Richard Blass, a former cop turned attorney from Elmhurst, appears to have won the four-way Republican race to challenge for a seat on the DuPage County Board in District 2. With 95 percent of precincts reporting, unofficial totals showed Blass, 47,...

Bensenville Park District officials are considering asking DuPage County to lift its nearly seven-year ban on video gambling. Some park commissioners say the district-owned White Pines Golf Course could get a significant revenue boost if video gambl...

Four Republicans are facing off in the March 15 primary for their party's nod in DuPage County Board District 2. Richard Blass of Elmhurst, Anna Manzo and Elaine Zannis of Oak Brook, and Zachary Wilson of Lombard, are competing for the right to fac...

A Downers Grove man who was a contract firefighter and paramedic in Westmont has been charged with possession of child pornography. Peter Woitovich, 25, of the 5700 block of South Walnut Avenue, is free after posting $30,000 bail. He appeared in bon...

A Westmont man was declared not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday in his 2014 vandalism of a Lombard synagogue. Judge George Bakalis issued his ruling less than a week after John White's bench trial, saying there was evidence White was not taking...

Most towns rely on property taxes to repay loans they take out for everything from new police stations to fixing roads. But how much towns have borrowed varies widely across the suburbs, from nearly $300 million in Rosemont to almost nothing in a ho...

Prosecutors aren't disputing that John White has mental health issues. But they point to his “fixation” on Jews and the stockpile of weapons found at his Westmont home after he was accused of vandalizing a Lombard synagogue. As testimony concluded M...

After surviving devastating injuries from being struck head-on by a drunken driver in 2012, Zach Jones knows the importance of both educating against impaired driving and encouraging blood donation. The 23-year-old Benedictine University graduate wi...