Katlyn Smith
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Why the DuPage forest preserve board may ask voters for tax increaseJul 08, 2024 6:58 pm - DuPage County forest preserve commissioners are weighing whether to ask voters in November for a possible property tax increase to generate more than $17 million in addit...
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‘It gives you goose bumps’: 2,000 flags fly in Wheaton to welcome July FourthJun 29, 2024 4:23 pm - Volunteers on Saturday turned a Wheaton soccer field into a patriotic display of 2,000 American flags.
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Wheaton’s Northside Park to feature new pickleball courtsJun 28, 2024 4:18 pm - The pickleball phenomenon is growing in Wheaton. One of the oldest and largest parks in town will get three new pickleball courts.
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Custom home ‘Pinnacle’ development gets support from Lombard plannersJun 26, 2024 7:10 pm - A developer wants to turn a partially vacant, mostly unincorporated site into a luxury residential community that would fall entirely within Lombard’s boundaries. Afsar D...
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Mural, projection art pitched for downtown WheatonJun 24, 2024 8:25 pm - Advocates for public art in downtown Wheaton have proposed a mural for a retaining wall along the Illinois Prairie Path near the city’s French market pavilion. They also hope to eventually add a projection mapping system to the space.
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Federal attorneys seek to intervene in Haymarket lawsuit against ItascaJun 21, 2024 6:20 pm - Chicago's U.S. attorney's office is seeking to join a lawsuit against Itasca over the village’s rejection of a plan to turn a former hotel into an addiction treatment and...
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Three years later, lives still upended by tornado that tore through WoodridgeJun 21, 2024 10:25 am - Three years have passed since a late-night tornado left her Woodridge townhouse community in shambles. Yet Maria Rivas still feels in limbo. “I still don’t know when I’m ...
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Hokusai exhibition set to make waves at the College of DuPageJun 18, 2024 5:27 pm - The 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai will follow Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo as the subject of a summer art exhibition at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.
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As Winfield moves ahead with plaza design, school officials raise concerns with siteJun 17, 2024 6:33 pm - Winfield trustees have moved one step closer to a downtown beautification project, despite an ongoing legal fight over how to pay for that and other developments in the v...
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‘Empty does not mean unloved’: Is piece of DuPage’s farming past in jeopardy?Jun 16, 2024 9:23 pm - Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct when William Briggs Greene purchased his property and that he was born in America. More than a year ago, the O...