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Indications are the development of the Hidden Oaks Conservation Area in Bolingbrook will be as much as $159,000 under budget. Officials will now weigh the benefits of adding changes back into the project compared to the desirability of saving the money.

For almost 40 years, people have come from the western suburbs and beyond to view The Perry Mastodon on the campus of Wheaton College. The restored skeleton of a male mastodon was unearthed in 1963. Now, it's the mastodon's turn to travel.

The ABCs of window performance
London Free Press
Rob Parker, a Registered Home Inspector with the Ontario Association of Home Inspectors and Certified Home Inspector with the American Society of Home ...

Plain Dealer (blog)
Court case against man accused of killing Kent State student goes to jury
Plain Dealer (blog)
"Before you buy a house, it's usually a good idea to get a home inspector," he said. "But say the home inspector arrives and stumbles up to the house, ...
Murder suspect awaits verdictAkron Beacon Journal

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CEO Of Contracting Company Improves The Look Of Stanford Who's Who
24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
Babco Contractors of Maryland is a licensed home improvement contractor and a NAHI certified home inspector. They offer construction management, ...

Murder suspect awaits verdict
Akron Beacon Journal
In buying a house, he said, would it be wise to rely upon a home inspector who ''came stumbling on the scene with alcohol on his breath? ...

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Hoping to change state law to allow the school district to legally withhold income tax payments from Springfield, Indian Prairie District 204 will consider a resolution urging lawmakers to approve a "deadbeat amendment."

The former director of senior services with Naperville Township has lost her job, and the replacement is part-time, all in the name of cost cutting. But newly elected Supervisor Gary Vician insists services won't be compromised.

A Naperville man arrested for speeding twice in one morning — including 101 mph in a 45-mph zone — will be $850 poorer but back on the road after a judge's decision in Wheaton Traffic Court Wednesday.

Liam Kirstein is a big baseball fan -- especially when it involves Paul Konerko and the rest of the South Siders. But ask him what he likes best about the team with which he's mostly actively involved, the Wheatland Ducks, and he'll say it's the friends. Liam, 12, is the traveling team's bat boy and its biggest booster. The Naperville sixth-grader is on the autism spectrum, but neither he nor his team let that hold him back.

When the corn gets as high as an elephant's eye, the dew points are climbing, too. And that might be a contributing factor to relatively cooler but muggier late summer days here in the Midwest. That's the theory posited by Northern Illinois University climatologist David Changnon, who has been at the school in DeKalb for 18 years. "What we're learning is subtle land use changes may have greater impact than we've thought," he said.

Local celebrities added the sizzle to the menu Wednesday night at Tommy Nevin's of Naperville as they grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, brats and chicken to raise money for the Community Career Center in Naperville.

A mailbox and birdhouse were damaged between 10 p.m. May 18 and 5 a.m. May 19 in the 1700 block of Indian Trail Drive.

Neil and Marcia Schouten lost four trees to the emerald ash borer, which could be eating away at maybe hundreds more ash trees near their home and elsewhere in Will County. Thursday, the trees were being cut down, chipped and hauled away to prevent the beetle's spread.

An international manufacturing company is planning to move its North American headquarters to Plainfield in exchange for a tax break.

Will County officials are furious about a new state law that allows the dumping of construction debris in local quarries.

When walls start cracking
The Free Lance-Star
The home inspector they brought in before the sale pointed out the work that had been done. He said the method appeared somewhat unconventional to him, ...

How to hire a home inspector
CTV.ca
Bruce Hunter is a veteran home inspector often called in to find what other inspectors may have missed. He has some words of advice for anyone looking for a ...