Villa Park News

Leaders of Chicagoland's Muslim community gathered here Saturday evening to celebrate, but they could not ignore the fact a fellow Muslim is believed to be responsible for Thursday's massacre in Fort Hood, Tex.

Critics of legalized video gambling in bars and restaurants across the state appear to be on the ropes after facing a major setback in the push to stop the massive expansion approved this summer.

A Thursday afternoon drug-related kidnapping that erupted into an early Friday police chase on the South Side has ended in the arrests of four men Saturday morning.

Ashley Clarke, student, Elmhurst: "Any kind of clown. They are scary." Alex Boven, student, Villa Park: "Luigi was pretty awesome." Brian Morgan, student, Lombard: "Wario from Super Mario Bros.

A West Chicago city council committee voted swiftly and unanimously Wednesday night to recommend a ban on video gambling.

Last week, I was an exhibitor at "A Passport to Success," the business-to-business Expo sponsored by the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry and three other chamber organizations At the same time, as the event's publicist, I took close to 100 photographs and about 20 videos.

27, with a hit-and-run accident, not giving notice of an accident, failure to yield from entering a private driveway and not having registered plates properly fastened.

A 30-year-old Elmwood Park man has been charged with stealing more than $15,000 from two Villa Park automated teller machines using altered gift and debit cards.

A 17-year-old west suburban man was charged Thursday with assaulting a woman and holding her against her will, causing her family to file a missing person report.

The College of DuPage Photo Program and Easter Seals DuPage will celebrate the opening of "Our Journey," their 10th annual cooperative art exhibit.

Every step they take is felt locally and heard around the world. With every step they take in CROP Hunger Walks, participants remind the rest of us that some people in our communities are going hungry, going without, and that for many people in other countries, the going is much, much more difficult.

" October 8, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Doug Scott announced grants and loans for environmental projects to improve wastewater quality in Illinois, using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 .

The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is one of the most aggressive federal agencies around, and this week it is rising to the defense of female auto shoppers who were allegedly called "dingbats." "Dingbat" is the unflattering term that male employees of Castle Chevrolet in Villa Park are accused in a U.S. District Court ...

On September 11, Benjamin Dueholm attends iftar with the local pols at Illinois' largest mosque.

Before voting to cut mental health care, we want state lawmakers to read about mentally ill Hubert Thompson's sentence in the murder of James Malone in Lombard.

Tex, which was created in 2008 by former managers of Villa Park, Ill.-based Mold-Tech Worldwidea s Chinese operations, said the teams will provide technical support and texturing program management for molds made in China and then shipped to the U.S. for component molding.

An admonishment from a passing car sparked a road rage incident between two Lombard siblings and a Villa Park trustee.

Two convicted child sex offenders have been living near a Lombard park because it didn't appear on a map used by police to register the offenders' addresses.

Authorities are awaiting toxicology results before filing charges against the driver who struck a 3-year-old Fox Lake girl as she played in the street.

A DuPage County jury has found a 19-year-old Chicago man guilty of murder in the fatal beating of a west suburban Villa Park man in 2007.