A woman has been reunited with the remains of her 15-year-old son thanks to a public plea for help after her car was stolen in the city’s West Side earlier this week with her son’s ashes inside.

As a rare trial in “Broadview Six” case looms, Oak Park trustee Brian Straw is sharing his story as one of the four remaining defendants in the politically charged prosecution.

Amid an increasingly hostile environment for the LGTBQ+ community under the second Trump administration, people are flocking to a central Illinois community for a reprieve.

People gathered outside the Jesse Brown Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Chicago to mourn Alex Pretti’s death.

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

Andrew Freer is part of a small band of filmmakers from across the Chicago area on a mission to protect constitutional rights through on the ground, documentary-style videos.

The deployment of smoke canisters — some witnesses described it as tear gas — came as tensions boiled over on the city’s Northwest Side Friday afternoon.

Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

Michael Benjamin was gravely burned in a fire on Sept. 8, 2021 at his then-Evanston home.

Pedro Toledo Catalan, known as Pepe, was shot and killed early Sunday morning in Pilsen, leaving his neighbors to hold nightly vigils for him.

An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.

The sounds of one of Chicago’s largest protests in recent memory reverberated throughout downtown Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered in a united admonishment of President Trump.

Naperville is now the third-largest city in Illinois, according to new estimates from the U.S. census. The city added 1,958 residents between mid-2023 and mid-2024, bringing its total population to…

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church closed years ago.

A program that allows Chicago-area libraries to share books is in jeopardy after President Donald Trump gutted the federal agency that helped fund it.

After 32 seasons as an NBA referee, Danny Crawford — a longtime Naperville resident — is headed to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

It’s been a year since a quiet neighborhood in Rockford was ravaged in a knife, softball bat and truck attack that killed four and left seven wounded.

Naperville City Council candidate Nag Jaiswal claimed on Facebook last week that he’d been endorsed by U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Danny Davis, but that was not true.

The Tennis Bums have been a local staple for more than two decades. A community tennis group with a 4.0 rating by U.S. Tennis Association standards, it boasts members from Naperville and surroundin…

As Naperville considers the future of its electric grid, an array of energy procurement options was presented to a special meeting of the city’s Public Utilities Advisory Board Thursday night.

The DuPage County courthouse will no longer bear the name of the late U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde. The DuPage County Board voted 10-5 at its Tuesday meeting to remove the Republican congressman’s name fro…

Evanston and Oak Park have approved ranked choice voting, but the Cook County Clerk is waiting to act. DuPage and Will Counties may enact it first.

Since 2019, North Central has appeared in the NCAA Division III football championships five times. The Stagg Bowl has taken Naperville Cardinals from Ohio to Maryland to Virginia and, most recently…

As we anticipate the new year, here are the Naperville stories that encapsulate 2024 as decided by the Naperville Sun.

For the second year in a row, Amy and Brian Scott have decked their Naperville home near Atlas Lane and Tupelo Avenue in a Taylor Swift-inspired Christmas lights display.

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