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A nasty dispute between co-owners of Brown's Chicken & Pasta of Elmhurst has prompted the restaurant company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Share + Comments Dec 30, 2009 11:18 am US/Central Elmhurst-based Brown's Chicken & Pasta has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

A daughter accused of fatally shooting her father in his Villa Park business will testify at her trial next month that she killed him in self-defense. The new details were revealed Tuesday as lawyers argued some final motions in preparation for the Jan.

A Bellwood man has received a 30-year sentence for his involvement in the shooting deaths of two people at a local gas station in 2002.

Tricia Verpaele and her mother Nancy Verpaele of Villa Park look at a pet supplies booth in Yorktown Center on the last weekend before Christmas.

Two men, one from Chicago, were charged Friday for allegedly robbing a liquor store Thursday night in west suburban Villa Park.

Authorities believe a 70-year-old Villa Park man suffered a medical emergency that led to a three-car crash Monday morning.

Two brothers from southwest suburban Plano used the store they operated as a headquarters for a drug distribution operation, a criminal complaint filed by the FBI on Monday alleges.

Just days after Eboo Patel became the first Muslim to address the Greater Chicago Leadership Breakfast, the Chicago activist faced a decidedly different audience on Monday: high school student leaders.

Plagued by declining enrollment and high tuition, another Catholic school may be forced to close or dramatically reinvent itself.

Seamen Zach Gonick, left, and Dominic Herring play a Wii game as Jacob Webb takes advantage of the opportunity to call friends and family during a Thanksgiving celebration at the Villa Park VFW Post 2801.

Service organizations, such as the Moose Lodge in Wauconda as well as area American Legions, VFW posts and churches, host recruits from the Great Lakes Naval Station each year.

Mary and Bob Flynn of Morris will celebrate their 59th anniversary on Wednesday, Nov.

I love rock 'n' roll. You don't have to hang around me very long to find that out.

Elmhurst. IL - Stealing a tactic from Barack Obama's playbook, Chris Nybo of Elmhurst, a one-time Democratic operative running for state representative, personally challenged the petitions of Michael Manzo on Monday, the last day to file objections to candidate petitions.

The Kiwanis Club of Lombard would like to thank the many people who donated baby items to our collection during Make a Difference Day on Oct.

Leaders of Chicagoland's Muslim community gathered here Saturday evening to celebrate, but they could not ignore the fact a fellow Muslim is believed to be responsible for Thursday's massacre in Fort Hood, Tex.

Critics of legalized video gambling in bars and restaurants across the state appear to be on the ropes after facing a major setback in the push to stop the massive expansion approved this summer.

A Thursday afternoon drug-related kidnapping that erupted into an early Friday police chase on the South Side has ended in the arrests of four men Saturday morning.

Ashley Clarke, student, Elmhurst: "Any kind of clown. They are scary." Alex Boven, student, Villa Park: "Luigi was pretty awesome." Brian Morgan, student, Lombard: "Wario from Super Mario Bros.