Friday, December 27, 2024
STEVE SPODEN PHOTOS Young student scientists, from kindergarten through eighth grade, displayed their science projects at Glenn Westlake Middle School for judging Feb. 23 in the 2019 Lombard School District 44 Science Fair. The projects selected “Best In Show” were (top row, left to right) “What Cup Keeps Your Morning […]
“Dare to Dream” was this year’s theme for the Lombard Service League’s 15th annual Youth Poetry Contest through which young people put their inner thoughts and emotions into the written word as expressed through the powerful vehicle of poetry. Chosen as this year’s poetry laureates are (left to right) first […]
The Village of Lombard held a special recognition ceremony before the Feb. 7 Lombard Village Board of Trustees meeting to honor Lombard Police Officer Dan Herrera and Lombard residents Justin Mueller and Stephen Spapperi. On the evening of Jan. 14, the three came to the aid of 96-year-old Antoinette Lazarra, […]
On Monday, Villa Park Police and Fire Departments responded to the area of Ardmore and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks for the report of a pedestrian who was struck by a westbound Union Pacific freight train at around 3:59 a.m. A 38-year-old man was fatally struck by the freight train, […]
A kick-off reception by the Lombard Historical Society for its upcoming special exhibit, “Sheldon Peck: Footsteps of His Life,” will be held at the historic Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton on March 14. The event will be hosted by Bob and Caroline Jacobsen and will feature renowned speaker and Peck […]
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Carol Stream Chief of Police Ed Sailer announced last week that bond has been set at $250,000 with 10% to apply for a Carol Stream volleyball coach charged with possession of child pornography. Michael Liedtke, 34, of Streamwood, appeared at a bond […]
On the weekend of the 8th anniversary of an unsolved double homicide, Mayor Nick Caiafa, the Village of Schiller Park and the Schiller Park Police Department have announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the 2011 murders of George Markopoulos and Wendy Bonder. Early in the […]
The Elmhurst College Jazz Festival, one of the oldest and best collegiate jazz festivals in the country, is back this year with its usual all-star lineup of the industry’s most notable performing artists, as well as some of the country’s leading college bands. Each February, the best college jazz bands […]
The Maple Street Chapel Variety Program Series begins its 2019 season on Sunday, Feb. 24, with the 19th annual American Heritage Concert. The professional 21-piece American Heritage Orchestra will be joined by the local dance company Impulse Movement Co., which will perform to Leonard Bernstein’s three dance episodes from “On […]
Lombard Police Officer Dan Herrera responded to a call of a car on the railroad tracks at the intersection of St. Charles Road and Grace Street in Lombard, at approximately 8:15 on the evening of Jan. 14. Herrera was close to the location and was on scene within two minutes […]
