Joanne Von Alroth

Skipping school could get students a hefty fine. Under the village's new truancy ordinance, anyone under 18 years old who is enrolled in school but found in the village when...

Members of the village's four commissions will get raises this year, trustees said last week. The raises followed a request by the village's Cable Commission to raise members' salaries to...

For years, baseball teams, church groups and youth organizations have held raffles in the village to help fund their various all-American activities. By the end of the month, their efforts...

After months of discussions, parks commissioners and area residents hope a new plan to develop baseball fields without condemning properties passes muster with trustees. Village officials said last week they...

After a 13-year battle, the final chapter has been written to the history of a local adult bookstore. Ogden Books, 218 Ogden Ave., opened in 1981, and was quickly raided...

Trustees have set a June 1 deadline for resumes from residents interested in filling the vacant seat on the Village Board left by the late Trustee Dick Busse. Busse, who...

The village will join other area communities in a multi-jurisdictional police investigative team, trustees have said. Willowbrook will join Bolingbrook, Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Lemont, Lisle, Naperville, Warrenville and...

Officials said last week they will reconsider a refusal to place a stop sign at Bolson Drive and Stonewall Avenue in the wake of the death of a 14-year-old bicyclist....

It isn't that business people in the village don't want friendly crowds in front of their stores. But a new loitering ordinance should help shopkeepers keep troublemakers away, officials said...

Drivers might get the green light to press a little harder on the accelerator along 39th Street from Highland to Fairview Avenues, officials said last week. Village officials are expected...