River Grove News

Ten young women will compete for the crowns of the 2013 Miss Cary and Miss Fox River Grove Business Scholarship Pageant this Saturday.

FOX RIVER GROVE – The villlage will have an unlimited landscape waste collection day on Friday.

While mothers have been revered since the beginning of time, the first official Mother's Day in the United States didn't take place until 1908 after several go-rounds trying to get the holiday off the ground.

I don't know if it was the cruelest month , but the massive storms a few weeks definitely led to this being the wettest April in 143 years of observational data for the Chicago area.

Joe Mormino, 59, owner of the legendary Gene & Jude's restaurant on River Road, said despite the flooding damage to his long-time business, he is already working to re-open its doors.

CHICAGO Two eateries next door to each other in northwest suburban River Grove were in very different stages of cleanup on Tuesday, as flood waters from the Des Plaines River slowly receded.

Nearly 20 suburban fire departments assisted Lake Zurich with a four-alarm house fire on Sunday night that sent two people to the hospital and injured one firefighter, officials said.

The Loyola Order of Moose is sponsoring a benefit, "Hope for Jennie," from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at the Moose Lodge at 8601 W. Fullerton, in River Grove.

Dave Envall of Sherwood Lane in Des Plaines anticipates flood repair bills that may top $100,000. But he doesn't want to move.