By Illinois News Network House Democrats on Thursday rushed through a vote on a stopgap spending bill to provide more than $800 million to human service providers and higher education programs for the final three months of the current fiscal year. Republicans called it irresponsible, saying it will only make […]

By Jane Charmelo Lombardian-Villa Park Review Staff reporter This is the first in a series of five profiles of Lombard’s 2017 Lilac Court. The five members of this year’s court were selected following preliminary judging in February. Two members of the court—Taylor Balsitis and Kyla Denwood—are students at Willowbrook High […]

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK The Illinois House overwhelmingly approved legislation last week that would allow voters to dissolve townships that share boundaries with a municipality. House Bill 496, sponsored by State Rep. Tom Demmer, R-Dixon, passed by a vote of 111-2. If approved in the Senate and signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner, the […]

ECPA to meet with local teachers, administrators After extensive planning, the Elmhurst Centre for Performing Arts (ECPA) initiative was presented to the community about a year ago with the goal of building a center for music, theater, dance and comedy anchored in Elmhurst. Momentum continues to build, thanks to a […]

All three props in Addison Township pass By Dee Longfellow For The Independent   With only one contested race on the entire City slate in Elmhurst, Election night was a bit slow, but in a good way — no one was nervous about any close fights. The contested election was […]

Virgils seek allowance to keep membrane structure in yard, court fees By Dee Longfellow For The Elmhurst Independent Late last week, the Independent learned that on March 23, a complaint for administrative review was filed by Nicole and Dan Virgil in the DuPage County Circuit Court against the City of […]

Senior project manager for McHugh Construction had to move “Michael Jordan” By Dee Longfellow For The Elmhurst Independent An Elmhurst resident is living her dream with a well-respected company well known to Elmhurst that has allowed her to work as a senior project manager on a new atrium addition at […]

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK Illinois recently passed a milestone. The state’s backlog of unpaid bills topped $12.8 billion, enough to put every man, woman, and child on the hook for $1,000 in debt. But one state lawmaker says Illinois is in far worse shape than that. There are slightly less than […]

Speaker: Dist. 205 admin has ‘utterly wrecked parent-teacher relationships’ and trust By Dan McLeister
For The Elmhurst Independent Seven hundred parents have signed a petition questioning the use of “student-led conferences,” which are being implemented at Sandburg Middle School where regular parent-teacher conferences have previously been held. The student-led conference program […]

Support for redistricting reform; pension reform hard because unions opposed ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK Senate President John Cullerton gave some candid remarks at the Elmhurst College 8th annual Governmental Forum on Friday, April 1, advocating for redistricting reform and blaming state unions’ lack of support for the General Assembly’s failure to […]