Burlington News

Forty years ago, Marilyn Greenawalt did an unheard of thing – she held a craft show in her home at Christmas time.

To the Editor: On Nov. 9, a fire destroyed a duplex in Sycamore. Sycamore firefighters, along with service personnel from Burlington, Cortland, DeKalb, Elburn, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire, Malta and Maple Park quickly arrived to safely contain the blaze.

The parents of a Burlington-Central student killed in a head-on crash in St. Charles took the stand at an inquest Wednesday to describe the "big holes in our hearts" left by their son's death.

A housing development planned near the border of Hampshire and Burlington in unincorporated Kane County will take the concept of green living beyond energy efficient light bulbs and rain barrels.

Vineyard Church of Elgin, 220 Division St., will host the Pastors' Prayer Group of Elgin's annual Community Thanksgiving service from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Veterans salute the colors during the playing of taps Wednesday during a Veterans Day program at Hampshire High School.

When the idea was approved by the Hampshire and Burlington village boards last month, it sounded pretty alarmist.

The United Methodist Women of the Burlington United Methodist Church is hosting an all-you-can eat-dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at the church, 195 W. Center St., Burlington.

Two years ago, when Hampshire High School first was invited to join the Fox Valley Conference, the school still shared a campus with Hampshire Middle School on State Street.

At the village board's request, the Illinois Department of Transportation has agreed study whether it would be allowable to lower the speed limits on Route 72 in front of Tuscany Woods subdivision, from 55 mph down to 45.

Hampshire High School junior Matthew Pickard concentrates during a review session for a U.S. History test on Thursday.

As this village moves toward passing responsibility for planning its special events onto a committee of volunteers from outside the village board, Village President Kathy Loos introduced the leader of that committee to other board members at their last meeting.

Maybe it should have been called "Quincy: A Ghost Story." When the Arcada Theatre in St.

If you live in Burlington and your water has seemed harder in the past few days, it's not your imagination.

Vincent J. Baldwin, 26, of the 100 block of South Main Street in Burlington, Ill., was arrested at 11:32 p.m. Oct.

Trick-or-treat hours in Bartlett will be 3 p.m. to dusk Saturday, Oct. 31. Burlington Trick-or-treat hours in the village of Burlington will be 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

From now on, the special events that focus outside attention on Burlington -- the annual Fall Fest, the July 3 fireworks, Christmas in Burlington -- will be coordinated by a committee separate from the village board, Village President Kathy Loos said as the board conducted a post-mortem of this year's Fall Fest recently.

GENEVA – The Kane County Health Department will open the first of nine public clinics this month to administer free shots the H1N1 vaccine.

Shades of "Poltergeist"! Is the countryside on Burlington's undeveloped far south side haunted by the ghosts of long-dead Native Americans? We have written before about the 52-acre country estate, complete with a 10,000-square-foot mansion and a private golf course, being erected for some mystery man along McGough Road.

The highest object in Burlington could soon be a 160-foot-tall cell phone tower.