Naperville News

The Chamber presents the award annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the community through their business, service, philanthropy, and dedication to making Naperville a great place to live and work.

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These are incidents reported by the Naperville Police Department. Where charges have been filed, the report includes when and where the suspect was stopped or taken into custody and the nature of the charges.

No one was injured about 2:15 p.m. Friday, when the driver of a silver, four-door BMW 3281 apparently lost control of the vehicle and crashed it into the glass front door of the Subway sandwich shop at 2048 Aurora Ave. on Naperville's west side.

The second of two Chicago men implicated in a string of catalytic converter thefts in Naperville and Aurora has been sentenced to jail in one of those crimes.

A man from Naperville's far south side has been sentenced to jail and placed on probation, for his role in last summer's delivery to his home of a package containing five pounds of marijuana.

Prescription drug take-back boxes will be available outside Naperville's 10 fire stations and inside the lobby of police headquarters beginning Tuesday.

Naperville neighborhoods will soon have pairs of receptacles lined up side by side at the curb on garbage pick-up day.

Naperville North High School students pitched their ideas for sustainability last week when they took part in DuPage County's eighth annual SCARCE Sustainable Design Challenge.

All indications are that Naperville doesn't have a problem with housing discrimination, and the city's Fair Housing Advisory Commission wants to keep it that way.

More than a decade after he served in Congress and two years into his prison sentence, Rod Blagojevich's federal campaign account made its final donation this week.

More than 30 nonprofits that serve current and former military service members shared information at a "Joining Forces" breakfast meeting Thursday at the Judd Kendall VFW Post in Naperville.

North Central College in Naperville invites community members to join in for the eighth annual day of service on May 3. The event, called Intersection, begins at 7:45 a.m. Volunteers can choose one of two locations to gather and register: in Naperville in the lobby at Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Ave., and in Plainfield at Grace Pointe ... (more)

In an effort to streamline library services and access to materials, the Naperville Library Board of Trustees Wednesday night approved a change in its loan period policy which will allow patrons to keep materials for an extended period of time.

Joseph T. Dauben just might be having a cow, after being accused of being the tagger who last summer left graffiti inspired by "The Simpsons" animated television series at several locations in and near downtown Naperville.

A 15-year-old Naperville boy called 911 after being disciplined by his mother, police said.

April 15 Brayan Rodriguez-Esparza, 21, of the 6300 block of Blue Ridge Drive, Plainfield, was arrested by Lockport police and booked into the Will County jail on a charge of controlled substance trafficking, according to jail records.

Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi will visit Anderson's Bookshop on April 26 to discuss his picture book "Grandfather Gandhi."

Volunteer workers chip in their services by shoveling mulch during the Forest Preserve District of Will Countys Community volunteer work day in 2013.

It was a day for the birds, exotic ones specifically, at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville as the theater celebrated the opening of the new movie "Rio 2" last weekend by offering a special charity event and promotion that featured some of the same species of birds used in the movie.