Chicago Home Inspection

There's Google Books, and Google Shopping and Google Earth, not to mention Gmail and, oh right, the search engine. Now get ready for Google Naperville.

Skip Searcy is more than a fan of Up With People, a high-energy entertainment group that will be performing this weekend in Naperville. As a former cast member whose daughter also performed in a tour, Searcy has seen firsthand the group's ability to inspire audiences with messages of hope and goodwill.

Few were able to digest Gov. Pat Quinn's noon hour budget address Wednesday, which included a proposed 33 percent income tax increase that he said would prevent deep cuts to education funding.

Either she was being extra-special-good or she gets an extra-special-bad rap in some quarters. Unabashed lush, some sneer. Horribly mean to Rosie O'Donnell. One of the undisputed bad girls of the Aughts.

An Irish Mass will honor St. Patrick on Thursday at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Naperville. Irish Week culminates Saturday with Naperville's annual parade stepping off at 10 a.m.

Authorities say four coyotes were captured near Wheaton and killed on Monday — the same day the city announced it had hired a trapper to get rid of them. Officials said professional trapper Rob Erickson caught the coyotes in an unincorporated area near the Chicago Golf Club.

After listening to Gov. Quinn's speech on the state's proposed 2011 budget, I'm thinking very seriously of running ... for the hills. The hills of Utah, that is. Or maybe the prairies of Nebraska Or the plains of Texas.

DuPage County officials are trying to put some real teeth into their preventive health care services.

Fox Valley Genealogical Society's March meeting is "Overview of Internet Subscription Databases."

The good news is, the red-light cameras are working. Of course, that's the bad news, too. Statistics released from both the city's police department and finance department over the past two weeks indicate the cameras are getting people to stop. However, that means the city will be collecting a lot less revenue than expected.

A DuPage County jury has sentenced three-time convicted murderer Edward Tenney, 50, to death for the 1992 shooting death of a 24-year-old Aurora man in a robbery that netted $6.

A 24-year-old Naperville man found himself charged with disorderly conduct after trying to enter the house where he used to live and, in the process, badly frightening the family living there now.

When the city of Naperville says the word "green," it's meant literally. Two inspectors in a green van pulled up to Naperville resident Hank Verbooman's drive one day in December, unloaded their gadgets, and got to work investigating Verbooman's house. They tested for air leaks, searched for energy-burning incandescent light bulbs, and most importantly to Verbooman, verified that his furnace was ready for an upgrade.

A man accused by police of "making a career" out of bilking businesses with phony checks and counterfeit merchandise bar codes over the past several years faces deportation. Darius Teresius, 29, of Glen Ellyn, had 14 warrants out for his arrest when he was taken into custody recently by Naperville police.

The Illinois Department of Transportation is seeking comment from the public about traffic congestion at the railroad crossing on Ogden Avenue (Route 34) on Aurora's far East Side.

Rewards were posted Tuesday for information about two unrelated home burglaries on Naperville's near west and southwest sides.

A Wheaton couple has filed a lawsuit in DuPage County Circuit Court saying that their son became ill with shigella poisoning after eating at the Subway restaurant at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road in Lombard.

Edward Hospital is among the first hospitals in the country to make emergency room wait times available via text message, online and by phone.

With autism more prevalent on the public radar than ever before, it would seem reasonable to suppose there is greater understanding of the disability than in the past. That may be true, but advocates say there's still plenty of work to be done.

In a 6-1 vote Monday night, the Naperville District 203 Board of Education approved a three-year contract with teachers in the 1,350-member Naperville Unit Education Association. Superintendent Mark Mitrovich said the new contract fiscally sound.