Oswego News

A 5-year-old girl apparently drowned Saturday night while surrounded by relatives at a gathering in southwest suburban Orland Park, police said.

Inclement weather and poor conditions have conspired to force postponement of Saturday's Fourth of July fireworks display in Oswego.

When Donaciano Reyes moved from Cicero to Oswego five years ago, he was trying to get his family away from a gang-plagued environment.

State Rep. Tom Cross said this week that he understands the problems of community service agencies worried about losing state funding.

Share + Jul 1, 2009 6:22 pm US/Central WHEATON, Ill. 1 of 1 Larry Larson, 42, was arrested and charged with indecent solicitation of a child, traveling to meet a minor and grooming, all felonies, according to Naperville police.

Kendall County Republican voters will once again find Sheriff Richard Randall's name on their ballots during next year's primary election.

A federal jury has found that a 33-year-old Oswego man did pull the trigger in a Mother's Day 2003 shooting, making him eligible for a life sentence.

Members of the Environmentally Conscious Oswego Commission urged the village board this past week to keep the village's water conservation ordinance in place.

The Oswego Village Board has turned down a request from Meijer to allow a business to operate out of a trailer in the store's parking lot at U.S. Route 34 and Douglas Road in the village.

Oswego School District Board members received a progress report last week on several construction projects now underway at district schools in Oswego, Aurora, Montgomery and the unincorporated Boulder Hill Subdivision.

Aurora street gang member Steven Perez was found guilty early Friday afternoon on federal racketeering charges.

The first year of a three-year pilot full-day kindergarten program in the Oswego School District has been termed a success, financially and academically by administrators.

Two masked gunman entered a McDonald's in west suburban Oswego early this morning, struck a worker with the butt of a handgun and robbed the restaurant before fleeing on foot, police say.

Two men armed with black handguns held up an Oswego McDonalds just before 5 a.m. Wednesday, taking an undetermined amount of money.

With the steep downturn in the economy over the past year, we really like the theme the Oswegoland Park District has picked out for the annual PrairieFest community celebration which starts today, Thursday, in Oswego and continues through Sunday.

Outgoing Oswego School Superintendent Dr. David Behlow was honored at last week's school board meeting by State Rep.

Gregg A. Melton, 34, 500 block of south Green Street, was charged with battery after a report of a 14-year-old being battered by an adult around 12:40 a.m. Saturday, Sandwich police said.

Chicago already has more than 2,000 bus shelters and sidewalk billboards that carry advertising and generate sorely needed revenue.

For the past several months, Illinois lawmakers have been attempting to solve the state's budget mess.

The Oswego School District is considering 121 acres surrounded by fields on the community's southern edge as the possible site for a new high school and junior high.