Batavia News

Barely a week after Batavia celebrated its 175th anniversary, Batavia MainStreet presented its second annual house walk Saturday featuring five homes that offered visitors a peek into different styles and eras.

Seven people were charged with felonies Wednesday after they were part of a group that kicked down a door and threw a brick through a window at a backyard barbecue in Aurora at 11:24 p.m. Monday, the Kane ...

Tickets are available for the 2008 Batavia House Walk. The walk is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and features five homes and a tea at the Batavia Depot Museum.

On Sunday, 14-year-old Lauren Bartow did something no one else will do for the next century.

A veteran Beacon News writer and editor has been named to the newspaper's top editorial position.

BATAVIA Nine-year-old Lilly Rutter had a little trouble turning the crank on the 1920s corn sheller.

A 25-year-old man was convicted this week of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in St.

An Aurora man was convicted Wednesday in a 2002 sexual assault where he showed the victim a gun.

The world's largest retailer continues to move forward with its plans to build along Kane County's busiest highway.

The Batavia park board will decide Friday whether to ask voters' permission to borrow money to build a recreation center at, and revamp, Quarry Beach Park.

Two people were hospitalized Tuesday after a boy playing with a lighter set fire to a two-unit home on Aurora's near West Side.

Residents can dismiss rumors that construction projects at Batavia schools are running behind schedule, School Superintendent Jack Barshinger said last week.

Several families next month will participate in a garage sale to raise money for roof repairs at the Congregational Church of Batavia.

In the battle against the gluttonous emerald ash borer, is it fair to force someone to cut down an infested tree in the hope that doing so will spare others? Rick West Kane County Forest Preserve naturalist ...

BATAVIA Raising her children in the Catholic faith is important to Julie VonDrasek of Batavia.

The thought of a heated legal battle regarding close to 1,600 acres is not something one would expect to entangle two area library boards.

The City of Batavia presents Little Town in a Big Woods , a pageant written by Batavia's resident historian and author Marilyn Robinson, as part of the city's 175th celebration.

Batavia Katherine L. Snyder, 17, 416 Meadowrue Lane, Batavia, was charged Monday, Aug.

Julie and Kara Salanicky are true connoisseurs of the Sonic brand, and their dedication proves it.

When Kai Schulte came to America from Germany in the early 1980s, the first place he called home was Batavia.