Lemont News

The College Board's Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school, and receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

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

Recreational destinations like Channahon Parkway State Park at Channahon are plentiful along the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The clowns could've cried at Nick's Tavern recently. The venerable downtown Lemont bar -- sanctuary for Cubs fans, home to burgers the size of manhole covers and repository for a collection of clown figurines both eerie and charming -- changed hands.

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Lemont High School will host its annual eighth-grade open house 6:30-8:15 p.m. Thursday at the school, 800 Porter St.

White elephant sale: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 14 at Joshua Arms of Joliet Senior Apartments, 1315 Rowell Ave., Joliet.

The Canal Corridor Association will coordinate the development of a comprehensive management plan for the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal.

Book fair: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 9-10 in the cafeteria of Silver Cross Hospital, 1200 Maple Road, Joliet.

For 21 years, Terrence J. O'Brien has been on the board of Cook County's sewage-treatment operation, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

St. Edward and Christ Church in Joliet will present its November Taize' service of healing at 7 p.m. Nov.

The FDIC said it entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with U.S. Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, to assume all of the deposits and essentially all of the assets of nine failed banks.

Of course back then, the meeting I had with him was to simply put to rest many of the issues that plague the Orland Fire Protection District that he heads.

The way Michelle Maxia sees it, you have two choices when things get tough. ``You're either gonna focus on the problem or engage in the solution,'' she said.

The FDIC closed 9 banks late last night, with a combined $19.4 billion of assets all of which were owned by one holding company and sold to US Bank in Minnesota.

Junior high girls and their families will receive a guided tour of the campus, meet with faculty and students and view a demonstration of the school's tablet computer program.

A lot of those cute little towns and prosperous suburbs out beyond the city limits that are so often so proud to fly the American flag are run by leaders who must think they are in Russia .

Starting Monday October 19th a two-month bridge repair project will close eastbound Illinois Route 171 at the Long Run Creek bridge, located just west of 135th Street in the Lockport-Lemont-Homer Glen area.

Four people were arrested Friday morning for allegedly burglarizing a house in the 1100 block of Campbell Street.

The Presidents' Council on Physical Fitness announced that St. Mary Nativity School earned the highest award for outstanding achievement in physical fitness and is distinguished as a state champion for the 2008-09 school year.