The first community forum on the future of the Jefferson Early Childhood Center drew both advocates for a new facility and neighbors concerned about the scope of a potential project at the Wheaton site. Roughly two dozen people attended the forum Mo...

More than two dozen new gravestones will be dedicated Saturday, Sept. 1, at the nearly 160-year-old St. Stephen Cemetery on the Carol Stream-Wheaton border. The ceremony will be at 1 p.m. at the cemetery that traces its origin to the former German f...

Northwestern bills itself as Chicago’s Big Ten team. So it’s appropriate for this year’s squad to have a local flavor. Three suburban natives earned starting spots on the offensive line during summer camp and will be on the field when the Wildcats o...

Hundreds of trees have been removed from the site of a long-vacant corporate training center along Warrenville Road in Lisle to make room for a $35 million technical school. Universal Technical Institute is planning to build a 185,000-square-foot fa...

Delays at two major intersections along the $52.5 million Butterfield Road widening project are expected to last until late fall, officials said. Traffic from the project has been clogging the major arteries around the Danada shopping centers in Whe...

The future of the Jefferson Early Childhood Center and other facilities in Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 could begin to take shape this week at a series of community forums. All four sessions will be held at Jefferson, a building opened in ...

For a group of artists that meet in west suburban Lisle, a passion for handmade papermaking and a need for continued sources of learning and friendship led to the creation of the Book and Paper Arts Guild. Their exhibit, on display at Gallery 200, ...

Barely an hour into the second day of the Glen Ellyn Festival of the Arts, organizers were ready to call off the event due to bursts of rain making it hard for artists to keep their works safe and drawing few spectators. Sponsored by the Glen Ellyn ...