Jeffrey Bils

Five children died of injuries they suffered in two unrelated fires Tuesday morning in Cicero and on Chicago's South Side. The Chicago fire appears to have been started by children...

For the second time this year, voters in Hinsdale Elementary School District 181 narrowly defeated a bond issue for a new middle school, and this time the margin increased. Two...

A discrimination lawsuit mushroomed into seven separate cases Wednesday, as a Wheaton teacher intensified her fight against the DuPage County school districts she alleges will not hire her because she...

All that rainwater with no place to go. When the heavens opened earlier this week, dumping a record amount of rain on parts of the Chicago area, stormwater management systems...

Dozens of DuPage County communities were drenched by a stubborn cloudburst that swamped the Chicago area Wednesday and Thursday. Aurora got the worst of it. The river that ordinarily flows...

In the 14 years God's Gym has been providing kids with an alternative to gangs, the place itself has earned a reputation in the Chicago area for its emphasis on...

A man who spent nearly eight years behind bars for a murder that someone else later confessed committing alone was released from prison last week after prosecutors agreed to drop...

Mayor Jim Carr has proclaimed that Memorial Day will be "Say Yes Day, a Day of Hope and Reconciliation." The proclamation, which is printed on the letterhead of the Second...

It starts in the morning with a blast from an alarm clock and continues non-stop until late at night, when you finally turn off the TV and go to bed,...

A Wheaton and Naperville law firm is promoting tennis matches featuring two of its attorneys to raise money for the DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation. Greene, Jones & Brisske will sponsor...