Secretary of State Jesse White told Park Junior High School seventh and eighth graders he believes in tough love, working hard and that while the crowded auditorium could sing together, they could not all speak at the same time.
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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.
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.
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.
Residents have called the boarded up historic Arcade Building an eyesore, but the village, local artists and Riverside Brookfield High School students are teaming up to beautify the building again.
Teachers and faculty at Riverside Brookfield High School take on the students' ultimate Frisbee team Nov. 10.
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Lyons Township High School is one of 64 schools in the state to receive the Bright A+ award based on academic performance, putting it in the top 5 percent in the state.
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.
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.
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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.
Christos Taltsidis started in the fur business when he was 13 in his native Greece sweeping floors, sewing small pieces of fur, breaking a lot of needles and getting his bosses upset.
Two men were charged in connection with two Brookfield residential burglaries that occurred Oct. 26.
