Wheaton News

Kendall Ciesemier's charity work - which already has drawn accolades from former President Bill Clinton and earned her a hug from Oprah Winfrey when she appeared on the show in 2007 - has led to her being named a 2009 Hugable Hero by Build-A-Bear Workshop.

The Comedy Shrine: Shows include: "Laughtime Comedy Network for Women" at 8 p.m. Thursdays ; "Whose Line Is It Anyway," at 8 p.m. Fridays and 8 and 10 p.m. Saturdays ; "The Naughty Show," at 10 p.m. Fridays, no one under age 17 will be admitted, . At 22 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville.

Families looking for Independence Day fun can head to Cantigny Park today in west suburban Wheaton.

An Aurora man faces up to 30 years in prison for inappropriately touching a young girl left in his care and possessing thousands of sexual images of children on his home computers.

Three men are facing aggravated child pornography charges resulting from separate undercover Internet stings in Wheaton.

WHEATON – Bradley Justice was sentenced this afternoon to 81 years in prison in the beating death of Karen Hassan of St.

First Trust Advisors, a Wheaton, Ill.-based asset management firm, will launch an exchange-traded fund to track the American Banker Association's index of the U.S.'s most actively traded community banks and thrifts, the American Bankers Association announced today.

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Hearing music from the likes of George M. Cohan and John Philip Sousa carried on a warm summer breeze is one of the time-honored traditions of the Fourth of July, evoking feelings of pride and patriotism.

A Florida man is recovering from stab wounds he sustained during an altercation at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton, authorities said Friday.

Crescent Street in Wheaton is the place for tragic firsts this summer. Wheaton resident Micheal Scalzo, 40, of 804 Crescent St., was stabbed to death June 19 in the first homicide Wheaton has seen in eight years, according to police Chief Mark Field.

Almost a decade after the project was first proposed, the Manchester Road/Wesley Street Bridge replacement is finally going to happen.

Friends and neighbors of Michael "Motorcycle Mike" Scalzo said that Michael R. Delaney carved the words "Will Kill" in a wooden door in Scalzo's building recently.

Jun 21, 2009 6:50 pm US/Central WHEATON, Ill. A 45-year-old Wheaton man has been charged with fatally stabbing his neighbor.

A suspect is in custody Saturday morning for the fatal stabbing of a male near Wheaton College in the west suburb Friday night, police said.

Before agreeing to become a financial backstop for a proposal to reopen the historic Wheaton Grand Theater, the city might want a revenue guarantee of its own.

The 10th anniversary Wheaton Band Festival will be launched at 7:15 p.m. July 17 with Mark Ridenour of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra soloing with the Chicago Brass Band.

Your summer fun has begun! This summer, look no further than the Wheaton Park District.

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today the arrest of DAVID V. TANK, age 47, of 1006 North President Street in Wheaton, Illinois.

An abandoned Wheaton infant nicknamed "Joshua" will remain in state protective custody until the interest of the child's father is determined, a judge ruled Tuesday.