A suburban Republican lawmaker wants to send Illinois universities four months worth of state funding to try to ensure they open their doors for the next school year. The "stopgap" proposal from state Rep. Mike Fortner, a West Chicago Republican, ...

An Aurora post office could be named in honor of longtime resident Ken Christy if U.S. Rep. Bill Foster gets his way. Foster, a Naperville Democrat, has introduced a bill to designate the facility at 525 N. Broadway as the Kenneth M. Christy Post Of...

The clock is ticking. In less than a month, Kyle Manske will have thrown his last pitch as a collegiate baseball player. A 2012 graduate of St. Charles East, Manske is a senior member of the Aurora University baseball team. The left-hander currently...

Christopher Patterson's life was never just about Christopher Patterson and as family, friends and state leaders gathered Saturday to dedicate a sign renaming Route 31 in North Aurora in honor of the young soldier, his parents asked the crowd to rem...

Drivers passing through North Aurora will now be reminded of the sacrifice one of the town's residents made for this country. The renaming of Route 31 as "Spc. Christopher Patterson Memorial Highway" will be marked with a ceremony Saturday. The high...

Six Horticulture students represented College of DuPage and competed this year in 16 of the 28 events at the National Collegiate Landscape Competition (formerly Student Career Days) March 15 to 19 at Mississippi State University. As a team, the C...

It's a straight shot. The equivalent of two laps around an oval. No turns, nor a finish line. Unless, that is, Delaney Basala and Madison Romig used the sidewalk lines in front of their respective homes as starting and finishing lines. "We would run...

The McHenry County Historical Society caps its 30th annual Sampler Lecture Series with a little known slice of railroading history. In "The History of the Mexican Railroad Boxcar Communities in Chicago & the Midwest," speaker Antonio Delgado will di...

Robbin Dodson has been a teacher for nine years, but this is her first year with West Aurora School District 129. Dodson teaches English, language arts and reading and math intervention at Jefferson Middle School in Aurora. Dodson has plenty of expe...