St. Charles News

GENEVA – Even with temperatures at a breezy 13 degrees, nothing could stop the crowds filling Third Street in Geneva on Friday night for the annual Christmas Walk celebration.

The St. Charles City Council on Monday night, Dec. 2, 2013, witnessed the swearing in of a returning firefighter and a new assistant fire chief.

ST. CHARLES – In hopes of capturing “St. Charles' charm,” the Greater St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau plans to roll out a new website as its launches a campaign to attract visitors to the area for winter getaways.

ST. CHARLES – The Downtown St. Charles Partnership has announced the float winners from last weekend's Electric Christmas Parade.

Country music superstar Wynonna Judd and her band, The Big Noise, headline a "A Simpler Christmas" at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles.

ST. CHARLES – The Downtown St. Charles Partnership Public Art Committee is selling trinket boxes to fund public arts projects in downtown St. Charles.

Angelo DiLiberti was a young teenager lying on his living room floor just outside Buffalo, N.Y., when the moment that set the course for his life occurred.

The St. Charles Holiday Homecoming weekend concluded Saturday, Nov. 30 with the Electric Christmas Parade attracting more than 15,000 people along Main Street, the largest attendance on record.

St. Charles resident Beckie Untiedt was volunteering at St. Mark's Abundant Blessings Shop, Dine and Find at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Charles when she answered 11 questions for the Kane County Chronicle's Brenda Schory.

SOURCE: St. Charles Police Department The St. Charles Police Department completed a two-week enforcement period in connection with a Traffic Safety Campaign, ending on Dec. 1, 2013.

ST. CHARLES – Kye D. Gaffey, the former superintendent of Illinois Prison Schools, was accepted into Kane County's pretrial diversion program Wednesday, court records show.

If you have an account with FedEx or UPS, you might want to check to make sure the shipping charges you are being billed for are all your packages, or your name could be tied to several scams used by hijackers of such accounts.

Imagine receiving a phone call like this: You spouse and children have been involved in an accident with my brother, who is a fugitive from the law and now is holding your family hostage and is demanding ransom.

An Elgin man who was charged recently with robbing businesses in South Elgin, St. Charles and Carpentersville has now been connected to the robbery of a North Aurora gas station, police said.

Editor's Note: Kendall County and Will County races will be included in a follow-up story in Thursday's paper.

Five young men have been cited with fighting, and disorderly conduct-public drunkenness after a fight broke out early Saturday at Cedar and North 2nd streets in downtown St. Charles.

St. Charles police were dispatched at 2:55 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 to the 300 block of South 7th Street after a resident reported hearing a snow plow, and when he went outside to see who was plowing, saw three people standing in his neighbor's driveway looking into the neighbor's vehicle.

On Dec. 11, Culver's restaurants in Huntley, South Elgin, Carpentersville and St. Charles will be among 74 Culver's in Illinois and Indiana to donate 10 percent of sales to the American Red Cross to help communities devastated last month by tornados and severe storms.

ON THE COVER: Joshua Black sits covered in lights near the Christmas tree in St. Charles.

ST. CHARLES – An open house will be held to honor retiring St. Charles Library Director Diana Brown, who served 35 years in the position.