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Scott Lies and Friends will play the music of Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Joe Henderson, Bud Powell and others at 7 p.m. at Brookdale Music, 1550 N. Route 59, Naperville.

Column - Naperville's controversial Pickup Boys of Summer -- my name for them, not theirs -- is not exactly the kind of team Bill Conforti is used to throwing his weight behind.

A Naperville man has been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service work for driving while drunk and then beating a man and a woman outside a condominium complex.

Triathlons present a formidable challenge, even for seasoned veterans, but Saturday's NaperDink mini-triathlon was literally a breeze in the park.

An audience gathered Saturday at 3 p.m. on the west side of the DuPage River south of Lockport Street in Plainfield, where a deadly tornado cut a path 20 years earlier, a place to remember lives lost, lives changed, and a community rebuilt. The tornado struck Plainfield, Crest Hill and Joliet, killing 29 people.

A DuPage County Health Department inspection of Joy Yee Noodles in the wake of customer complaints found nothing amiss at the Naperville eatery.

The Sister Cities Commission -- 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Mayor's Conference Room of the Naperville Municipal Center.

For Naperville's Fire Chief Mark Puknaitis, his newest distinction has named him a CFO -- and while the title doesn't reflect profit margins and the bottom line, it does put him in some distinguished company.

A Chicago man is free on bail and awaiting trial for allegedly having used counterfeit money last winter to obtain goods and services from at least five businesses on Naperville's far west side. Edward O. Tharrington, 49, was arrested by Naperville police on an outstanding warrant for forgery.

The Oak Brook cop son of accused wife-killer Drew Peterson was suspended from his job, possibly for his part in hiding an assault rifle from the state police. Stephen Peterson, a 6-year veteran of the Oak Brook department, was put on paid administrative leave Friday. He declined to discuss the matter.

An Aurora woman who caused the 2007 drunk-driving crash that killed five Oswego teens was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison by a Kendall County judge. The prison term means Sandra Vasquez will have to spend at least 12-1/2 years behind bars for slamming her car into a utility pole while driving eight teens home from a party.

The 107th running of the Will County Fair is enjoying clear skies and sunshine. While taffy apples, cotton candy and carnival lights draw visitors to the midway, the vintage Exposition Building is filled with fine arts ranging from cooking and sewing to flowers and vegetables.

Tyrell Jackson, 22, was sentenced to 70 years in prison Thursday for shooting a Naperville man in a 2008 armed robbery at the man's Will County home. Tyrell Jackson, 22, of Villa Park is the fourth of five men to be sentenced for their roles in the April 1, 2008, slaying of John D. Rosales, of Naperville's Windridge neighborhood.

More walkable. More sustainable. More cultured. That's what the Downtown Advisory Committee has in mind for downtown Naperville over the next 20 years.

A 32-year-old mother faces trial on a charge of child neglect, after she allegedly admitted during a traffic stop she had left her two young children home by themselves in their Naperville apartment.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Experts say there is good news and bad news should an F5 magnitude tornado hit today in the Will County area, where there are more buildings and people than in 1990.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Although horrendous in terms of lives lost and injuries sustained, the Will County tornado of 1990 was also very costly in dollars. Homes, businesses, and other buildings sustained $165 million in damage.

Column: Every time there is a bad storm, bad enough where there might be some damaging winds or a tornado, my wife Tammy and I remember when our daughter, Jillian, learned what the word "hot" meant.

Students in Indian Prairie District 204 continue to improve their ACT scores. The recently released scores show average composite score reached 23.9, which is a 0.1 increase over last year's average score. The increase comes at a time when the statewide average dropped by 0.1 to 20.7.