Denise Linke

A $66,000 impact fee payout does not lessen Elburn's Town and Country Library's need for a tax rate increase, Director Mary Lynn Alms said this week. The library was one...

North Aurora resident Rebecca Kohles describes her first novel as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"--with horses. And she said she literally dreamed up the plot of "The Ghosts of Grand Detour."...

When the first Metra train pulls out of the new Elburn stop at 4:48 a.m. Monday, Village President James Willey won't be on it. "I'm hearing rumors about people in...

The Batavia Public Works Department is building Kane County's first state-recognized "green fleet," Public Works Director Gary Larsen told the City Council last week. Downers Grove and the DuPage County...

Residents in southeast Elburn will need a permit sticker to park on the street in their neighborhood after the Metra train station opens Jan. 23. The Police Department mailed applications...

The City Council this week approved Goodrich Quality Theater's plan to convert several existing theaters at the Randall 16 cinema at North Randall Road and McKee Street into an IMAX...

The Batavia City Council this week approved the design of the new Donovan Bridge, choosing stone pavers over bricks on the sidewalks and dark bronze for the lights, decorative railings...

The Batavia City Council has postponed voting on a proposal to let restaurants serve liquor within 100 feet of a church, school, hospital or nursing home after hearing objections from...

Residents and businesses will pay 5 percent more for electricity beginning Feb. 1, the City Council decided this week. "We have several major electrical projects coming up in the next...

Philip Trandel's eyes grew wide with excitement when the Polar Express chugged into the Blackhawk Station in the Duerr Forest Preserve recently in South Elgin. The Aurora 4-year-old eagerly boarded...