Residents looking to hit the jackpot on video gaming machines in Westmont will gave to go elsewhere to gamble, after the village has decided to ban the machines in the community.

Things at Community High School District 99 appear to be settling this week, with no new cases of confirmed H1N1 flu.

A former bank employee was sentenced Friday to 53 months in prison for stealing more than $140,000 from elderly customers, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.

After a case of H1N1 swine flu was confirmed Tuesday, Oct. 13, attendance at Downers Grove South High School was down Wednesday.

Thomas Bennington returned to the DuPage County Board this week for a 14-month stint. Bennington was tapped to take over for Kyle Gilgis, R-3rd District, of Downers Grove, who retired midterm in August.

A 14-year-old Naperville girl who died Thursday, Oct. 8 tested positive for swine flu, marking the first death in DuPage County from the new strain of the H1N1 virus.

It was a great debate that will never be settled: What would the Olympics have meant for Chicago?

With the announcement Friday, Oct. 2 that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 games — and, perhaps more surprising, that Chicago’s bid was eliminated in the first round of voting — advocates and opponents will be left guessing what the Olympics would have had in store for the entire region.

The appointment of the DuPage County Board District 3 seat is to be announced by Nov. 1.

Police said 48 pounds of marijuana and three guns were seized from a Downers Grove apartment and a hotel in Lombard after a drug investigation.

Three people from Chicago have been charged in connection with a kidnapping of a Lemont mother and her baby earlier this week.

The Illinois State Police and the Illinois Tollway will be hosting a Child Safety Seat event Saturday, Sept. 12, as part of “National Seat Check Saturday.”

Illinois State Police will be patrolling the Reagan Memorial Tollway eastbound at Meyers Road starting Friday night.

Patriots Park in Downers Grove will go to the dogs at the end of September when the West Suburban Humane Society will host its 16th annual Barkapalooza.

In the late 1970s, Susan Friend moved away from her family’s farm in central Illinois to begin what would be a dedicated career in providing at outlet for recreational activities.

UPDATED: Every time Diane Eenigenburg heard about American troops being killed in Afghanistan, she would be terrified her son was one of the casualties.