Willow Springs News

Cantigny Post 367 VFW: Every 3rd Friday of the month, Polka music by Bob Mutz with "BIG" John Churnovic at Cantigny Post 367 VFW.

Richard Pelligrino and Tom Krause present a check from Pace in the amount of $51,001 to the Township of Lyons Board of Trustees at the May 12th Board Meeting.

Authorities are asking for the public's help identifying a woman whose body was found in the Des Plaines River near southwest suburban Willow Springs last month in DuPage County.

DuPage County authorities and the Illinois State Police are trying to identify remains of a woman found in the Des Plaines River near Willow Springs.

The six-year veteran director of the Pleasant Dale Park District was abruptly fired from her job by a new Board of Commissioners majority during a specially called meeting just hours before the start of the Memorial Day weekend May 22.

For the first time in decades, sludge processing operations conducted by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District plant in nearby Stickney - and in particular a 60-foot-tall oven there built to cook sewage into fertilizer - is turning heads.

A Willow Springs Village Board trustee who just won reelection to a full four-year term of office in the April 7 elections, has resigned from his position.

George Strait: The country legend performs with Blake Shelton and Julianne Hough at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park.

Lisa James, of Blue Island, has received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award at St.

Comedy Comedy at the Roundhouse: Mark Sweeny, May 15 and 16. $15. Regular show times are 8:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 8 p.m. Saturdays .

The multi-lane, 50-year-old Tri-State Tollway - which runs through parts of Bridgeview, Justice, Willow Springs, Hodgkins, Countryside and Indian Head Park - will be widened and its toll plazas will become barrier-free in the near future, thanks to a half-billion-dollar sale of bonds created by the federal economic stimulus package.

You're never too little to be creative. The art exhibition at Kensington School of the Highlands stands as proof of that.

There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the multistate Mega Millions lottery - to $181 million.

The Bridgeview Village Board approved a resolution at its April 15 meeting that formalizes intergovernmental agreements between the Bridgeview Emergency Management Agency and several area local entities that occasionally call upon it for help.

Apr 16, 2009 1:50 pm US/Central CHICAGO Homeowners are urged to use caution when choosing home repair and remodeling contractors after the Attorney General's office filed seven lawsuits against businesses for allegedly defrauded consumers of more than $476,000 in down payments.

With just five days before voters go to the polls and elect new or the same municipal, school, park, library and school board candidates, a few key contested races are piquing people's interests - particularly in the three Desplaines Valley area high school districts, as well as Lyons, Brookfield, Justice, Bedford Park and even Willow Springs.

I was going to devote my election-week column today to some type of candate-inspired rant about negative campaigning, voter apathy, the antics of political website creators or how the petition challenge and electoral board process needs to be seriously reformed.

With less than two weeks before voters in communities across the Desplaines Valley area prepare to vote for or against current established administrations or promised reform candidate slates, the political activities of the past few months have proven anything but boring.

It looks like incumbent Willow Springs Mayor Alan Nowaczyk will be running an uncontested candidacy for reelection after all.

Croatian Cultural Club: Friday Fish Frys at the Croatian Club from 4 to 7 p.m. White fish, perch, catfish, shrimp and boneless chicken breasts.