Bartlett News

Traffic crackdowns funded with federal grant money putting extra police on the streets with overtime pay are going on in many Northwest suburbs through Memorial Day.

A Bartlett woman gave her driver's license number to a clerk when redeeming a store credit coupon during an April 10 shoplifting theft that sparked a wild, high-speed escape and led to her arrest Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by St.

Note: The following information was obtained from Algonquin Police Department arrest reports.

A 49-year-old Huntley man was arrested early Monday in Elgin and charged with his fifth DUI offense, according to police and court records.

Bail was set Friday for two men accused of burglarizing the Elgin Sam's Club earlier this month and then crashing into a police vehicle before leading officers on a 115-mile chase through northern Illinois and into Wisconsin.

A 71-year-old motorcycle driver attempting to pass a vehicle crashed on Blackman Drive at the intersection of Blackman Court around 3:05 p.m. May 6, Geneva police reports said.

Possession of Stolen Property Esteban Dayton, 31, 2790 Rhodes Apt. 8, Northlake, was arrested and charged with driving without registration, driving without insurance, improper use of registration, possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of a license plate sticker after police pulled over his black Chrysler 300 at County Line and ... (more)

Over the past two decades, School District U46 Board of Education members have heard a lot about Joyce Fountain's "babies," the 40,000-plus children in the second-largest school district in Illinois.

The new Bartlett village board after a swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. In the back row, from left, is Trustee Eric Shipman, Trustee T.L. Arends and Trustee Vincent Carbonaro.

The district attorney in Racine County, Wis., has declined the criminal charges that a pair of suburban men faced in connection to a burglary and high-speed case that started in Elgin and ended in Wisconsin early Saturday morning.

The Elgin Area School District U-46 school board will meet Monday evening to say goodbye to old members and welcome new ones as the results of the April election force a changing of the guard.

The Bartlett Volunteer Fire Association is sponsoring its 5th Annual Veterans Memorial Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 31, at the Bartlett Fire Barn, 218 S. Main St., Bartlett.

They're leaving in droves this month, most of them this week. Some were forced out in last month's elections.

The Amazing Improv-A-Maniacs: Super Springtime Comedy Extravaganza of the Ages at 7 p.m. May 3 at the auditorium at James "Pate" Phillip State Park, 2054 W. Stearns Road, Bartlett.

After his flight arrived Wednesday morning at Midway Airport in Chicago, he received a hero's welcome in the early afternoon at Pratts Wayne Woods in Bartlett by members of Warriors' Watch and Patriot Guard Riders.

The Altrusa International Club of Elgin Inc. has named Lillian Pagni of Hampshire the recipient of its Woman of the Year-2013 award.

Cardinal Francis George spent the afternoon walking the halls of the new Women and Children's Hospital, sprinkling holy water on the doors of those in intensive care, blessing the doctors and nurses and personally praying with many families, including women in labor, premature babies and sick children.

Hanover Township has started job counseling, where staff work one-on-one with residents to develop a personalized plan and employment search for all types of work.

Lemont High School students and staff members will team up this weekend to support Andrew Podczerwinski, a sophomore fighting to regain his mobility following a tragic accident that left him paralyzed last summer.

Students and faculty at Centennial Elementary School in Bartlett are mourning the loss of a sixth-grade girl who recently died after experiencing flu-like symptoms.