The Holiday Food Drive to fill the shelves at the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry begins Friday.

The Kamme-O-Circus, a multi-room circus-oriented haunted house that includes 10 interactive displays, live performers, animatronics and more, is a tradition in the front yard of a home on the 1100 block of Liberty Drive in Elburn.

The Disney title will play through the holidays and into January in Aurora, the longest run yet for Paramount’s Broadway Series.

St. Charles North moves up behind Oswego in top spot, while Waubonsie Valley joins rankings.

First-round football pairings by Illinois High School Association for Southland and Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County.

The event will include the author, Scott Ascher, a friend and business partner of the legendary Chicago Bears star, who wrote “Walter Payton: Roundhouse Philosopher.”

Kane County Coroner Rob Russell said a “common-sense theory” supported by records and “good reason” is that the teen was the victim of grave robbing.

The race for the Kane County Board seat in District 20 in the November election is between incumbent Demoract Cherryl Strathmann and Republican challenger Silvia Schrage.

In the upcoming Nov. 5 general election, Kane County voters will choose between Democratic incumbent Jamie Mosser and Republican challenger Andrew Sosnowski to serve as the county’s state’s attorney for the next four years.

Will County-based Other Side Investigations travels throughout the Midwest to look into reports of hauntings and other phenomena.