Kevin Lynch

Sidestepping the voter discontent that felled most of the statewide ticket, Republicans in DuPage County appear to have swept local offices Tuesday and elected the first Hispanic to the County...

Preliminary results of an autopsy performed on a 77-year-old Addison man indicate he died of heart disease before his body was burned in an apartment fire, the DuPage County coroner's...

DuPage County Board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom this week tore into the DuPage Airport Authority Board, insisting it stop using taxpayer dollars for anything except paying off debt. After years of...

An Aurora woman was killed Monday when her vehicle ran a red light and collided with a semitrailer tractor at Broadway and New York Street. Rosa Pelayo, 21, of the...

Police were searching Monday for a hit-and-run driver who critically injured a boy Sunday in a St. Charles parking lot. The boy, Matt Wilcox, 9, of St. Charles, was attending...

A police officer who claims the Westmont Police Department refused to hire him because he has HIV has sued the village in a case that reverses the usual concerns about...

A new student center at Wheaton College will be named for 1991 alumnus Todd Beamer, who exclaimed "Let's roll!" moments before his hijacked plane crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside on...

Investigators were trying to determine Thursday what caused a fiery, single-vehicle crash that killed a Westmont truck driver on Interstate Highway 80 in Iowa. Dimo D. Dimov, 24, was westbound...

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an accidental fire that killed a 54-year-old Geneva woman in her bed over the weekend. Susan Porretto was pronounced dead Friday after...

A Batavia woman was killed in a car crash when she ran a stop sign in Kaneville Township over the holiday weekend, a Kane County sheriff's spokesman said. Mercedes Peterson,...