Downers Grove News

Sara Lee Corp., which makes Jimmy Dean sausages and Hillshire Farm deli meats, posted a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday as it reduced the value of some assets amid a softening economy and soaring ...

The number of teens giving birth in DuPage County increased by almost 9 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to Illinois Department of Public Health statistics released last week.

Aurora police are hoping someone will help identify a woman who scammed a 57-year-old man out of thousands of dollars in cash.

A motorcyclist's foot was severed Wednesday morning when his cycle was struck by a forklift near a construction site off I-355 in southwest suburban Woodridge.

The relocation of Hinsdale's farmers market to Burlington Park this year already is paying dividends.

Bicycle taken According to police, a $350 bicycle was taken between June and July from the storage room of an apartment building in the 500 block of Carlysle Drive.

A small electrical fire in a mechanical room at the Oak Brook Hills Hotel was quickly contained by fire crews Tuesday morning.

Peoria firefighter Adam Rupp stands by as a crew from Wright Tree Service arrives to remove a fallen tree that downed powerlines and blocked Knoxville Avenue near Crestwood Drive in an early morning storm ...

About 225 participants headed out to Barth Pond at Patriots Park Saturday for the 8th annual fishing derby.

An 18-year-old Downers Grove man was seriously injured when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car Sunday in Naperville, police said.

A 33-year-old Montgomery man was killed crossing busy Route 38 late Saturday, hours after he was arrested and charged with DUI, Campton Hills police said Sunday.

MILWAUKEE Charges have been filed against two Illinois men who allegedly beat up a suburban Milwaukee man after a Brewers' loss to the Cubs at Miller Park.

The 24-year-old suburban Milwaukee man who was beaten outside of Miller Park this week by three Cubs fans has been charged with disorderly conduct, along with one of his assailants.

A man facing 30 criminal counts stemming from a 2006 sexual assault of a woman in Downers Grove is suing three Jefferson County Jail employees, claiming they illegally took his toothbrush for DNA tests at the ...

The Dominick's grocery store in Downers Grove was evacuated early Thursday afternoon, after reports of smoke coming from the building's roof.

Downers Grove police said they recovered a BB gun and have three people in custody after an incident on Butterfield Road on Monday night.

Adelia Thoelcke awoke to the sound of her husband's voice at 3 a.m. Monday. Her husband, who smelled something burning, assumed the scent was coming from their home.

A Momence man died after his vehicle was struck at an intersection Monday. The accident happened at 9:40 a.m. on Will-Center Road near Beecher-Peotone Road, Will County Sheriff's spokesman Pat Barry said.

Police had one man in handcuffs and placed a silver handgun on a black Ford Taurus they had surrounded on Highland Avenue near Butterfield Road in Downers Grove during the Monday night rush hour.

A truck company is offering a $10,000 reward for information regarding the whereabouts of the trailer of a cigarette truck that was hijacked in west suburban Downers Grove.