How is it that for a second time in less than two years, I find myself homeless? I am not a deadbeat.

Terri Widder hesitated seconds before she booked a recent flight from Chicago to Tulsa.

Frustrated Elmhurst residents packed a town hall meeting demanding answers from city officials Monday night.

Residents in a Carol Stream neighborhood have been through this drill before. Heavy storms roll in.

Bruce Menard, who lives near Route 53 in Glen Ellyn, said his yard accumulated about 2 feet of water after flooding this weekend.

Many streets and homes in some western suburbs were still flooded Sunday night, two days after near record-breaking amounts of rain fell.

A Des Plaines man was taken into custody after allegedly attempting to meet a 14-year-old girl for sexual favors.

Talk about "getting into character." Eric Petersen, the 29-year-old Carol Stream-bred actor who stars as the swamp-dwelling ogre in the first national touring production of "Shrek the Musical" -- the show with a score by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori that opens Sunday at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre -- must arrive at his dressing ...

Three batches of mosquitoes living in DuPage County have turned up carriers of the West Nile virus this summer.

Beginning August 4th a group which calls itself Americans For Truth About Homosexuality is organizing what they call an "academy" to "train young people how to answer 'gay' activist misinformation and fight the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda." AFTAH has a long history of telling lies about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people and ...

Revenue from the city's three red-light cameras could drop significantly depending on the decisions to be made Tuesday by the Naperville City Council.

The village, which will receive a $100,000 cash prize, was one of nine municipalities that participated in the Challenge.

Comedian Tim Clue, the Second City trained comedian who penned the play "Leaving Iowa" and performs standup so clean you could invite your grandmother to the club, headlines the St.

A tentative agreement apparently is in the works that would clear the way for Carol Stream Park District to build a recreation center on the south side of Town Center near Gary Avenue and Lies Road.

Hill Eng., a member of the Formtek Group in Carol Stream, Ill., has promoted Paul Williams to the position of sales and marketing manager.

E ric Petersen is used to sauntering into the theater 20 minutes before show time and casually chatting with the other actors.

Life is good for Eric Petersen. After playing several ensemble roles in the Broadway production of "Shrek the Musical" and understudying the lead , the Carol Stream native will slather on the green greasepaint and step into Shrek's enormous boots as the star of the show's national tour.

Editor's note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department and city police departments.