The Geneva Public Library District board is inclined to go back to the beginning in considering whether to build a new library, remodel the 105-year-old current one or do nothing, judging by a discussion Thursday night. The special meeting was held ...

A judge has ruled that the Geneva Public Library's attempt to annex land in Blackberry Township, west of the Mill Creek subdivision, is invalid. McHenry County Chief Judge Michael Sullivan also ruled, in the same opinion issued last Thursday, that t...

The former Cetron factory on Richards Street won't be the site of a new Geneva Public Library. The library board voted 6-0 Saturday to drop the purchase, which it had approved in September 2010. “It was hard,” library board President Esther Steel sa...

Marce Van Glabek's idea for the Pottawatomie Garden Club to hold a plant sale fundraiser this month sounded good on paper. But rather than “mum,” it had “dud” written all over it when plans to conduct the sale at the St. Charles Municipal Center con...

As towns along the Fox River have heightened their efforts to revitalize their shorelines and nearby downtowns, here are the main completed projects and some still in the planning stage. Aurora Completed: The Music Garden at RiverEdge Park, an amphi...

Comedy and confusion reign supreme in this year's Shakespeare in the Park performance in Geneva. The Midsummer Theater Troupe will perform “The Comedy of Errors” at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, on the stage at Island Park. Admission to Shakespeare in t...

Transit riders who take Pace or the CTA can learn at a number of upcoming hearings about the new Ventra fare system, which will be instituted for all passengers in September. The program allows riders to use a card to board trains and buses on eithe...

Most suburbs are a product of urban growth that spread from Chicago, but the history of towns along the Fox River is much different. Municipalities such as Aurora and Elgin were born not as suburbs but as independent towns that boomed in the late 18...

St. Charles, IL, June 25, 2013 – The neXt Gallery Celebrates Ēkwabet's 25th Birthday – a program of the St Charles Arts Council – presents “The Making of Ēkwabet” by sculptor Guy J. Bellaver at the gallery on Sunday, June 30th at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Bel...

Residents, merchants and aldermen have gone through a fair amount of hand-wringing regarding the facelift along North River Street and the current work taking place along Wilson Street in downtown Batavia. A quick visit to the farmers market on Rive...