Check out police and fire reports for La Grange, Brookfield, Riverside and Westchester.

If you’ve ever wanted to take a closer look at the Gold Jerusalem stone, 4,000-pound grand entrance doors to the home at 6501 County Line Road, Burr Ridge, all you need is a ticket.

Hinsdale residents will have a year to consider a 1 percent retail sales tax referendum following the Village Board’s decision Monday to move the referendum to November 2010.

Baby squirrels may have been a reason for last year’s split between the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County and a charitable group that raises money to fund the rehabilitation of wild animals.

The Forest Preserve has filed suit against the DuPage Wildlife Foundation, claiming the organization is holding on to charity money that should belong to the district’s Willowbrook Wildlife Center.

Check out police and fire reports for Hinsdale and Darien.

Members of the U.S. Army’s 447th Airborne Military Company can expect care packages to come their way this holiday season, courtesy of residents from Brookfield.

The Hinsdale Central High School girl’s tennis team will collect used tennis racquets and warm-ups to donate to the West Suburban Tennis Patrons, Inc. at two Hinsdale drop-off locations.

The Clarendon Hills Park District will begin accepting registration for the fall 2010 program session of its Active Learners Preschool Dec. 1.

When Sergio Lopez of Joliet moves into his new Hillside home around Memorial Day next year, it will serve as proof that good people do good things for good people.

Riverside Brookfield High School Township District 208’s Board of Education wants parents and community members to share their ideas on what kind of leader the new principal should be.

Riverside Brookfield High School Interim Superintendent Dave Bonnette will hold his third Friday Forum at 9 a.m. Dec. 4 at the high school, 160 Ridgewood Road, Riverside.

Hinsdale South High School honor student Talia Avci admits she is an idealist who one day would like to be an environmental engineer and have a hand in solving global warming.

Frank and Vera Catura were entertaining a guest in their backyard on 10th Avenue, and without a sound, he ran off to meet a lady friend down the street.

The Hinsdale Humane Society has adopted out 16 kittens in November as part of the organization’s  “Fall in Love” kitten adoption special, and now the organization has added a wrinkle to the initiative.
 

Registration still is being taken for the Breakfast With Santa, scheduled for two seatings Dec. 5, according to Hinsdale’s Parks and Recreation Department.