East Dundee
-
Alice Gustafon celebrates its 50thSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Mark Allen was a third-grade student when Batavia's Alice Gustafson School opened in 1957. Since then, four additions have been built at the southwest side elementary sc...
-
A day to honor 'tradition of seeking freedom and celebrating it'Sep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Why should Americans care about Mexican Independence Day? It was a question that Federal Judge Manuel Barbosa asked an audience of 30 people gathered Sunday to celebrate...
-
St. James parishioners to go country for annual fundraiserSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - This Saturday, St. James Episcopal Church, a lovely edifice that looks as if it could be a setting for a Jane Austen novel, will be transformed for an old-fashioned hoed...
-
Heritage, tradition proudly paradedSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Lazaro Contreras played the violin with five other members of Mariachi Tecalitlan while dressed in a festive cowboy outfit during West Chicago's Mexican Independence Day...
-
Energy-filled Catholic movement growing in numbersSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - With his eyes closed and arms outstretched, Mauricio Mendoza is deep in prayer. The Elgin resident speaks softly in an unrecognizable language. His body shake...
-
Hillary's high school pals rallySep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - In the mid-'60s, they voted her Most Likely to Succeed. These days -- their hair a little grayer, the stakes a little higher but their faith in their high school classma...
-
Campton Hills hosts community festivalSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Campton Hills is Kane County's newest municipality, and Saturday became home to the county's newest community festival. The inaugural Campton Hills Heritage Farm Fest ca...
-
Hanover Park -- budding arts enclave?Sep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Hanover Park may never be an art colony like Sundance, Utah, or Taos, N.M., but it is becoming a gathering place for a budding art community. For two years, area artists...
-
Colbert, Trojans nab second at D-CSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Glenbard West's Shane Bryant didn't play his best golf on Saturday. As a team, Glenbard West did. Bryant, who had shot a 68 two years ago at the Dundee-Crown Charger Cla...
-
Payton fundraiser a real rushSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Steve Nusser grew up watching Walter Payton set the record for career rushing yards -- 16,726 -- during his days with the Chicago Bears. On Saturday, the 38-year-old Nus...