Hopefuls look to April vote
The good news for Naperville City Councilman Doug Krause was he survived the mayoral primary. The bad news was that he now must find a way to overtake popular three-term...
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First crash victim mourned
As more than 400 mourners looked on in silence, John and Brenda Merkel bent before an open casket Thursday to tearfully say their final goodbyes. Katie Merkel, 14, was one...
Drug raid stuns neighbors
From the curb, the small raised ranch just outside Naperville looks indistinguishable from the others on the quiet street--save for its inhabitant, a single, childless man in a neighborhood full...
Victim’s pleas went unheeded
Katie Merkel was desperate to leave a house party in west suburban Montgomery early Sunday. In the 15 minutes between 1:30 and 1:45 a.m., the Oswego High School freshman called...
Driver is cited in crash that hurt 3
A four-car crash snarled the morning commute in Naperville Thursday and sent three people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police. Naperville police said the crash at...
On the road to Soldier Field with team spirit–and colors
There are Bears fans, there are Bears fanatics, and then there are the Mike Baums of the world. For more than 20 years, Baum of Aurora has owned season tickets....
Schools face obstacle to building plan
Voters approved a $450 million plan to build 14 new schools in booming Oswego Community Unit School District 308, the largest school construction bond plan on the ballot in recent...
Source: Slaying looks like a professional hit
Authorities took away file boxes and computers Wednesday night from the plumbing company co-owned by slaying victim Gerald Dhamer, continuing their probe of a shotgun killing that looked like a...
Crashes kill 2 teenagers
Rainy weather and slick pavement may have contributed to unrelated suburban car crashes Thursday that killed two teenage drivers about the same time, 40 miles apart, authorities said. Hadessa A....
House page scandal puts Hastert’s foe in spotlight
Early in his quixotic campaign to unseat U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, John Laesch once scheduled a day of news conferences around the 14th Congressional District to discuss his energy...