At the May 8th meeting of the Elmhurst Park Board, Vince Spaeth was re-elected president of the Board of Commissioners and Kevin Graf was elected Vice-President. Commissioners also welcomed Tim Sheehan to the board, who was elected to the Board in the April for the seat vacated by retired Board […]

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today Charles Mitchell, 27, (d.o.b. 7/12/1989) of 677 Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn, has been sentenced to ten years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for severely beating his sixty-one-year-old father in June, 2016. On March 9, 2017, a jury found Mitchell guilty […]

  DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that Judge John Kinsella has sentenced Timothy Peltz, 52 (d.o.b. 10/12/1964) of Wheaton, to thirty-four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting a minor female. On January 20, 2017, Peltz appeared before Judge Kinsella where he entered […]

Illinois counties may soon be able to create their own boards of election commissioners within their county clerks’ offices as part of new legislation sponsored by State Sen. Chris Nybo (R-Elmhurst). Inspired by DuPage County’s diverging elective body, Senate Bill 1592 aims to eliminate the current DuPage Election Commission and […]

York Community High School senior Amanda Bardhoshi was recently awarded a $20,000 scholarship by the HEAR (Health, Education and Relief) Foundation. The HEAR Foundation’s mission is to provide financial and mentoring support to Chicagoland high school graduates of need, who have demonstrated academic excellence, commitment to community, and highest moral […]

34 York High School students qualified for the 2017 SkillsUSA State Leadership Conference and Competition, held April 27-29, in Springfield, IL. The 33 students who participated competed in nine different Technical Career areas: Technical Drafting, Architectural Drafting,Power Equipment Technology, Adobe Photoshop, Cabinetmaking, Collision Repair Technology, Screen Printing Technology, Automotive Service Technology,  Principles of Physics/Engineering Technology. State SkillsUSA […]

With just four weeks remaining until the General Assembly’s scheduled May 31 adjournment, State Representative Peter Breen (R-Lombard) is hoping to jump-start the budget adoption process by offering lawmakers three revenue estimates that could be used as the starting point for the creation of a full, balanced budget for Fiscal […]

Frankfort man, arrested on unrelated charges, connected to incident By Dee Longfellow For The Elmhurst Independent On May 10, the Independent learned that a person had been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place last October on eastbound I-290 near North Avenue Allante James Sewell, 23, of Frankfort, […]

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Addison Director of Police William Hayden announced today that bond has been set for an Addison man accused of killing two men on Saturday, May 6, 2017. Jorge L. Vargas, 20 (d.o.b. 1-18-1997) of 537 N. Valerie Lane, Addison, appeared in Bond […]

Lombard police reported that an accident involving three vehicles-including a police patrol vehicle-took place at the intersection of Main Street and Wilson near Glenbard East High School at around 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 5. Police said the driver of a white Toyota traveling southbound on Main Street went through a […]