Willow Springs News

As the semester progresses, time spent on a pre-dive safety check of scuba gear will grow shorter as Lyons Township High School students internalize the routine and plunge beneath the surface.

It's not the lifestyle residents of a Willow Springs condo development say they had in mind: no hot water for a shower, no way to do laundry, and no place to cook -- unless you count a pot on the patio.

By this time next year, Jerry Strazzante's Township of Lyons' Special Police Committee hopes to be more ready than ever for another regional disaster drill to prepare area communities and first-responders for the real thing.

A former public works director in Willow Springs is being credited with helping convince state and federal officials of the need for sidewalk improvement surrounding and leading to and from the many schools where village children attend.

A former public works director in Willow Springs is being credited with helping convince state and federal officials of the need for sidewalk improvement surrounding and leading to and from the many schools where village children attend.

The River Thru History Rendezvous will be held Oct. 10 and 11 at Columbia Woods in Willow Springs.

WILLOW SPRINGS LIONESS CLUB AWARDS TWO $500 ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS... The Willow Springs Lioness Club awarded two $500 academic scholarships to two Willow Springs residents: Thomas Riedl and Jennifer Lat.

A former public works director in Willow Springs is being credited with helping convince state and federal officials of the need for sidewalk improvement surrounding and leading to and from the many schools where village children attend.

Perhaps the most celebrated and anticipated part of this weekend's Justice Ethnic Festival in Commissioner's Park is an event within an event: a first-ever jazz show on the final afternoon featuring the fusion sounds of a well-known band from Chicago's South Side.

A longtime bar with what Justice Mayor Kris Wasowicz called "a constant list of building code violations" has been stripped of its liquor license, leaving its current owners to put the place on the selling block.

A longtime bar with what Justice Mayor Kris Wasowicz called "a constant list of building code violations" has been stripped of its liquor license, leaving its current owners to put the place on the selling block.

One of the 30 mile per hour signs on Willow Springs Road that have yet to be replaced.

ABC7 Chicago's Hungry Hound is keeping things cool every Friday in July as he shares a unique take on the ice cream social.

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.

Cantigny Post 367 VFW: Every 3rd Friday of the month, Polka music by Bob Mutz with "BIG" John Churnovic at Cantigny Post 367 VFW.

Richard Pelligrino and Tom Krause present a check from Pace in the amount of $51,001 to the Township of Lyons Board of Trustees at the May 12th Board Meeting.

Authorities are asking for the public's help identifying a woman whose body was found in the Des Plaines River near southwest suburban Willow Springs last month in DuPage County.

DuPage County authorities and the Illinois State Police are trying to identify remains of a woman found in the Des Plaines River near Willow Springs.

The six-year veteran director of the Pleasant Dale Park District was abruptly fired from her job by a new Board of Commissioners majority during a specially called meeting just hours before the start of the Memorial Day weekend May 22.

For the first time in decades, sludge processing operations conducted by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District plant in nearby Stickney - and in particular a 60-foot-tall oven there built to cook sewage into fertilizer - is turning heads.