Plainfield News

The 40 members of the Oswego School District Superintendents Attendance Boundary Committee held what may be its last work meeting Tuesday night at Oswego East High School.

Welcome to Job Central, our weekly column listing local job advertisements and descriptions.

Lewis Barnes carried a puzzle box with a picture of a mountain meadow, full of tall grass and wildflowers with snow-covered slopes in the distance.

Bentura Bahena Contreras, 35, 13964 Emerson, Plainfield, arrested by the Will County Sheriff's Office and booked into the Will County jail on Feb.

These are incidents reported by the Naperville Police Department. Where charges have been filed, the reports include when and where the suspect was stopped or taken into custody and the nature of the charges.

Melissa McCarthy has come a long way since growing up in Plainfield, IL. In the past year, she's won and been nominated for awards for her roles in both Mike & Molly and the acclaimed comedy Bridesmaids .

This year, St. Mary Immaculate School is featuring some notable auction items at its annual fundraiser, Galabration '12: Diamonds & Denim, to benefit the school and its children.

The rapid growth of Latino and other immigrant populations in Chicago's suburbs is outstripping the ability of public schools to provide bilingual programs mandated by Illinois, and government financing for the programs is shrinking, state records show.

Red wristbands are being sold to raise money for Tamara Watkins, the Plainfield woman seriously injured when her SUV was struck by an alleged drunk driver nearly four weeks ago.

Suburban Chicago schools can't keep up with the need for bilingual programs prompted by the huge increase in non-English-speaking students, according to an article in the new York Times .

"The Lion in Winter," written by James Goldman and directed by Luke Pascale of Plainfield, is a story about the King of England and his daytime-TV train wreck of a family.

Part Two: Plainfield Abolitionists The Inquiry Decades before the outbreak of the Civil War 150 years ago, the battle to end slavery had been waged by abolitionists, typically under a cloak of secrecy.

After a couple months of meetings and maps, parents are looking to send the Oswego School District's boundary committee back to the drawing board, at least for a few details.

The Plainfield Village Board on Monday approved a special-use ordinance for a planned development to allow for the sale of classic cars at the Rod Baker showroom on Joliet Road and Dillman Street.

But that is not the only grant that will be used to support much-needed public improvement projects in the village this year.

When Juan Serrano-Ortega was caught driving without a license in Kansas four years ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement secured an order to have him deported.

A free screening of the movie "Vanishing of the Bees" will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Plainfield Public Library, part of the Green Village Lecture Series.

The Joliet City Council approved a development plan that allows the Department of Veterans Affairs to take over a section of Silver Cross Hospital for the clinic.

The driver killed in the accident caused by an intoxicated driver going the wrong way on Interstate 80 early this morning was headed to his girlfriend's home in Plainfield , according to a report in the Chicago Tribune .

The Village of Oswego's new economic development department is prepared to assist downtown merchants in organizing themselves to promote their businesses and the downtown.