Lynn Van Matre

Kerouac's Last Dream (Red House/Appleseed) (star) (star) (star) (star) Veteran folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott has never been one to worry about coming up with new material. For more than...

With Christmas just weeks away, DuPage County's largest holiday assistance program for low-income families has sent out an SOS to would-be Santas. The non-profit People's Resource Center, sponsors of the...

Ed Haley: Forked Deer (Rounder) Compiled primarily from home recordings made in the mid-1940s, this double CD at times suffers from poor sound quality and surface noise, but the fiddling...

Shortly after launching its annual Holiday Caring Appeal fund drive, the Naperville Humane Society has received one of its most unusual donations ever: a $50 bill from a 10-year-old boy....

A massage parlor in a strip mall in an unincorporated area near Wheaton apparently is out of business again. Brianna's, 26 W 227 Geneva Rd., has been ordered by a...

Nearby forest preserves teem with opossums, raccoons and other photogenic wildlife, but veteran Naperville nature photographer Jack Brennan prefers to shoot much bigger beasts. And he is willing to range...

To the chagrin of prosecutors and the cheers of her supporters on both sides of the Atlantic, British au pair Louise Woodward walked out of court a free woman on...

Jay McSweeney had just turned 17 and his girlfriend was 16 when an unplanned pregnancy plunged them into parenthood earlier this year. The teens' future together is uncertain, but Jay's...

Ed Haley: Forked Deer (Rounder) Compiled primarily from home recordings made in the mid-1940s, this double CD at times suffers from poor sound quality and surface noise, but the fiddling...

When it comes to Hinsdale history, Mary Sterling wrote the book. Actually, make that three books. Sterling, a longtime Hinsdale Historical Society volunteer, recently finished "Hinsdale Historic Homes," a two-volume...