Winfield

A 30-year old Warrenville man died Saturday at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, one day after his bicycle hit a semi-truck near the intersection of Illinois Route 59 and Continental Drive just after midnight on May 10, police said. According to...

By Karl Plume April 25 (Reuters) - A northern stretch of the Illinois River may remain closed to commercial shipping traffic for several weeks as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works to repair a lock damaged during recent heavy flooding, the Corps said...

The following are taken from police reports: Wheaton •Residents are asked to be on alert after a driver approached a boy and offered him candy on April 16 around 3:30 p.m. near Danada Drive and Naperville Road. The older Oldsmobile was occupied...

Newly elected Winfield village president Erik Spande wants a healthy dose of civility injected into board meetings. That may be easier said than done. After several years of contentious bickering among trustees, Spande said his first order of business...

The following items were taken from Wheaton, Glen Ellyn and Winfield police reports. Wheaton A wallet containing $150 was taken from a jacket in the men's locker room of a fitness center in the 200 block of Geneva Road between 8:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m....

The following items were taken from Glen Ellyn, West Chicago and Winfield police records. Glen Ellyn •A driver made off with $62.82 in gas from a Shell gas station in the 600 block of Roosevelt Road about 2 p.m. March 6. DUI •A 33-year-...

With Winfield officials' plan to outsource its police patrols to save money for road repairs off the table, local leaders are looking for other ways to pay to fix the village's deteriorating roads. DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin said publicly...

Herbert Douglas Bradley Jr., 86, of Winchester, beloved husband of Rachel Johnson Bradley, departed this life Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at the residence of his son in Winchester.  He was a son of the late Herbert D. and Viola Summerfield Bradley, born in...

Homeowners stockpiling salt for their driveways and sidewalks should be frugal in spreading the stuff around this winter because it's affecting area waterways such as the West Branch of the DuPage River, which flows through Wheaton, Winfield and...

The American News has been and is continuing to work on a project of the history of Northern State football: 1902-2012. The project will be published in its entirety in the Oct. 5 edition of the American News. Here is a preview of the all-time NSU...

Richard "Rick" A. Fochtman Jr., 61, died Friday, June 29, 2012, at his home in Woodridge, Ill. Born Aug. 2, 1950, in Charlevoix, Mich., to the late Richard and Bonnie (Sutton) Fochtman, Rick graduated from Charlevoix High School in 1969. He attended...

Commonwealth Edison says it could take several days to restore power to some of the tens of thousands of customers still without power following powerful weekend storms as the National Weather Service forecasts a week of a "rather unrelenting" heat wave.A...