The late Rev. George Knapp was not a man to blow his own horn, although no one would have questioned him if he did.

Be sure to get your books now because the Brookfield Public Library is slated to close Nov. 23 for renovations, which could last two months.

The Census Bureau is now hiring to fill enumerator positions.

A 21-year-old man is in police custody after leading police on a short chase through a cemetery where he drove over gravestones, knocking over one of them.

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

An 81-year-old La Grange Park woman found beaten and unconscious in her home Oct. 29 died early Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Loyola University Medical Center.

La Grange Highlands Middle School, 1850 W. Plainfield Road, honors veterans at an afternoon ceremony.

Four female students have been suspended for fighting at Riverside Brookfield High School.

Before the Metra came to town, Brookfielders got around on a streetcar line. Here are five things you probably didn’t know about the Brookfield streetcar system.

For the first time, the Brookfield Police Department is engaging in what officers hope will be a holiday tradition — shopping with children who have been affected by the tough economy.

Saying no to taking the census is like saying no to money, literally.

Two men were charged in connection with two Brookfield residential burglaries that occurred Oct. 26.

Two Berwyn men were charged in connection with two Brookfield residential burglaries that occurred Oct. 26.

Stone Park Police have charged 30-year-old Nicholas Carrino of Westchester with the murder of a Niles man who was found shot in the chest following an altercation Wednesday morning, Nov. 4.

Brookfield Zoo officials denied Suburban Life’s Freedom of Information Act request for the release of Affie the elephant’s necropsy report in a letter Oct. 29.