Karen Mellen

After a decade of negotiations, radioactive thorium will be removed from the DuPage River and a tributary in the West Chicago area under an agreement with Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Corp., a...

All new Naperville apartment buildings, condominium buildings and most townhouses will require brick on half of their exteriors as part of a move by the City Council to toughen design...

Fire Chief Alan Rohlfs announced Thursday that he would retire effective Oct. 4. Rohlfs became fire chief in 1984 after working as a firefighter for Hartford, Conn., for 17 years....

Standing in front of the burned-out shell of St. Michael Catholic Church in Wheaton, investigators announced Friday that they had charged a parishioner with setting a blaze that originally was...

The president of the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation will step down in May because she was recently appointed to the city's Plan Commission. Darlene Senger, who ran unsuccessfully for the...

For the second year in a row, the Naperville Park District has been awarded a state grant to help pay for developing new ballfields, paths and a parking lot at...

A mother who gave up her pediatrics practice to raise her two children came home Thursday after chaperoning a 5th-grade field trip and allegedly stabbed her sons in the chest,...

Three years ago, state and local officials praised the Bourbonnais Fire Protection District for its response to a truck-train crash that killed 11 people aboard an Amtrak Superliner. The entire...

The city's satellite office in the northern part of town will open Monday. Called Community Connection, the satellite facility will allow residents, commuters and businesses to pay their utility bills,...