Dupage County News Archives

In Dupage County it was a C-S-I Halloween. The Sheriff's office is going high-tech to make sure your kids' treats aren't trouble in pretty wrapping.

A drug-related kidnapping on Chicago's South Side erupted into a police chase that ended early today in the northwest suburbs.

Four people suspected of kidnapping a man on Thursday afternoon are in custody early this morning after several police agencies were involved in a pursuit along the Eisenhower Expressway that ended in DuPage County.

The DuPage County Health department received its second shipment of the H1N1 vaccine Wednesday afternoon, accepting another 6,000 doses of the inhalable mist form.

An Illinois legal-reform group released a study Wednesday suggesting Cook County is squandering millions of dollars annually with a lax approach to fighting frivolous lawsuits.

Cedric Flax bet his freedom that a DuPage County jury would find his testimony more believable than the 26-year-old mother of two he was accused of kidnapping and raping - along with a cadre of police and medical officials siding with his accuser.

It didn't take long for the knives to come out in the Republican battle for Illinois governor.

This is no time to panic over the H1N1 flu shot. That's the message DuPage County Board members heard Tuesday from Maureen McHugh, executive director of the DuPage County Health Department, when she came to update them on efforts to minimize the damage done locally by the novel flu virus.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 1:15 pm US/Central ELMHURST, Ill. A new west suburban resident will have to move again after it was discovered he is a child sex offender living near a dance school.

Martin says morally corrupt DuPage County leaders are willingly taking Mark Kirka s a oedirty dollarsa from Washington lobbyists and special interests.

Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan is skipping the first day to file nominating petitions today, but that doesn't mean he won't be in the governor's race.

Testimony of the 26-year-old mother of two who DuPage County prosecutors say was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint by an Aurora man just before Christmas last year resumes today.

Local Muslims will soon have a new, nearby place to gather and worship, if the DuPage County Board agrees with its Development Committee - and rejects the recommendation of its zoning board.

Two people have been shot and critically wounded during a home invasion in unincorporated Glen Ellyn.

Rape victim: Dugan threatened my sisters Rape victim: Dugan threatened to kill me, sisters if I watched him flee SENTENCING Testifies he ordered her not to look as he fled Comments October 21, 2009 After kidnapping the 21-year-old woman at knifepoint and raping her, Brian Dugan thumbed through his victim's wallet and pulled out a family picture ...

The Aurora man who told Naperville police he had been beaten and stabbed in an armed robbery outside the Key Wester restaurant last weekend was lying, officials said, and he now faces a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report.

The defense called for a mistrial Wednesday as jurors were rushed out of the courtroom following questions posed by prosecutors to the father of one of Brian Dugan's victims.

Republicans don't hold a single statewide elected office in Illinois, but the crowded field of GOP candidates for governor wants to change that by pointing out their differences with Democrats.

The Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County on Tuesday unanimously approved the filing of a lawsuit against the DuPage Wildlife Foundation to protect the District's legal right to contributions made for the benefit of the District's Willowbrook Wildlife Center.

Two women testified today to being abducted and terrified by a young Brian Dugan in 1983 and 1985 before he was arrested for the murders of 27-year old Donna Schnorr and 7-year old Melissa Ackerman.

Over the past month, fuel prices have decreased in Illinois and northern Indiana, giving more relief to consumers.

Bob Schillerstrom wants a new law requiring 72-hour public inspection of the state budget.

A person is dead after the car they were inside plunged into a retention pond near a restaurant in west suburban Lombard Sunday night, police said.

A 17-year-old Villa Park man is being held on $1 million bond in the DuPage County jail in connection with an attack on a former girlfriend.

A former Wheaton banker who prosecutors say plundered the accounts of elderly customers to pay for orthodontics for her children and other personal expenses is sentenced today to 53 months in prison.

A 14-year-old Naperville North High School student who died suddenly last week had swine flu.

Share + Oct 15, 2009 8:42 am US/Central DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. Downers Grove District 99 is reporting two probable cases of H1N1 at Downers Grove South High School the western suburb.

At his home office in Elk Grove Village, Kevin Carney would sit in front of six computers buzzing with stock information, according to his clients.

An Elk Grove Village man held in the DuPage County Jail is accused of bilking more than $3 million from dozens of would-be investors.

A Carol Stream man with apparent mental health issues remained in custody Monday after he was accused of killing his family's new puppy.

As Naperville students return to school this morning, they placed flowers and notes by the locker of Michelle Fahle, a classmate who died last week after contracting the H1N1 flu virus.

State Sen. Kirk Dillard is hopeful Monday's endorsement of his gubernatorial run by longtime Illinois Republican Party standard-bearer Jim Edgar will be the shot in the arm his campaign needs to separate it from the packed GOP field.

Michelle Fahle liked hugs. The 14-year-old declared it proudly on her Facebook page and demonstrated it when she threw her arms around her best friends before class each day, even when she embraced a friend who complained of feeling sick two weeks ago.

A teenage Naperville school girl who died Thursday tested positive for the H1N1 "swine flu" virus, but officials are still looking into whether an underlying condition caused her death.

After he received life sentences for two murders, Brian Dugan gave authorities details linking him to the unsolved 1977 sexual assault of an Elmhurst teacher, an investigator testified Friday.

A suburban Chicago lawyer is set to formally announce his candidacy for Illinois attorney general.

A former cheerleading school owner faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing an underage girl at the school in 2006.

Health officials said they are investigating the sudden death of a 14-year-old Naperville North High School student today.

DuPage County Sheriff John Zaruba announced the arrest of Steven Cooper, of Glen Ellyn, for criminal usury and eavesdropping, in a statement released Wednesday.

Two Aurora men accused of murder face new charges after attacking a fellow inmate at the Kane County courthouse in St.

An Aurora woman was charged Monday with facilitating the rape of a preteen female relative.

Jeanine Nicarico's murderer, Brian Dugan, qualifies for the death penalty under four separate guidelines set by state law, prosecutors told a DuPage County jury this morning.

Share + Oct 6, 2009 6:37 am US/Central ELMHURST, Ill. A familiar face may be ready to run for governor again, eight years after he mounted an unsuccessful campaign against since-deposed Gov.

CHICAGO - A federal judge on Monday ordered an electronic ankle bracelet and no Internet for the suburban Chicago man accused of stalking and secretly videotaping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews.

The Supreme Court has refused to revive a libel claim against the Chicago Tribune by a former prosecutor who accused the newspaper of a "witch hunt" against him.The court on Monday turned down an appeal from former DuPage County, Ill., Assistant State's Attorney Thomas Knight.

That helmet of jet-black hair and his almost-too-toothy grin might be what people familiar with the case first envision when thinking about the boy nicknamed "DuPage Johnny Doe." He appears more pensive in later artists' renderings, but in the early ones he beams a smile designed to light up the world, and radiates an "I can't wait" eagerness for ...

Bond is set at $200,000 for a West Chicago man accused of selling drugs near a school.

The man, police said, was caught in the alleged act of tending to his illegal crops.

A 25-year-old woman has been placed on two years of court supervision in connection with a drunken-driving crash in which she knocked down a fire hydrant, smashed through a security fence and ended up mired in the sand on Centennial Beach near downtown Naperville.