Riverside's Olmsted Society focuses it's annual House Walk on the Arts and Crafts Influence.

Former Nurse gives the greater part of her off-time to the church.

Each day, Martha Rivas goes to work at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital and helps feed, bathe and transfer patients in the medical/surgical ward. Using her firm but soothing hands to help ailing charges, the patient care technician relies on touch to aid in the healing process.

A chain reaction accident caused a 300-foot tower used for Internet communications to fall on a tanker truck Wednesday morning on Lemont road near the Darien and Woodridge border, closing traffic between Internationale Parkway and 103rd Street. The tower and truck have been removed and all lanes are now open, according to Woodridge Police.

Lyons Township faced Oak Park River Forest in a lacrosse match at Lyons Township.

Solutions for the overcrowding situation at Clarendon Hills Middle School remain a question mark for Community Consolidated School District 181. Redistricting may be in the district’s future.

Ecology class students at Glenbard East planted plants in the prairie area south of the school. The plantings were part of class project to restore the area.

For the past six years, Southwest Airlines Capt. Art George has spoken to St. Joseph School fifth-graders about planes — from how they are capable of flying to why passenger’s ears pop.

In hopes of jump-starting the struggling economy, the federal government began sending out tax rebates last week. Retailers are hoping to lure shoppers with special deals, but economists and taxpayers have questioned how effective the plan will be in staving off a recession.

This past weekend's Glen Ellyn-Wheaton CROP Walk is on track to raise the most donations yet, just in time to help local food banks contending with the rising cost of commodities.

Muddy Waters and the blues were alive last week in Westmont, but pretty soon, they could be taking the country by storm.

Slow and steady the historic 1846 Blodgett House in Downers Grove began its move from 812 Randall St. to Downers Grove Park District Museum campus at 831 Maple Ave. on Monday.

Several memorable characters created by Dr. Seuss including Horton the elephant, the Cat in the Hat and a cast of Whos will hit the stage soon when St. Mary Gostyn School in Downers Grove puts on the spring musical, “Seussical Jr.”

Westmont High School held a dramatization of a Prom Night gone wrong when alcohol and driving are mixed together last Friday night.

McCook Acting Mayor Jeff Tobolski dedicated the village's Municipal building to his dad, the late Mayor Raymond J. Tobolski, on Thursday.