Lynn Van Matre

Long left-turn backups at York Road and 22nd Street should be alleviated by a roadway expansion and reconstruction project scheduled to begin this month. But motorists can expect traffic delays...

Monday to a full-scale court battle over construction of a proposed wellness center near Lyman Woods Forest Preserve. Last month the Downers Grove Park District Board of Commissioners voted 4-1...

About one dozen Wheaton North High School students and recent graduates staged a rally Thursday in support of a tenured English teacher who was fired in June for alleged sexual...

For visitors with disabilities, the Morton Arboretum offers paved trails, a wheelchair loan service and a fragrance garden for the visually impaired. But when arboretum staff member Kate Desulis saw...

A local preservation group seeking to restore the former home of folk artist Sheldon Peck and turn it into a museum has received a $50,000 matching grant from the Illinois...

When the U.S. wheelchair boccia team takes the court next month at an international competition in Nottingham, England, DuPage County will be well represented. Naperville resident Timothy "T.J." Hawker, 17,...

You could find everything from used fish tanks to old books and a set of bedroom furniture at Rikk and Cheryl Mauzer's garage sale on Saturday, but it was the...

The Garfield Farm Museum has received a $4,700 matching grant for its native-plant management programs. The grant, recently awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, must be matched with...

Family fun will be afoot from dawn to dusk June 21 and from noon until early evening June 22 at the Morton Arboretum, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary year...

For contemporary homemakers, putting butter on the family table is a simple matter of cruising the supermarket dairy case for the brand of choice. For many DuPage County farm wives...