Burr Ridge News

Tempers flared in the battle over the proposed Navistar redevelopment of the former Lucent Technologies Campus in Lisle.

Thanksgiving is the official start of the holidays, but for Lori D'Asta of La Grange, the season begins two days later, when the curtain rises on Salt Creek Ballet's Saturday afternoon performance of "The Nutcracker." "That's when the fun part of the holidays starts," Lori said.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook police departments.

The Burr Ridge Village Center will kick off its holiday season Saturday with the second annual Jingle Mingle from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the Village Green, on the north end of Village Center Drive.

Authorities have charged a Chicago man with first-degree murder in the slaying of a suburban man after a fight at a nightclub in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

A Chicago man was charged Thursday night in the slaying a Burr Ridge man after a Sunday morning argument at a Lincoln Park jazz club.

If conventional wisdom holds true, state Sen. Dan Cronin picked up an extra 5 percent of the Republican votes Tuesday in his bid for the DuPage County Board Chairman's seat.

Among other business, trustees at their Monday meeting: * passed a resolution agreeing to form a consortium of more than 60 municipalities to negotiate with local gas companies.

Jeff Kummer sits patiently waiting for the phone to ring in the corner room on Adventist Hinsdale Hospital's third floor.

A Burr Ridge man died Sunday morning from gunshot wounds suffered during an altercation in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Numbers don't always tell the whole story, according to Darien Police Chief Robert Pavelchik.

Chiro One Wellness Center of Burr Ridge, 316 Burr Ridge Parkway is hosting its annual Share the Abundance Food Drive from Nov.

Yet another high-profile Chicago property auction hasn't gone exactly as it was planned or promoted First it was the old Chicago Post Office.

Search the 2009 school report cards for all public schools in the state. New this year in the Sun-Times Media report card search: Find out where each elementary, middle and high school ranked in Illinois.

IfDuPageCounty'slargest township GOP organization canpredict the winner of next February's primary, DuPage County could elect a woman to be county board chairman in 2010.

DuPage County Board member Debra Olson was the frontrunner in a straw poll held Oct.

School administrators and teachers seem to agree that the annual state report cards, intended as a measure of how a school is measuring up in terms of educating its students, are based on a single snapshot of how students performed on a single test on a single day.

Bridges in Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook are in relatively good shape, according to a recently launched Illinois Department of Transportation Web site that allows consumers to see the results of regular bridge inspections.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook police departments.

A family of four dogs that have been orphaned since September may have a new home.