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Annual run celebrates Jeanine Nicarico’s spirit — and love of reading

May 16, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Jeanine Nicarico had come to love books. A fondness for puppies, horses, baking, gardening and make-believe came first. She struggled a bit with reading, but in the fourth and fifth...

Freshly picked strawberries are included in the lineup of spring goods headed for local farmers markets in the coming days.

Market time heads outside in Naperville this week

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

It's been 25 years since community activist Jane Sindt resurrected the open-air market concept spotlighting freshly grown goods in Naperville. It happened in the midst of a period when the...

Little Friends site sees electrical near-miss

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

For about a decade, something just wasn't quite right with the electrical system at Bridge High School. One of three alternative schools operated by Naperville-based Little Friends Inc., the facility...

The bus lanes at the Route 59 Metra commuter station will contain Greyhound buses four times every day, under a proposal from the carrier that will go before the Naperville City Council Tuesday.

Greyhound planning route through north Naperville

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

A new daily Greyhound bus route running between Chicago and Davenport, Iowa, via Interstate 88 is being planned with a stop at Naperville's Route 59 Metra commuter train station. City...

The Dick Tracy statue on Naperville's River Walk.

Dick Tracy sculpture on the move

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

One of the nation's top detectives – at least in the comics realm – is up for reassignment. It's not desk duty, though. And he'll be back on the case...

A tasting flight is featured in this file photo from Solemn Oath.

New good works are brewing for Ribfest

June 15, 2018 at 5:04 p.m.

"I always wished I liked beer," my benevolent grandmother, whom we called Gam, would say now and then, her face wearing an expression both wistful and apologetic. "It's such a...

Naperville resident Dawn Saviano-Kahn was among the local artists putting their contributions into downtown Naperville stores Thursday for Bridge Communities' second annual Chair Affair fundraiser.

Chairs exhibited in Naperville for Bridge Communities fundraiser

May 22, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

Carol Graves knows exactly when she became involved in the Affair. "Well, my garbage disposer went out," the artist from the east side of Aurora said recently. Graves, whose family...

Ceremony to honor Naperville’s first black woman resident

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

When Daniel Weaver penned a letter from behind the Civil War's front lines to his friend Hannah Ditzler back in his hometown of Naperville, it described an encounter he and...

North Central ready to start science center

May 16, 2019 at 4:51 a.m.

A city block in downtown Naperville will soon begin its transformation from the feel of a residential neighborhood to that of a cutting-edge empirical epicenter. Once commencement exercises have taken...

Game of knowns: Tick! Ack! No!

June 15, 2018 at 5:38 p.m.

It's time for another brisk round of Full Disclosure. Here goes: Olive's been having a party. In her fur. The only guests showing up are revolting, eight-legged, disease-carrying parasites. Yeah,...

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