Brookfield News

The year comes to an end with the Illinois budget in crisis, and families who depend on the state's help are wondering whether they will be able to count on it in the year ahead.

A worried resident called police to a condominium building on the 200 block of Blossom Court, where a loud shuddering noise had continued for three hours.

History was made in Brookfield earlier this month, when two firefighters and a police officer were recognized for their heroic actions above and beyond the call of duty.

Celebrate the New Year with other countries, noon-5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 31, at Wonder Works, 6445 W. North Ave., Oak Park.

For 25 years, an African elephant named Christy enchanted Brookfield Zoo's keepers and visitors with a distinct turn of her head in their direction, an unmistakable sign the social beast wanted to interact.

Chicago, IL/Schaumburg, IL/Brookfield, IL Ever since I moved out to Hooterville, going into the city of Chicago is a major project.

Andrew Bogut wanted to do something to pump some life into the Bradley Center so he drew on his international experience and created Squad 6, a combination of a collegiate student section and soccer crazies in Europe.

A brawl outside of a Brookfield bar last week resulted in felony aggravated battery charges against two men accused of beating up a fellow bar patron.

The Silhouettes may have sung about getting a job, but every day at the Triton College Career Services Center, counselers help people find jobs in many different ways.

There are still a couple of weekends left to check out Brookfiled Zoo's Holiday Magic .

Timothy Christian at Riverside-Brookfield When: 7:30 p.m. Friday. Outlook: Eight-peat Metro Suburban Conference champion R-B hosts MSC newcomer Timothy, the Private School League's final champion.

The zoo's three polar bears and two Alaskan brown bears will be moving in the coming months from the Bear Grottos, where bears have roamed since 1934, into the Great Bear Wilderness, the $27 million project on the site of the former Ibex Island.

More than 1.5 million lights turn Lincoln Park Zoo into a winter wonderland for the 15th annual ZooLights.

'Morning everyone. We've been waiting for this day for a while,' shouts Tony Pena to a crowd of Target employees at the Willowbrook store.

Those of us in Norwalk -- and, yes, those in Wilton also -- who have supported the extension of the new Route 7 northward toward Danbury can only look in envy at our neighbors in Brookfield.This week that town finally saw the opening of the Route 7 bypass, which will carry traffic around the .

Do you have any superstitions, or are you doing anything differently today? Claire Victorine, student, Western Springs: "I throw salt over my shoulder.

A Berwyn man was arrested Nov. 5 in connection with a residential burglary in Downers Grove.

Two Berwyn men were arrested earlier this week in relation to a series of burglaries, one of which occurred in Western Springs.

To view this content you need to install the Flash Player. Brrrr. Winter comes early AP Video Friday, Oct.

Pumpkin eater Nadaya, an 8-year-old Western Lowland Gorilla, enjoys a pumpkin at Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill.