Wayne Baker

Single-family homes and townhouses are being planned for a 57-acre property on the city's west side after aldermen rejected a Plan Commission recommendation to zone the tract for office/research use....

A bank established a tax-exempt account this week for collecting donations to help buy drywall and building supplies to repair flood damage in St. Charles, Mo. The Fox Valley Bank's...

Friends of a Batavia man who drowned Memorial Day at the Geneva Dam are proposing to string a cable across the Fox River just before the spill to serve as...

A 500-gallon underground tank believed to contain old, unused heating oil should be removed before the end of the month from an alley behind several downtown buildings, city officials said....

The city is looking for at least seven conservation-minded volunteers to serve on the newly created Historic Preservation Commission. The advisory body's first tasks will be the designation of a...

What should have been a simple matter of approving a $5,000 expense turned into a split vote as some veteran aldermen and Mayor Fred Norris accused each other of having...

After complaints from one resident that a neighborhood block party was too loud and was too late at night, city officials are considering an ordinance regulating such festivities. Ald. Jack...

Resident boaters will have to pay $20 a year while their out-of-town counterparts will pay twice that much to launch their vessels at the city's Stevens Street ramp. As promised,...

Bill Pierson began competing in chili cook-offs around the Midwest in 1986 because he felt his beef-and-bean brew was a notch better than the rest. Now, seven years later, the...

A race is on with West Chicago over which municipality will be the first to annex lucrative farm land west of Kautz Road. The fate of about 1,000 acres has...