A few dozen suburban men were among the roughly 5,000 Boy Scout officials in the U.S. who were barred from Scouting between 1959 and 1985 because they were either suspected of or charged with sexually abusing boys under their supervision. The Daily...

Familiar opponents are squaring off in the race to determine who will represent DuPage County Forest Preserve District 1. But Democrat Michael Braun, who lost to Republican incumbent Marsha Murphy during the 2008 general election, insists he’s doing...

As thousands of pages of confidential Boy Scouts files regarding past sexual abuse were made public Thursday, representatives of suburban Scouting councils stressed that a lot has changed with the organization's policies on youth protection. The 14,...

The Democratic challenger to a six-year Republican incumbent in the state legislature is blaming the state’s fiscal woes on politicians in Springfield who she argues have been there too long. Her opponent says he’s tried to work on solutions, but hi...

With all DuPage County Board seats up for election Nov. 6, many hopefuls differ on whether board members’ annual $50,000 salaries and publicly funded pensions are appropriate. But in District 1, the three Republicans and three Democrats running for ...