The looks on the kids’ faces at the Wallace/Petrolane Boys & Girls Club gymnasium in Long Beach made all the hard work worthwhile during the annual Let’s Play Ball drive. There were smiles all around ...

Long Beach restaurateur John Morris knows what it’s like to grow up poor and just scrape by as a kid. He grew up in Windes, an industrial town once called “the dirtiest town” in England because of its ...

Heavy rains forced the last-minute cancellation of Saturday’s Grayslake Summerfest parade, but some in attendance still managed to have a ball, or two. At the corner of Whitney Street and Center ...