There we were, enjoying our summer, when we got blindsided. Citing an updated study out of Boston examining 202 brains of deceased former football players, in July the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 87 percent exhibited the deg...

Posing for his senior picture in his Wheaton Warrenville South High School football uniform, Jeffrey Williams stayed true to form. He didn't smile at the camera. Instead, the teen raised his right eyebrow, giving a spot-on impression of his favorite...

It's the end of the Upstate Eight as we know it, and most feel fine. This marks the final season before conference tectonics shift yet again, reshaping the local football landscape in general and the Upstate Eight Conference in particular. Following...

Once more unto the breach... DuPage Valley Conference football may not be as poetic as Shakespeare's Henry V, but for decades it's epitomized excellence on the gridiron. It comes to an end after this season, at least in the form we've come to know a...

Oh...you again? Welcome back, all you fine football friends! Glad you could join me for another season of Eyes on Five — the weekly column (in every Wednesday's Daily Herald from here on out) discussing the pertinent issues facing DuPage County's 28...

Naperville City Council member Patty Gustin is setting her sights on a higher level of government after announcing Tuesday she will seek a seat on the DuPage County Board. Gustin, who was elected to the city council in 2015, plans to run as a Repub...

College of DuPage student Cullen Dobbs has been accepted to Georgetown University through the prestigious Georgetown Preferred Consideration Program. The Warrenville resident was recommended for the program by former Associate Vice President of Acad...