Jake Griffin
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Clerk who modernized DuPage County courts diesJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - John Cockrell liked to work, but he was always looking for a way to make the work easier. "He wanted to take the work out of work," former DuPage County Circuit Clerk Jo...
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Crafters converge for annual Oak Brook eventJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - More than 100 artisans are staged throughout Oakbrook Center this weekend exhibiting and selling their work as part of the shopping center's Fine Craft Exhibition and Sa...
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Naperville art show lures buyersJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Some folks in Pat McGuinn's life are going to be receiving some pretty snappy gifts this year. The Naperville woman's hands were full Saturday after an hour and a half o...
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Muslim prayer center, residents collide near West ChicagoJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Kevin Wiley has been waiting for Monday for two years. That's the day when DuPage County's Zoning Board of Appeals opens a hearing into a proposal to convert a house at ...
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Pro turns medic when golfer has heart attack at Wood Dale courseJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Bryan Lindstrom never envisioned using a golf cart as an ambulance. "We actually fix the carts to make them slower so they won't be that dangerous," the assistant golf p...
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Downers Grove dumps mayors groupJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Downers Grove officials put an end to months of strife between the village and the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference by bailing from the organization. The village co...
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Endangered prairie orchid a 'hidden treasure'Jul 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Tiny white ghosts flutter in the breeze. No one is really supposed to know where the endangered Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchids are except the scores of botanists and hu...
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Ribbers unhappy with geography of RibfestJul 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Ribfest is experiencing growing pains. Well, truth be told, it's apparently the ribbers at the Naperville Exchange Club's annual Fourth of July weekend festival that are...
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DuPage, western Cook County United Way chapters mergeJul 02, 2010 11:00 pm - A bevy of suburban United Way branches have merged to create a chapter that will serve more than 65 communities in DuPage and western Cook counties. Christine Lewis, who...
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Judge suspends Addison murder trial after witness refuses to testifyJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Antonio Aguilar Jr.'s murder trial came to an abrupt halt Wednesday when the man DuPage County prosecutors say was Aguilar's accomplice in the 2007 shooting at an Addiso...