Wood Dale News

Gary Johansson, VP of quality for Matrix Tooling of Wood Dale, Illinois, describes the various inspection technologies Matrix uses to measure tiny part features.

Western access to O'Hare International Airport was the reason DuPage County nine years ago reversed its long-running opposition to airport expansion.

Wood Dale native Colin Brady turned to motion capture for one of the scenes he helped create for the 2004 film 'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.' He has worked as an animation director or supervisor on such films as 'Hugo' and 'Green Lantern.' 'I was working on 'Lemony Snicket' and we needed to animate a baby wrestling a giant ... (more)

This Nov. 18, 2008 file photo shows the Northern Illinois Women's Center in Rockford, Ill.

The victim, whose name is being withheld pending family notification, was driving a 2011 Mitsubishi traveling eastbound on Touhy Avenue when the vehicle went off the roadway for unknown reasons, police said.

An increased scrutiny of Illinois abortion clinics in the wake of revelations about a "house of horrors" in Philadelphia revealed that some facilities had gone up to 15 years without inspections, and two now have closed after regulators found health and safety violations.

A suspect has been apprehended in Wood Dale after leading police on a high speed chase after shots were fired at officers in Carpentersville.