Amateur radio club meets tonight The York Radio Club will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Elmhurst Fire Department training facility, 910 N. Addison Ave. This month's meeting will include a discussion about how to use the most common radio features. The...

We have one governor (Blagojevich) who wants to sell everything (lottery, tollway, Thompson Center and tollway building). We have an ex- governor (Thompson) who wants to buy things (Cubs' Wrigley Field) for something called the Illinois Sports Auth...

Des Plaines • Thieves stole a light blue 1998 Ford F150 pickup truck containing construction tools between midnight and 7:30 a.m. March 16 off the driveway at a house on the 900 block of Ingram Place, police said. A value estimate was not available....

More than 5,000 rainbow trout are being added to three DuPage County Forest Preserve lakes in preparation for the April 5 start of trout season. Many of the fish arrived Thursday, but another batch is expected Monday at Silver Lake in Warrenville's...

WOOD DALE -- AAR announced Monday it has been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Army for the repair and overhaul of a key control component on the CH-47 helicopter, valued at $25 million. The work will be performed by AAR Aircraft Component S...

• Submit events at least two weeks in advance to Melynda Findlay via e-mail to mfindlay@dailyherald.com or by fax, (630) 955-0895. Ongoing • The People's Resource Center, 201 S. Naperville Road, Wheaton, is in desperate need of nonperishable items f...

I read the article about Westfield Old Orchard's plan to implement a ban on smoking in outdoor areas. OUTDOOR AREAS? Are they kidding? Isn't this a place where soccer moms drive up in gas-guzzling pollution-spewing SUVs? This is the plan for providi...

The paid-on-call firefighters of the Bartlett Fire Protection District have backed off an earlier push to unionize. Last month, 29 out of the district's 40 paid-on-call personnel petitioned Teamsters Local 330 for union representation -- more than t...

Following a confrontation over the weekend where a man wielding knives was shot and killed by officers, Rolling Meadows Police Chief Steve Williams said Wednesday he is confident his department acted appropriately. Michael Chybicki, 44, of Lake in t...