To mammogram or not to mammogram? That was the question raised this week by a government panel of scientists and doctors who claim that 50 is the new 40 when it comes to the age when women should get the cancer screening test.

A Glen Ellyn condominium complex was evacuated Friday afternoon after firefighters found high levels of carbon monoxide in the building after several alarms went off.

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 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."

A proposed development by Navistar on the northern edge of Lisle has some residents of Glen Ellyn worried.

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.

All Glenbard students and parents are invited to a Glenbard Parent Series program from 10:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 21 in the library at Glenbard West High School, 670 Crescent Blvd. in Glen Ellyn.

The growth and development of downtown Glen Ellyn has been anything but a steady, consistent process over the last 100 years. Fits and starts would describe it best.