Lynn Van Matre

For the Bethlehem Center Food Bank, it has been a long and winding road to the pantry's current address at 600 Industrial Drive. Within 42 months, the privately funded, non-denominational...

Tuesday was "a tough day in DuPage" for school systems, said Community Consolidated District 181 Supt. David Hendrix, and most of his colleagues would agree. Voters defeated seven out of...

High-energy physics research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory would receive a modest boost in funding under the terms of the Clinton administration's budget request for fiscal year 1997. The proposed...

These are triumphant times for DuPage squirrels. Not long ago, an Elmhurst couple launched the first national fan club for the bushy-tailed rodents, and more than 200 squirrel lovers signed...

Spring Brook Nature Center is mourning the loss of one of its swans. Snowflake, who had called the nature center's Usher Park pond home since 1989, died last week at...

Many of their classmates at Elk Grove High School didn't share their sentiments, but Artur Orkisz and Mariusz Wrzosek were happy to be in school Monday. Around this time last...

By now, most people are familiar with the legal and moral ramifications of diversity in the workplace. But diversity also is a "bottom-line issue," said Bonnie Wood, executive director of...

As Kevin Adler sees it, llamas make practically perfect pets that fit right into the suburban lifestyle. "They're docile, they rarely smell and they are respectful of fencing and people,"...

Members of the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, an ad hoc environmental group in the village, acknowledge that the odds are against their crusade to save as open space a 33-acre...

As conference co-organizer Terri Carpenter tells it, the Zonta Conference on Domestic Violence scheduled for Saturday had its beginnings during a luncheon chat among friends. "Three of us were talking...