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DuPage County officials sharpened their focus on a proposed $69.9 million infrastructure bond issue in a meeting Tuesday night, concentrating on ways to squeeze the most mileage out of the potential new low-interest debt, part of the federal Recovery Zone program.

Naperville's longest-serving mayor hasn't decided yet, but he has made hints that it might be time to turn in his gavel.

A dorm building at Wheaton College was put on lockdown Tuesday after bullets were found outside the building.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Aug. 28, 1990. A day that haunts me every time I hear that there is a thunderstorm watch or see a tornado on TV. I was 11 years old.

A 20-year-old Naperville man has been arrested on felony charges of possession of child pornography, nearly three months to the day after his father was arrested on identical charges.

Drew Peterson's attorneys tried Monday to get the judge presiding over the gun case against their client to drop the charge on the grounds that Peterson was allowed to carry an illegally modified rifle because he was a Bolingbrook police sergeant.

Indian Prairie School District 204 and First Student bus company have been busy planning and working to ensure the rocky start to last year -- overcrowded buses, missed stops and confusion over route changes -- remain a thing of the past. While some buses traveled their routes throughout the past few weeks, on Monday all buses for District 204 went through the schedule of a regular school day.

Two bus drivers for Indian Prairie District 204 have been recognized by the National Safety Council, the nation's premier authority on safety and injury prevention.

Two friends who apparently never noticed the Naperville police squad car traveling just behind them have been arrested for allegedly street racing at a speed of 106 mph on Route 59, or 61 mph over the posted limit.

Four people were hospitalized after a two-car crash at Route 30 and Douglas Road on Monday afternoon.

A Downers Grove woman has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the Downers Grove Panthers youth football organization. The Downers Grove Police Department said that the woman arrested, Theresa A. Carlquist, 51, 6700 Plymouth Road, was a former treasurer with the Panthers.

DuPage County will follow up the debut of next year's spending plan with a series of public hearings designed to share information and gather community on the fiscal 2011 budget.

Spirit soared during a Monday morning pep assembly. Only those gathered were not students but those who teach them. The approximately 2,000 staff members who make up Naperville School District 203 gathered Monday at Calvary Church for a back to school address by Superintendent Mark Mitrovich.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Pam Leddy took a late lunch the day the tornado struck down her office. On the drive back, Leddy heard on the radio that a tornado had hit Rockford. So when the skies turned dark over Plainfield School District's administration building, she took it serious.

Lana Kelly is a Naperville entrepreneur who knows the value of having a support system behind her.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary series: While the Aug. 28, 1990, tornado is most known for wreaking havoc on Plainfield, Joliet and Crest Hill, the storm started its path of destruction in Will County in the northwest corner of the county in Wheatland Township.

1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Peni Heffernan remembers Aug. 28, 1990, was an institute day at St. Mary Immaculate School in Plainfield. She'd been talking with the principal, Sister Mary Keenan, about the upcoming year when she looked out the window around 3:30 p.m. and saw the sky darkening in the northwest.

It's hard to have a nice dinner with someone and not leave the table as friends. That's what members of the Islamic Center of Naperville were hoping for when they extended an invitation to the non-Muslim community to join them for a Ramadan open house Thursday night. About 160 people showed up including members of local Christian and Jewish faith communities, educators, community and elected officials and interested residents.

A total of 11 people were injured -- two critically -- in a three-vehicle rollover traffic collision on I-88 near Lisle Saturday afternoon in which a 28-year-old Geneva man was cited for number of alleged traffic violations.

The tornado that ripped through Will County in 1990 was one of the worst storms to hit Illinois. The twister's wake left 29 people dead and more than 300 injured.  All this week, we'll look back at this devastating event.