Flooded Valley View owners caught in a bind
Two weeks after what Valley View residents in unincorporated Glen Ellyn describe as the worst flood event "ever," Tracy and Jerry Roberts and their three children have been living out...
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Uncontested newcomers slide onto D89 board
Two newcomers are getting a free pass onto the board in Community Consolidated School District 89, where all four slots on the April ballot are uncontested. Jeff Hume, who has...
PTAs get creative with fundraising
When Vanessa O'Brien, co-president of the Parent Teachers Advisory at Emerson Elementary School in Wheaton, heard how much money other schools had raised by hosting a one-day Run-A-Thon, she figured...
Student photos grace coffeehouse walls
When Colleen Doyle saw empty walls at Caribou Coffee in Glen Ellyn last month, she immediately sensed an opportunity for her photography students. Within a few minutes, Doyle, an art...
Lure of free manicures brings women in for mammograms
When it came to figuring out what would entice more women to come in for mammograms, administrators at Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines took their cue from a...
Lure of free manicures brings women in for mammograms
When it came to figuring out what would entice more women to come in for mammograms, administrators at Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines took their cue from a...
For some, the ’08 flood still hasn’t ended
The wettest year in recorded Chicago history, 2008, saw flooded basements across the area. Street closures were common, along with weather warnings that spelled calamity on a seemingly daily basis....
Casino to break ground Friday
After more than a decade of political wrangling, court battles and delays, work was slated to begin Friday in Des Plaines on the site of a casino, the 10th and...
Casino tells Des Plaines it can bet on a green rating
A new $1 billion casino in Des Plaines could be open by September 2011 and rolling in green — and not just cold hard cash. The casino could be the...
Adoptive father testifies about boy’s tantrums
In a barely audible voice, Dino Pavlis described Thursday how the dream of adopting two Russian children became a horror story, unfolding in his 900-square-foot Schaumburg apartment and ending with...