Wayne Baker

Business and downtown leaders will decide this week whether to hire an independent consultant to study the impact of the state's $6.1 reconstruction plan for Illinois Highway 64. Renee Hanlon,...

After a holiday season in which Christmas tree lots were about as common as they are in July, city planners are studying a revision to existing rules that would make...

A key Kane County Board committee on Thursday rejected for the second time in as many weeks a Geneva-sponsored compromise plan for expanding Settler's Hill Landfill. Instead, the Executive Committee...

Aldermen indicated their willingness to support a police plan to start a canine patrol unit, if limits are placed on use of the dog and some funding comes from private...

A 24-year-old hotel employee who reported last month that he had been beaten and robbed at gunpoint while on a night shift was charged with faking the incident and stealing...

The chairman of the City Council's Public Safety Committee said he opposes a Police Department plan to start a canine patrol unit and will ask his panel to recommend against...

People walking dogs had better be prepared to demonstrate they can and will pick up their pets' excrement or face a fine under an ordinance adopted last week by the...

City officials have endorsed a developer's plan to upgrade the railroad crossing at Raddant Road on the Burlington Northern line east of downtown. The upgrade is required under an agreement...

With snow flurries and freezing temperatures outside, officials had their minds on the warm, muggy days of late spring and early summer. The council unanimously approved a two-year contract last...

Mayor Fred Norris is asking state, county and local transportation planners to dust off a familiar but unpopular plan to redesignate Randall Road as Illinois Highway 31. Although the idea...