Articles filed under Chicago Tribune
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Book Road in Naperville could reopen between 75th and 83rd streets by month’s endSep 19, 2026 10:59 am - Naperville residents who’ve been unable to use Book Road for most of the year will see a little relief once the stretch between 75th and 83rd streets reopens by month’s end.
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Naperville Public Library seeking 8% budget increase in 2027Sep 19, 2026 10:55 am - Naperville Public Library’s proposed 2027 operating budget calls for an 8.11% spending increase — about $1.5 million more than this year and the largest increase in the last five years.
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ECC teacher credits horror mask career to TV’s SvengoolieSep 19, 2026 10:53 am - Peter Infelise, a graphic design professor at Elgin Community College, has been making horror masks for decades and now has a display showing his work at the college through Nov. 30.
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Wauconda’s Colton Zak disrupts Grayslake North’s offense, as usual. But his first touchdown? ‘Exhilarating.’Sep 19, 2026 7:44 am - Wauconda sophomore Colton Zak’s varsity football career is all of five games old. Watching the 5-foot-10, 185-pound Zak play, however, one wouldn’t know it. “It’s a lot m...
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West Aurora’s Tyler Fecht, last year’s backup to Ball State-bound Mason Atkins, takes control as starting QBSep 19, 2026 7:41 am - The last thing any player wants is to be a backup like West Aurora’s Tyler Fecht was last season. it was understandable, however, that Fecht toiled behind star quarterbac...
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Linebacker John Lyons is Naperville North’s ‘heartbeat on defense.’ He keeps ticking to beat Metea ValleySep 19, 2026 7:37 am - Naperville North’s John Lyons thought he had it all figured out. He was going to be a baseball star. “Since I can remember, I was always a baseball fan,” Lyons said. “It’...
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One of state’s top wrestlers, Brian Hart returns to football to keep Wauconda on winning track: ‘It’s my turn’Sep 18, 2026 7:59 pm - Wauconda’s Brian Hart left football for a time, but it never really left him. Hart decided to sit out last season so he could double down on wrestling, and he was rewarde...
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Girls volleyball: Romy Fleegle finds confidence to star for unbeaten Libertyville alongside sister: ‘Romy has come into her own’Sep 18, 2026 7:54 pm - Libertyville’s Romy Fleegle seemed destined to play volleyball from an early age. Her oldest sister, Emma Colyer, played the sport at a Florida high school and then at Mo...
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Boys soccer: Strang, whose father played with Naperville Central coach, is starring for himSep 18, 2026 7:46 pm - Brady Strang wasn’t born to play soccer, but he was destined to play the sport at Naperville Central. The senior forward is the son of Brett Strang, who runs the Napervil...
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Martin Lawrence returns to Chicago: ‘Just here to make you laugh’Sep 18, 2026 3:54 pm - Chicago isn’t the first stop on Martin Lawrence’s new tour, which brings him to the Arie Crown Theater on Friday, Sept. 25, but he says the city is always top of mind. “If it wasn’t for Chicago stamping me and giving me the OK,” Lawrence said, “I wouldn’t have been known in all the households around the world.”