Wayne Baker

An 11-year-old Maple Park girl was killed and six other people were injured in a three-car accident on Randall Road, police said. Kelly Coppert of Pine Tree Drive was pronounced...

Officials are counting on the probability that 1,600 people have moved into the city in the last two years to increase the city's share of state tax revenue. The City...

The volunteer citizens group building the city's downtown riverwalk park will be at least $250,000 short for its 1994 construction program. The need for donations, with which the group is...

An Elgin developer is proposing to level the vacant Batavia Junior High School and replace it with 170,000 square feet of senior housing and retail space. Although other redevelopment proposals...

The City Council has signed an agreement with the state to begin preliminary design work and secondary engineering to realign the intersection of 3rd Street and Illinois Highway 31. The...

Mayor Jeff Schielke and City Attorney William McGrath are drafting a resolution to present to the City Council this month asking the Kane County Forest Preserve District to purchase property...

Officials have selected a Boston-area architect to design the multimillion-dollar expansion of the Police Department facilities. After closed-door interviews with three firms vying for the job, the City Council's Special...

Ten months after Renee Hanlon was hired to help spur downtown's economic revitalization, she has resigned to seek less frustrating pastures. Hanlon resigned last week as executive director of Friends...

Officials are studying plans to buy downtown properties, including some that have buildings on them, to serve as sites for additional off-street parking. The most likely proposal appears to be...

A 21-year Police Department veteran who retires officially Monday was named the city's 1993 Officer of the Year, becoming only the second person in the history of the agency to...