Lyons News

Summer is typically the time for school construction projects, but it's also when administrative and individual school leadership changes are usually made as well.

More than 1,000 Lyons Township High School students walked in the annual Relay for Life June 12-13 at Bennett Field.

Spending much of a career covering crime taught me that many cliches about the criminal justice system are unfounded.

Christopher Getty, who was elected mayor of Lyons by an overwhelming majority over the incumbent administration more than two months ago, says he's enjoying the challenges he has faced in his first month in office, despite losing one trustee seat in the April 7 election and still being in the minority.

Michael Brillisour, a Lyons Township High School graduate, earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington.

The following incidents were listed among official reports of the Oak Park Police Department.

If you're hoping to bargain shop for a Chrysler or General Motors vehicle, don't forget to haggle .

The Steve Cooper Orchestra will perform on the Grundy County Courthouse lawn Thursday, June 4. The first in the city of Morris' Summer Concert Series will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. From the Chicago area, the 11-piece orchestra will perform Big Band sounds and feature vocalist Mary Kalfas.

Park Junior High in LaGrange Park will receive donations from plant sales at Vern Goers Greenhouse, 5620 S. Oak, Hinsdale.

It would have been hard to find a man more worthy of being grand marshal of the Western Springs Memorial Day Parade than Jack Gocke.

Area residents and municipal officials will honor fallen veterans in a variety of observances, both celebratory and ceremonial in nature, on Monday, May 25.

It was announced on Tuesday, May 18th 2009, that the Kiddieland Amusement Park located in near northwest suburban Melrose Park Illinois, has officially been sold.

A former assistant principal at both Lincoln Elementary School in Brookfield and George Washington Middle School in neighboring Lyons has been named the new principal of District 103's Lincoln School.

A motorist from west suburban Lyons was killed late Saturday in a rollover crash on the Eisenhower Expressway on the West Side.

Budget shortfalls caused in part by the downturn in the economy is resulting in the elimination of as many as 34 employees of late in both the Village of Brookfield and Elementary School District 103 - which serves both Lyons and Brookfield families.

A Des Plaines man was convicted of federal murder-for-hire charges for soliciting the murder of his business partner in a Lyons excavation company, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced Monday.

One of a handful of Brookfield School District 95 students punished late last year for participation in a series of break-ins at S.E. Gross School in downtown Brookfield during the previous Thanksgiving will be allowed to attend classes again this fall.

Parents Carmine Casa and Cheryl Anderson would like more results when it comes to tackling the academic achievement deficit for their school district's minority students.

If you are shopping for a gun for sport or protection and have your gun permit, there are some gun shops in Chicago where you can find new and used guns, ammunition, and accessories.

A 41-year-old man from Woodstock has been arrested and charged with indecent solicitation of a child after attempting to meet up with a Western Springs police officer who posed online as a 16-year-old. Duane A. Derfus, 3210 Franklinville Road, was arrested Friday on the 8800 block of Ogden Avenue in Lyons as part of an ongoing investigation.