Burr Ridge News

Numbers don't always tell the whole story, according to Darien Police Chief Robert Pavelchik.

Chiro One Wellness Center of Burr Ridge, 316 Burr Ridge Parkway is hosting its annual Share the Abundance Food Drive from Nov.

Yet another high-profile Chicago property auction hasn't gone exactly as it was planned or promoted First it was the old Chicago Post Office.

Search the 2009 school report cards for all public schools in the state. New this year in the Sun-Times Media report card search: Find out where each elementary, middle and high school ranked in Illinois.

IfDuPageCounty'slargest township GOP organization canpredict the winner of next February's primary, DuPage County could elect a woman to be county board chairman in 2010.

DuPage County Board member Debra Olson was the frontrunner in a straw poll held Oct.

School administrators and teachers seem to agree that the annual state report cards, intended as a measure of how a school is measuring up in terms of educating its students, are based on a single snapshot of how students performed on a single test on a single day.

Bridges in Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook are in relatively good shape, according to a recently launched Illinois Department of Transportation Web site that allows consumers to see the results of regular bridge inspections.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook police departments.

A family of four dogs that have been orphaned since September may have a new home.

This lakeside home on 15 acres in Marengo, previously valued at $3.9 million, was auctioned last week with a minimum bid of $1.675 million.

A former student at a Fargo Roman Catholic high school is suing his former teacher, the school, the Fargo Catholic Diocese and others, saying he was sexually assaulted on a school-sponsored trip in 1977.

With no hordes of buyers in sight, builders of some of the area's most expensive homes are trapped in a down market Don Ciaglia, a long-time builder, built this home in early 2008 and he keeps showing the home but there are no interested buyers.

For almost 10 years now one DuPage County organization has been hitting the hallways of local schools throughout the western suburbs to give students another option when it comes to teen sex: Wait.

The palatial Villa Taj estate in Burr Ridge has a 4,000-pound front door -- but no buyers are knocking on it, so the owner is slashing the price.

The village of Burr Ridge is taking a stand against video gaming. At Monday evening's board meeting, trustees directed staff to draft an ordinance to prohibit video gambling in Burr Ridge.

The Saia trucking company near Burr Ridge is working with DuPage County to fix the wetland buffer that the company cleared a few months back, but neighbors wish the 24-hour operation would also do something to correct what they consider noise pollution.

Potential buyers and curious admirers turned out this weekend for the first of several open houses to be held in preparation for the Nov.

Prisoners headed to Joliet's Stateville Correction Center had a small detour Tuesday morning when their bus broke down on the Stevenson Expressway near west suburban Burr Ridge.

Katie Shean Zapata , director of organizational development for Rasmussen College, Burr Ridge, graduated from the 2009 Rasmussen Leadership Institute, a training and professional development program for a select group of the education's future leaders.