DuPage County briefs

Candidate yanked from ballot

A candidate for the Carol Stream Public Library board was removed from the ballot Monday after the village's electoral board determined Linda Jo T. DeRango was not allowed to run for two open spots. DeRango filed for the open 4-year term as well as a 2-year term. Although objections were filed for four other petitions, Michael Wade, Dominick Jeffrey, Joshua Jeffrey and David DeRango are still on the ballot, along with Mary Hudspeath, Robert Douglas, Leslie Shambo and Thomas Arends, who are running for four open 4-year spots. James Bailey was the other person running for the two-year spot, which is now uncontested.

Bloomingdale chamber award

Bloomingdale Area Women in Business will sponsor its first awards dinner at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at Jameson's Charhouse, 94 Stratford Drive. The group will present Mary Ellen Johnson with its first Georgene Geils Award. In addition to being Mayor Bob Iden's secretary, Johnson is publisher of the Village Almanac, the author of "Images of America: Bloomingdale" and a 10-year member of the Bloomingdale Historical Society. The cost is $35 for members and $45 for others. For details, call (630) 980-9082.

Astronomy tickets on sale

Tickets are on sale through Feb. 15 for the Illinois Math and Science Academy's "IMSA - A Shining Star" event from 6 to 9 p.m. March 5 at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. The event features IMSA alumnus Scott Gaudi, who received worldwide media attention for leading a team of 69 international astronomers in discovering a solar system similar to our own. Tickets are $250 a person. For details, visit imsa.edu/giving, call (630) 907-5989 or e-mail jspuehler@imsa.edu. Proceeds benefit the IMSA Fund for Advancement of Education and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.