A certified public accountant and a lawyer, Jerry Pluard of Barrington spent 25 years in the insurance industry. He, like a lot of other consumers, didn’t realize that the contents of a safe-deposit box weren’t insured by banks or the FDIC in the ca...

Chef Alain Roby, owner of All Chocolate Kitchen in Geneva, has a flair for breaking world records and creating beautiful pastries. But the Paris native is driven not by his love of chocolate and cooking, but from a traumatic experience. While servin...

Naperville resident Jai Shekhawat, 49, has established a tradition by enjoying his town’s Ribfest with co-workers. The Fourth of July celebration has come to mean more to this native of India, who also has lived in other cities including Moscow...

LONDON — Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering “God save the queen!” greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday on the last of four days of Diamond Jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne. Poignantly, the queen was ...

LONDON — Elton John sang “I’m Still Standing,” Stevie Wonder crooned “Isn’t She Lovely,” and Paul McCartney sent “All My Loving” as musical royalty celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s 60-year reign with a concert outside Buckingham Palace on Monday. But...

When you step back and remember some of the DuPage County residents who lost their lives in 2011, you can't help but marvel at how much some of them accomplished and to ache at the thought of how much others could have done, given just a little more...

Editor's note: This is another in a series of occasional stories about the epidemic of distracted driving and efforts to curb it. As a senior account manager in charge of 35 corporate clients and up to 10,000 vehicles, Daniel Chengary's trusty ...

New public safety radios in Aurora and Naperville malfunctioned almost 800 times between Dec. 1 and March 16, sometimes in dire police and fire situations when ineffective communication may have put lives at risk. Authorities in both cities have bee...

Glance over your shoulder at the complicated year that was 2010 in DuPage County and it's difficult to find one moment, one event that sums the whole thing up. Where is the common bond, the string that ties it all together? There were unspeakable tr...