Toni Kokenis’ ability to score for the Hinsdale Central basketball team transitioned directly onto the soccer field this spring. The junior’s game-winner in the state championship match June 6 boosted her team-high total to 26.

ALSO INSIDE Stars from all of the spring girls sports form a talented all-area team.

Glenbard East High School seniors conclude their four years with their commencement at the College of DuPage Glen Ellyn campus on Sunday, June 7, 2009.

Had Lindsay Wallace been alive and living in the Hinsdale area during the Civil War, she said she would have fared all right, except for one thing.

The 2009 Lilac Parade is still a recent memory, but the theme for the 2010 parade, "Honor Your Heritage" has been chosen.

Memorial Day typically marks the unofficial start of summer, but the season came to Bartlett a few days earlier this year.

Ask Dan Karys for his favorite movie and instantly you get “Top Gun.” He estimates he’s seen it hundreds of times.

The 11th annual Fine Art Show was held Saturday and Sunday in downtown St. Charles.

The Memorial Day parade made it's way through downtown St. Charles today.

Robert E. Coulter Jr. Post 1941 American Legion marks Memorial Day at Lyons Township High School's north campus.

Six students from Riverside Brookfield High School said being in a drunken driving accident was unlike anything they have ever experienced before — even though it was all staged.

Bartlett facility thrives with personal touch from hometown owners

Oak Brook Women's Club holds their annual fashion show, following a luncheon at Drury Lane Oak Brook. The show is their biggest fundraiser of the year.

Students streamed out of Haines Middle School in the rain Thursday afternoon to a line of waiting buses and cars after St. Charles School District 303 officials closed the school due to a probable case of swine flu.

Senior and track newcomer Becca Cronin talks about switching from soccer to track and some of her favorite events.

Chef Jerry Navarro brings 30 years of gourmet cooking to the Onesti Dinner Club in St. Charles, which he is reshaping into an Italian steakhouse.

He gets a little divine inspiration from the dramatic setting, originally a church built in 1851.

“I came aboard to bring new items to the menu and a little twist to Italian,” said Navarro, an award-winning chef who credits the mentoring of his mother, Theresa, part of a long line of restaurateurs.