Wayne Baker

A grant program to help downtown businesses improve the look of their buildings has proved so popular that it ran out of funds before the budget year began. As a...

The blowing dust, heavy construction equipment and lane closures returning to Illinois Highway 38 this week are nothing new to the downtown business community. Three years ago when the state...

Wesley Hogarth, a 17-year-old senior at Crystal Lake Central High School, died Wednesday in a weather-related accident on Illinois Highway 31. Hogarth, who was a member of the school weightlifting...

Thanks in part to the controversy over development of St. Charles' east side, the city has revived negotiations with its neighbor to the north over the ultimate border between the...

The skies over the city's Swedish Days summer festival will not be quite as colorful as last year's now that the chamber of commerce has canceled the hot-air balloon races....

Police will increase patrols and the city will add stop signs in a northeast side neighborhood in an attempt to address residents' concerns over speeding motorists cutting through the subdivision....

Kent Shodeen this week unveiled plans for his third major redevelopment project in the downtown area, and the initial response was favorable. The proposed project, called, for now, the North...

Police fished a suspect out of the Fox River this week after the man jumped in allegedly to avert being arrested on warrants issued by three counties. Scott A. Kloth,...

Aldermen expressed reluctance this week to grant a school district request to tear up the parkways surrounding Geneva High School to make room for additional on-street parking spaces. But the...

Officials this week endorsed the concept of building a major east-west collector road in the still-undeveloped area southeast of town, but stopped short of saying where the new main road...