Burlington News

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.

Driving a cross-country semi is a 24-hour job. And at the three truck stops where I-90 spills its travelers onto Route 20 at the north edge of Hampshire, taking care of truckers' needs for food, sleep and a friendly ear is an equally around-the-clock business.

A crowd of nearly 100 people assembled Sunday along Getzelman Road as an earth-moving machine peeled back the sod marking the entrance to what will be the home of St.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars will celebrate 110 years of tradition Tuesday, Sept.

A 16-year-old Elgin teen died Friday afternoon in a head-on collision in Saint Charles, said the Kane County Sheriff's Department.

SYCAMORE – A parade invokes images of marching bands, decorative floats, colorful flags and baton twirlers tossing their batons high into the air.

Monday Overeaters Anonymous: 3:30 p.m. at Senior Services Center, 330 Grove St. in DeKalb; 815-758-4718. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 5:45 p.m. weigh-in and 6:30 p.m. meeting at St.