Matthew Nickerson

U.S. census workers will begin walking door-to-door Monday through Bartlett to count the 4,900 people estimated to have moved into the village since 1990. Bartlett, which was founded 101 years...

Despite objections from two trustees, the Glendale Heights Village Board has approved a 5 percent pay raise for 26 of its top village staff and other non-union workers. Trustee Geri...

Though time has all but run out and seven years of protests have yielded small victories, opponents of the controversial Bartlett balefill have launched yet another campaign in a last-ditch...

Bloomingdale village officials said Monday that they plan to join Du Page County State`s Atty. Jim Ryan in his lawsuit to close the county`s two garbage dumps, one of which...

Officials of the Bloomingdale Baseball Association have been thrown back on their heels by a legal curve ball that threatens the way the organization operates. A lawsuit has been filed...

Though three communities have decided not to use a controversial balefill and transfer station, the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) this week secured the necessary support to...

Even after losing referendums asking for property tax increases in 1973, `77, `80 and `81, McHenry School District 15 managed to get by. But there was a price. The northwest...

Kathleen ''Kay'' Wojcik`s progression to political success is a textbook case of climbing the party ladder. Her first rung was joining the teenage Republicans, and the highest rung so far...

Residents of a Bartlett subdivision have watched a new elementary school rising within sight of their yards and assumed their children would soon be walking there every day. But now...

All last year, Susan Hopkins watched out the back window of her new $191,000 house in northwest suburban Bartlett as workers laid the foundation for a nearby elementary school. Hopkins...