Bill Mego

Mego: Away in this manger, no crib for a bed, a baby was born and did lay his head

December 20, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

Editor’s note: Columnist Bill Mego wrote for the Naperville Sun from 1988 until his death in 2017. Today, in honor of the holiday and of Bill, we reprise one of...

Column: Naperville’s response to Charlottesville makes me glad I live here

June 3, 2018 at 3:26 a.m.

I decided to pursue my advanced degrees in the American southeast because the schools were excellent and I could actually afford to attend them. That's how I ended up first...

Then-Naperville Mayor George Pradel, Mary Locher and artist Dick Locher celebrate the 2013 dedication of a statue of Joseph Naper, which Locher designed. Naper founded the city in 1831.

Column: Locher an amazing man who deserves to be remembered

June 3, 2018 at 5:15 a.m.

Every now and then a man comes along who seems consumed with life, who seems to have at least two things going all the time and yet he's able to...

Column: Schools should not be dictating start and end of summer

June 3, 2018 at 6:56 a.m.

Maybe it's just because I'm getting older. You can blame a lot of things on that. Or maybe it's because I'm slowly recovering from a weird disorder that has kept...

Column: How land around train station gets developed a test of who we are

June 3, 2018 at 8:46 a.m.

Naperville's downtown Metra station is awkwardly situated. That's not particularly uncommon for Metra stations, but it does create a lot of difficulties, traffic- and otherwise. At certain times of day,...

Mego: Best reason to preserve old Nichols Library? Because we like it

June 3, 2018 at 10:31 a.m.

I used to have an old van I drove until the main bearing finally gave out after hundreds of thousands of miles. It wasn't a particularly good van, but I...

Amazon fulfillment centers, such as the one that opened in Romeoville in June, are making it easy for people to skip going to stores and simply shop online, columnist Bill Mego says.

Mego: Stores leading to their own demise with bad service, no inventory

June 3, 2018 at 12:13 p.m.

This Sunday marks the 22nd anniversary of the day Amazon sold its first book. If you're curious, that book was "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental...

Mego: Something special about enjoying warm summer nights with family, friends

June 3, 2018 at 3:06 p.m.

I think these are the most valuable days of the year. In the daytime it's warm and quiet and sometimes so still that the only things moving are those little...

The Fourth of July commemorates the day on which the wording of the Declaration of Independence was approved and the president of the Second Continental Congress, John Hancock, signed the document.

Mego: July 4 should be a reminder to us — and the city — to live up to our ideals

June 3, 2018 at 4:35 p.m.

This Sunday marks the halfway point in the year 2017. It is also, of course, the day on which the Second Continental Congress approved the resolution by Richard Henry Lee...

Mego: Making old library part of new building ‘ghoulish’; let it die with dignity

June 3, 2018 at 6:29 p.m.

I'm probably as nostalgic as anyone about the old Nichols Library on Washington Street. When my family first moved to town, it became a sanctuary for me. The culture of...

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