EMHC boosts security after patient’s escape
The state-run Elgin Mental Health Center has beefed up its security procedures following the escape two months ago of accused triple murderer Maikobi Burks, who authorities say used a stolen key to gain his freedom from the facility.
The state-run Elgin Mental Health Center has beefed up its security procedures following the escape two months ago of accused triple murderer Maikobi Burks, who authorities say used a stolen key to gain his freedom from the facility.
C’ville may delay two departments from move
Sorry, Community Development Department. You, too, Engineering. Those two departments may not have a home in the village's new public works facility following discussion at the Carpentersville Village Board meeting this week.
Sorry, Community Development Department. You, too, Engineering. Those two departments may not have a home in the village's new public works facility following discussion at the Carpentersville Village Board meeting this week.
Mammograms should start at 40, doctors say
A government panel of scientists say most women don't need mammograms in their 40s, as the American Cancer Society has recommended for nearly two decades, and should get one every two years starting at 50. When it comes to their own bodies, however, local women think early detection is key -- and by any means possible.
A government panel of scientists say most women don't need mammograms in their 40s, as the American Cancer Society has recommended for nearly two decades, and should get one every two years starting at 50. When it comes to their own bodies, however, local women think early detection is key -- and by any means possible.
Toddler rescued from burning Elgin home
A 2-year-old boy was reported to be in "fine" condition Thursday after being rescued from a fire that heavily damaged a west-side Elgin home. Firefighters who were called to the home about 3:10 p.m. found flames coming from a bedroom on the first floor of the house. Elgin Fire Department Battalion Chief Terry Bruce said emergency personnel soon learned a baby boy remained inside, sitting in a high chair.
A 2-year-old boy was reported to be in "fine" condition Thursday after being rescued from a fire that heavily damaged a west-side Elgin home. Firefighters who were called to the home about 3:10 p.m. found flames coming from a bedroom on the first floor of the house. Elgin Fire Department Battalion Chief Terry Bruce said emergency personnel soon learned a baby boy remained inside, sitting in a high chair.
U46 expulsions decline
The number of expulsions and expulsion hearings in School District U46 have plummeted over the last several years, according to the district's first-quarter data.
The number of expulsions and expulsion hearings in School District U46 have plummeted over the last several years, according to the district's first-quarter data.
Quinn: New taxes needed to fix budget
Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that a tax increase he proposed earlier in the year would be the best way to help the Fox Valley's social services, some of whom have not received any state money in five months.
Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that a tax increase he proposed earlier in the year would be the best way to help the Fox Valley's social services, some of whom have not received any state money in five months.
Two investigators involved in escape are fired
Two Cook County state's attorney's investigators have been fired after a prisoner escaped from their custody — discipline that one of their attorneys is calling "an overreaction."
Two Cook County state's attorney's investigators have been fired after a prisoner escaped from their custody — discipline that one of their attorneys is calling "an overreaction."
State urges area towns to toughen alcohol standard
The state liquor commission wants cities to follow the example of Yorkville, Geneva and Naperville and require training for anyone serving, distributing or otherwise selling alcohol.
The state liquor commission wants cities to follow the example of Yorkville, Geneva and Naperville and require training for anyone serving, distributing or otherwise selling alcohol.
Genoa official highlights city's accomplishments
Instead of dwelling on the ongoing recession, City Administrator Joe Misurelli discussed achievements made by the city in 2009 at Thursday's Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Instead of dwelling on the ongoing recession, City Administrator Joe Misurelli discussed achievements made by the city in 2009 at Thursday's Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Geneva woman: ‘I was in prison in my own life’
Mia Hays didn't have the storybook senior year of high school. Hanging out with friends, going to prom and graduation mean something completely different when you're pregnant. Being a mom at 18 does, too. "My main priority has been my daughter for two years," said Hays, now 20. "... It got to the point where I felt I was in prison in my own life." So she disappeared for nearly two months.
Mia Hays didn't have the storybook senior year of high school. Hanging out with friends, going to prom and graduation mean something completely different when you're pregnant. Being a mom at 18 does, too. "My main priority has been my daughter for two years," said Hays, now 20. "... It got to the point where I felt I was in prison in my own life." So she disappeared for nearly two months.
Elgin branching out with sustainability program
Elgin will be spending a lot of green to get an accurate count of trees growing on public property, but will be getting a significant return on that investment.
Elgin will be spending a lot of green to get an accurate count of trees growing on public property, but will be getting a significant return on that investment.
Elgin man pleads guilty to gun charges, gets 3 years in prison
An Elgin man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty this week to felony weapons charges stemming from a brief chase that occurred on the city's southwest side in September.
An Elgin man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty this week to felony weapons charges stemming from a brief chase that occurred on the city's southwest side in September.
Waste Management balks at Kane methane plan
The bright, blue flames of burning methane at the Settler's Hill landfill might grow dim under a proposed program.
The bright, blue flames of burning methane at the Settler's Hill landfill might grow dim under a proposed program.
Grant helps Kane County buy flood-prone sites
Although the last big flood occurred nearly two years ago, residents of the Richardson subdivision still recall the flooded rooms and water damage.
Although the last big flood occurred nearly two years ago, residents of the Richardson subdivision still recall the flooded rooms and water damage.
Briefs: Blood drive Tuesday in Genoa
Northern Rehabilitation Sports Medicine Associates will host a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Northern Rehabilitation Sports Medicine Associates will host a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
• Police: 11 students arrested at high schools
• Kane County gets more swine flu vaccine
• Shooting victim challenges cops
• New charge against Aurora teen
• Elgin's tree program gets a big boost
• That's the ticket ... but when is court, really?
• St. Charles man guilty of fraud
• South Elgin retires K-9, may not replace it
• Auditor: Dems should pay for health care forum
• State of Hampshire: The good, the bad & the ugly
• Crack closes St. Charles street
• Sycamore predicts slightly lower tax rate
• Huntley man pleads not guilty to pot charge
• Visiting Angels marks Memory Screening Day
• Briefs: Seasonal flu shots at East Dundee library
• West Dundee to shore up shore downtown
• Burlington trustee hits past budget spending
• Cville clears way for new Village Pizza
• Out of money, options
• East Dundee OKs spring video gaming referendum
• Maday pleads not guilty to charges related to escape
• Reaction: Mammogram limits don’t make sense
• Bartlett cops: Man faked theft of his Corvette
• South Elgin seeks transit options info
• Being a quitter: It’s easier said than done
• Police Report: Man charged in South Elgin robbery
• Briefs: ESO slates Guest Artist Master Class Series
• Soldier on leave hopes to be home for son's birth
• New Elgin bar seeks 4 a.m. liquor license
• Richest congressmen? They're right here
• No charges filed against EMHC escapee
• Kane sheriff 'shocked' over lack of funds
• Kane coroner complains again: Bodies removed
• Allen's Corner or Big Timber: Which first?
• Downtown street & utility projects are winding down
• Police Report: Vandals hit 3 vehicles in Elgin
• 50 years & counting at Revcor Inc.
• A taste of Elgin wildlife
• GOP hopefuls line up against Foster
• ECC's mock trial team shows it's the real thing
• Tenants, fight for your rights
• Kane to seek back taxes it paid on Wards
• 71 new houses proposed north of Hampshire
• C'ville police get funding to cut DUI-related crashes
• Police Blotter
• D-C students use Voices to eliminate poverty
• Ride to remember
• 151 in U46 named AP scholars
• Rally calls for peace in wake of recent murder
• Legacy of the fallen
• Elgin water, sewer rates may go up
• Valley residents relate health care struggles
• 'Jersey Boys' pitching in for Elgin Boys & Girls Club
• Police Report: Drug charges in Elgin traffic stop
• ECC board approves new parking lot
• Briefs: Read around the world in South Elgin
• Love Light to shine again at Sherman
• St. Charles man charged in apartment stabbing
• State offering aid to avoid foreclosure
• Senate hopeful touts anti-corruption role
• Local lawyer bilked clients, authorities say
• This project seems immune from housing bubble
• Practicing for patients at new Sherman Hospital
• Prosecutor: There may be more Dugan victims
• Kane sheriff awards Citizen of the Year to 3
• Police Report: Items stolen from Elgin apartment
• Slain Bolingbrook soldier comes home
• Hampshire parks host Holiday Expo on Sunday
• State's first foam recycling site opens in North Aurora
• 'Good morning' calls for Genoa seniors, disabled?
• Miller gets sports hall of fame nod
• Briefs: Community Thanksgiving service in Elgin
• Murder sends ‘shiver down the state’s spine’
• Jury decides on death sentence for Dugan
• Lords Park bison, elk win reprieve
• Olympian springs into Elgin
• Genoa merchants host open house
• Gilberts board cool to request to allow hunting
• Keyes vigil, call for peace on Friday
• Campton Hills police chief leaving
• Winning lottery ticket sold in West Dundee
• Door closing on decades of agony
• ‘Heroes’ have spoken for the dead
• More long, dull years await Dugan in prison
• Police Report: Sycamore duplex burns
• In class and learning about vets on Veterans Day
• Kane gets $555,000 from state for H1N1 efforts
• Salvation Army set to ring in its 2009 Kettle Campaign
• Briefs: Program to help with energy costs
• Illinois' Death Row inmates
• Illinois’ death row prisons
• Bail set at $1 million in teen’s murder
• Army medic's sister: He's in good condition
• ECC club celebrates Marines’ 234th birthday
• Pair indicted in car title fraud scheme
• Elginite shares memories brother killed at Pearl
• Kane to pay $6.3 million for Wards building
• SC man guilty of selling cocaine near church
• Veterans Day activities
• Fire Prevention Month a success in Hampshire
• Kane deputies' future in doubt
• Driver charged with murder in teen's death
• On the other side of thoughts and prayers
• Nicaricos thank victims' families, jury
• Police Report: Felony traffic charge in Elgin
• IRS may still have your tax refund check
• Briefs: Elgin's United Way, food bank join forces
• Elgin budget details move onto the dance floor
• Muslim facility plan back to panel
• Jury deliberations begin on Dugan's sentence
• Property tax rate set to decrease in D300
• Woman dead after accident in Streamwood
• Elgin man gets 20-year term on gun, drug charges
• Site new of state veterans' home announced
• Mom sentenced to prison for abducting kids
• Hampshire to join FVC
• Library book sale this weekend
• 2 BHS students are National Merit semifinalists
• Quilts honor, comfort those in U.S. service
• 5 treated after College of DuPage gas leak
• Huntley program wins presidential recognition
• St. Charles taps economic development chief
• Waubonsie Valley honors local veterans
• DuPage sheriff to meet with Biden
• Dangers of driving a cab
• A 'Freedom Salute' for Guard, families
• Hampshire to get fewer paths, more benches
• Genoa Main Street salutes '09 heroes
• Police Blotter
• D300 holding Vets Day classes for first time
• Huntley plans holiday fun, warns about pipe insurance
• Russian Red Army skates into Dundee
• St. Charles Marine gets warm welcome home
• On the road with Elgin's gang unit
• U46 cuts may run deep
• Body betrayed, Geneva man fights on
• Hanover Park man charged with 10th DUI
• Police Report: Elgin home burglarized
• Union says deputies willing to sacrifice to help budget
• Out of the old, into the new
• Area road construction roundup
• Pub opens at Bowes Creek
• Nriefs: Microchips for pets in South Elgin
• Help with gas bills available
• Slain soldier was 'angel of the family'
• Wards building legal bills reach $226K
• North Stars hang on, advance to quarters
• Elgin woman dies from flu complications
• Fort Hood suspect said goodbyes
• Flu fears fuel fetters on hospital visits
• No changes at Tuscany Woods after bank failure
• No bond reduction for babysitter charged in death
• Radio tribute to troops Sunday
• It's already beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Dugan among very worst in psychopathic traits: expert
• Kane County retires honored K-9
• Kane judiciary over budget, too
• Back to wall: Is Drew's nephew persecuted?
• Tea Party turns up the volume on Foster
• Kane board vet won't seek re-election
• Recipe for success
• Briefs: Youth football raffle fundraiser
• DCFS investigating death of 6-week-old Elgin boy
• Elgin cash will help get 2nd dealer to auto mall
• Kane sheriff could run out of money
• And another thing ...
• E. Dundee plans advisory vote on video gaming
• Man struck, killed by train in DeKalb County
• Brian Dugan expressed remorse for killing girl
• Plans for Hampshire park in final stages
• DuPage gets injectable H1N1 vaccine
• Elgin man convicted on sex, drug charges
• Dundee Twp. library welcomes new director
• Visit to Aurora crossing
• U46 potentially cutting sports
• Carpentersville tax rates likely to increase
• Some oppose new Village Pizza in Carpentersville
• Reining in jury verdicts on health care cases
• Historical society honors village hall, 3 homes
• Elgin cab robberies may be coincidence
• Elgin looking at business licenses
• Doctors say Dugan's brain is abnormal
• Sleepy Hollow chief: Squad car crashes a fluke
• Burlington tax levy changes little; finances improve
• Library will host Nov. 23 'Sycamore Thanksgiving'
• Audit report right on the numbers for West Dundee
• 'No refusal' weekend nabs 14 in Kane County
• Police Report: Battery, weapons charge
• Briefs: Turkey dinner in Burlington on Saturday
• More lose jobs as Elgin readies 2010 budget
• Elgin man convicted of assaulting boys
• Latest U46 budget cuts include sports
• Panel advises changes to new Elgin Wal-Mart plans
• Woman charged in 8-month-old's death
• Without a safety net
• Man charged with injuring St. Charles officer
• $1M bond for teen held in Halloween shooting
• Candidates file for 2010 elections
• Hampshire takes escrow after Park bank fails
• DuPage County races draw cast of dozens
• Dugan case opens questions about justice
• Equine therapy helps hospice patients
• Preserve central to effort to halt deer disease
• Bigger bite in food license fees for Elgin
• GOP candidates line up in droves
• Both size, style carry weight at pumpkin event
• Many concerned over cost of health reform
• Larsen Middle School chills
• Police Blotter: Guilty plea in cocaine sale
• Experience with public health insurance plans
• Kids, we need your weather art
• 'Improvement' time for teachers to school each other
• Library accepting food for fines
• Crime down in state; up in Kendall County
• Festival of Trees set to deck the halls
• Rotolo gym floor on hold for now
• When illness strikes
• New school club: No girls allowed!
• No-refusal weekend in Kane County
• Health Department: No flu outbreak in SC
• ID thefts targeted DeKalb County banks
• Elgin man convicted for robbing pizza delivery man
• Judson prez gives upbeat financial report
• Primped pets pan for prizes at Spring Hill Mall
• Animal shelter to Elgin: Don't ban pit bulls
• East Dundee Teen sentenced for arson in Elgin
• Huntley bows out of Class 6A state playoffs
• Schools under pressure
• Provena closes its baby unit
• 3 schools among state's top 100
• Parents: We're stuck with tests
• Controlled burn of Elgin wetland planned
• DuPage County receives more H1N1 flu vaccine
• Police: Don't try this at home
• Kane Co. takes step toward video gaming
• Jurors hear debate over Dugan confession
• Schillerstrom wants 'timeouts' on spending votes
• Kane hits settlement on circuit clerk's quarters
• DuPage workers to see health care cost hikes
• Police Report: LITH man dead in Wisconsin
• Lawyer: New view of Drew
• Ding-dong! Local communities set trick-or-treat hours
• Kane Co. cancels H1N1 vaccination clinics
• Hay grant helps bail out Elgin horse sanctuary
• Elgin-area vacancy rate through the roof
• Cops: Man threatened to get hitman to kill ex's beau
• Cop radio-speak going the way of the telegraph
• Genevan's zombie flick to play in Dundee
• Swine flu vaccinations at Centegra in McHenry Co.
• Waiting for evidence in Vaughn case
• Anderson Animal Shelter to host 'A Night to Paws'
• Briefs: Group to screen film in Elgin
• Willow Lake Estates turning a corner
• Chicago terror suspect claims he was 'duped' by friend
• D300 removes Dzialo as Jacobs coach
• Kane dairy farmers not liquidating herds
• Kane working to fill H1N1 flu vaccine gaps
• Terror suspect owns Grundy meat plant
• U46 enrollment up slightly
• Two years, no answers in Peterson case
• Burlington gearing up for Christmas
• DuPage Co. delays Muslim center vote
• Meals on Wheels runs into funding crisis
• IDOT nixes red-light camera at 72 and Randall
• Schools brace for bad year as home values fall
• Vaccine clinics
• Drew sues bank over frozen credit line
• H1N1 vaccine still trickling into DuPage
• STB agrees to widen its oversight of EJ&E deal
• Hampshire considers move to Fox Valley
• Briefs: Sight Night Parade to step off in Bartlett
• Michigan man rearrested in homicide
• Some nonunion employees in D300 to get raises
• Budget prep is Elgin’s No. 1 focus
• Back to normal at St. Charles East
• Andy McKenna enters Illinois governor's race
• Thousands wait at Elgin school to get flu shots
• Sexual assault suspect sought by Elgin police
• South Elgin man found guilty on weapons charges
• Candidates and no-shows on first filing day
• Those who filed Monday
• Many hats tossed in ring for county offices
• Bartlett shop wins Bicycle Friendly Business award
• Streamwood woman dies from accident
• Elginite guilty of trying to buy 1 kilo of cocaine
• Churches' food baskets help people make ends meet
• IDOT says end in sight for road-project misery
• Looking through the looking glasses in S. Elgin
• No new parking restrictions for Eagle Heights
• Budget plans for 2010 highlight goals in Huntley
• Police Blotter
• For incumbents, contenders, it's time for 2010 campaign
• Principal to students: TXT ME
• Smashing finale set for Pumpkin Festival
• Improving the climate for an improved climate
• Hanover Park standoff ends after 13 hours
• Area schools target healthier menus
• Missing Geneva mother found safe
• Police blotter: Crash victim dies
• Algonquin school chosen for Teen Safe Driving program
• Elgin's Painted Ladies feted
• Hampshire walkathon beats goal of $8,000
• Algonquin school helps boy run over by bus
• C’ville cops cautions kids about strangers
• Elgin man convicted on drug charge
• Jurors hear Dugan's jailhouse letters
• Storm puts major dent in Royals' playoff hopes
• Nicaricos tell of pain that never goes away
• Sheriff Perez announces bid for second term
• U46 staff braces for the 'inevitable'
• St. Charles North grad dies
• Dam project allows fish, paddlers smoother sailing
• Tape tells how Dugan drowned victim
• ECC tops among Illinois community colleges in enrollment growth
• Jobless rate rises slightly in state, Kane, Elgin
• Police Blotter: Drug charges
• St. Charles East: Who really was sick?
• Classes canceled, but teachers still interacting with students
• 'Hampshire' movie more about Quincy
• You're selling a relationship, Hampshire chamber advised
• Jurors hear Dugan's 1985 taped confession
• Last weekend for haunted hike
• Officials probe St. Charles East outbreak
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