The building was unoccupied and no injuries were reported as a result of the fire. The building did not have a sprinkler system nor was it connected to the village fire alarm board, fire officials said.

Call it fate or good planning, Downers Grove had its own big draw going on Friday night. It was the first car show of the season, and a spokesman at Emmett’s Ale House, 5200 Main St., said they had a great weekend.

Although the primary protest against NATO occurred early Sunday afternoon and evening, traffic restrictions will still be in effect Monday.

When Patricia Withers left home Sunday morning, she also left her dependent 29-year-old autistic son behind with her husband, who had to fly back from his home in England. "Just in the event I get arrested," Withers said, "someone has to be here for him."

When Zaklina Trpenovski learned that President of the Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov was going to be in Chicago for the NATO summit, she thought it only natural to invite him to her church, Macedonian Orthodox Church Sts. Kiril and Metodij in Willowbrook.

With no major protests planned today in Chicago, downtown is quiet and emptier than usual.

Adler Planeterium, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Shedd Aquarium are some of the many museums closing their doors for the NATO summit.

Although NATO has dampened many people's plans, children at Montrose Harbor flew kites without fear during the somewhat controversial weekend.

As commuters boarded the Metra at the Lombard station earlier this morning, many said they were getting ready for the last "normal" commute until the NATO summit leaves downtown.

The primary audience to the protesters is really above their heads.

In a sea of red shirts and green hats, the National Nurses United descended on Daley Plaza to protest the economic policies they say benefit the wealthy at the cost of the workers of the nation.

Jamal Oliver, the father of 11-year-old drowning victim Jordan Oliver, addressed the media around 4 p.m. Wednesday, within viewing distance from where his beloved daughter perished after a game with friends took a fatal turn the day before.

The 11-year-old pulled from a Bolingbrook pond Tuesday afternoon has been identified as Jordan Oliver, a student at Pioneer School. She drowned after playing a "bridge jumping" game with other youths, according to police.

 The sculpture, resembling the gluttonous Jabba the Hutt, is a social comment on the city’s questionable parking policies and bloated bureaucracy, Belonio says.

The children, who call some of the largest slums of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, home, went through a nine-month selection process and were trained by mentors from Manav Sadhna, a non-profit organization based in Mahatma Gandhi’s Ashram, Ahmedabad, and teachers from Darpana Academy, to perform a 90-minute dance-drama production sharing Gandhi’s message of “Oneness”.

On April 22, Oberle was formally installed before his congregation by the Rev. Jonathan Knight, an associate Illinois Conference minister for the United Church of Christ. Also participating were the Rev. Kirk Moore, recently called pastor at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Downers Grove.

The parent organization of this website and its affiliated newspaper won a total of 67 awards in this year's Illinois Press Association competition.

Dave Hubinek spent several years driving a truck for FedEx, worked as a driver for contractors for two years and owned five trucks of his own for eight. But the difficult schedule left the 33-year-old Carol Stream resident wanting to spend more time with his family, so he sold his routes. His “entrepreneurial spirit” led him to start a taxi service, he said, which he currently still owns — but it didn’t turn out as well as he expected.

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