Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora welcomed the Rev. Tammy Scott as incoming pastor on Sunday, July 2. Rev. Scott is former lead pastor at Sugar Grove United Methodist Church. Effective July 1, she succeeded Rev. John Bell who is moving to L...

Sitting in a Spanish-language orientation session, Aurora University's first Latina president couldn't help but think back on her college experience. As a first-generation student whose family immigrated from El Salvador, Susana Rivera-Mills believe...

Highland Park anniversary Mass Christ Our Hope Parish in Highland Park will hold a Mass for Healing and Remembrance at 5 p.m. Saturday to mark the anniversary of the Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting. The Mass will be celebrated at the Im...

If you've ever marveled at a painting, a sculpture or another artistic creation and wondered how artists do what they do, head to the Indian Trails Public Library any Tuesday or Thursday afternoon through mid-July. There, in the first-floor space kn...

St. Charles Mayor Lora Vitek appointed Robert Gehm as Ward 3 alderperson and honored retiring Alderperson Todd Bancroft with a key to the city at the council meeting Monday night. Gehm is replacing Bancroft, who did not run for reelection but retain...

Saying Eva Liu "represented the best of our community," Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli offered the city's condolences to her family and called for a moment of silence at the start of Tuesday's city council meeting. Liu, 21, was killed on June 14 when...

While the father and twin sister of a 21-year-old Naperville woman killed when she was pushed off a steep mountain slope have traveled to Germany to retrieve her body, those who knew her here are mourning her loss. Eva Liu was remembered during serv...

BERLIN — Police in southern Germany are appealing for photos and videos taken by witnesses of an attack Thursday near a popular tourist site in which an American man is accused of killing a Naperville woman and injuring another Illinois woman by pus...

Tim Wyller has been hired as the principal for Mill Creek Elementary School to replace outgoing principal George Petmezas, who was promoted to Director of Learning and Teaching for Geneva Unit District 304, officials announced in a news release. Sho...

Wheaton Academy, a private Christian high school in West Chicago, held its 2023 commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 4, in the Edman Memorial Chapel at Wheaton College. The commencement speaker was attorney Bob Thomas, who served two decades on the...