Michael Martinez

Cheryl Blair of Wheaton says she knows her way around now when it comes to protesting governmental plans to improve roadways against the wishes of the residents of the neighborhoods...

The Park District is calling upon volunteers, school groups and service organizations to rake leaves from city parks beginning Oct. 24. The Park District is trying to save money on...

An underground colony of rats near a Naperville shopping center has alarmed neighborhood residents, but a city official said Thursday that a private exterminator has brought the problem under control....

The mother of 12-year-old Joey Chlopek said she was planning to move out of the Brighton Park neighborhood, where she feared street gangs and drugs would claim her son. On...

The gritty Humboldt Park neighborhood where Elizabeth Davis and her family moved two weeks ago is a dangerous place where street gangs hold sway, drugs are peddled openly on the...

Reacting to citizen demands in an advisory referendum last March for change in municipal government, the Naperville City Council has approved a binding vote that could alter the way some...

Gov. Jim Edgar`s call for the end of the state sharing income tax surcharge revenues with municipal governments in Illinois was received by Du Page officials much like the way...

The four men charged in a series of Hammond pipe bombings were portrayed by relatives Saturday as longtime friends who attended the same high school, played video games together and...

Acting on a tip Saturday afternoon, seven police officers from Harvey and Chicago cautiously searched the one-story house on Vine Avenue in the south suburb. They combed through the house...

For past generations of children, the beginning of the school day was symbolized by a warm, smiling, gray-haired figure waving a gleaming, golden school bell. But now, the beginning of...