Kathryn Wilson, right, kisses her daughter Allysa Hunt, 20, left, at their home in Montgomery on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.

Replacement of the century-old Downer Place gets started Friday afternoon with a 'Last Blast on the Bridge' ceremony.

Welcome to Job Central, our new weekly column listing local job advertisements and descriptions.

St. Charles resident Marcus Montgomery, 36, was at the Pinewood Derby for Cub Scout Pack 165 at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Campton Hills when he answered eight questions for the Kane County Chronicle's Brenda Schory.

A tussle between two of the nation's largest women's health organizations will have no effect on services in Aurora.

Holmes Oliver Dille, Jr., after a short illness, passed on to be with his Lord and Savior on the evening of January, 30, 2012.

Marie Collins said Friday that some have wondered if the meeting next week in Rome is merely a public relations exercise instead of a genuine initiative to protect children.

AURORA, Ill. - A seventh-grader faces felony charges after he brought a loaded handgun to his middle school Friday morning, Aurora police said.

On Jan. 27 at approximately 8:10 a.m., Kane County Sheriff 's Deputies, Sugar Grove Police, Big Rock Fire Department and Sugar Grove Fire Department responded to a report of a school bus crash on Granart Road, between Rhodes and Dugan roads in unincorporated Big Rock Township.

A Naperville High School student was charged Wednesday with a felony count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance after police say items found in her possession tested positive for heroin.

Aurora police have charged a Downers Grove man with retail theft from a Meijer store - and say he is a suspect at least nine other retail thefts, many of them at other Meijers in the area.

But the city will be having a "Last Blast on the Bridge" celebration, starting at 4 p.m. Friday, to mark the final days of the downtown Downer bridges.

"Any time you have a clear shot without a primary is really a good thing," Biggert said.

The following was provided by District 308. Four District 308 elementary schools were recently honored by the Illinois State Board of Education as Academic Excellence Award winners due to their exceptional performance on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test over the last three years.

The good deeds happen quietly: piano lessons for a student here, a musical instrument for a student there.

According to Aurora police reports, around 8:10 a.m. a man saw an unfamiliar tan Ford Taurus parked in his driveway and heard noises downstairs.

Not literally, of course, but virtually, as every student in grades 3 to 5 was issued an iPad at the beginning of the school year.

In the Democratic primary race for the state's new 84th House District seat, Carole Cheney has a fundraising advantage over her two opponents.

I took this photo back in September of 2007. An eastbound Metra evening rush hour local commuter train enroute to Chicago Union Station from Aurora Illinois, is viewed departing from the station at west suburban Cicero Illinois.

Jennifer Huber, standing, supervisor of the Friendly Center Club, chats with member Delores Reier.