The holidays are a time for friends, family and coworkers to come together in celebration.

During the 2018 MDA Fill the Boot campaign, members of the Wheaton Fire Department took to the streets to help kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related life-threatening diseases.

The City of West Chicago is introducing a new program to build civic engagement with West Chicago’s young Latino residents.

All City Administrative Offices will be closed on Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25.

City Offices will be closed for the holidays at noon on Monday, December 24 and all day on Tuesday, December 25 and Tuesday, January 1.

The new budget proposed by the City of Elmhurst calls for $168,215,835 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 0.9 percent less than what this year’s estimated budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Woodbridge calls for $47,286,194 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 9.4 percent less than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by City of West Chicago calls for $47,565,600 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 2.94 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Oak Brook calls for $67,215,040 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 19.5 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by City of Naperville calls for $452.2 million in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 2.2 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Glen Ellyn calls for $76,515,223 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 1.1 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

At 8:19 p.m. on Monday, December 10, 2018, Naperville’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) received a 911 call for the report of smoke in a two-story multi-family residence located in the 1100 block of Tennyson Lane.

The new budget proposed by Village of Downers Grove calls for $48.2 million in general fund expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 1.8 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Roselle calls for $45,349,065 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 1.7 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Lombard calls for $83,911,310 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 13.4 percent less than what this year’s estimated budget provides.

The new budget proposed by Village of Bensenville calls for $53,958,811 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 6.7 percent less than what this year’s budget provides.

The new budget proposed by the Village of Clarendon Hills calls for $19,040,000 in expenditures in fiscal year 2019, which is 3.9 percent more than what this year’s budget provides.

Residents of the Wheaton-Warrenville District 200 are urging taxpayers to attend school board meetings to voice their opinions on a new school scheduled to be built that could raise taxes in the future.

The debate over prayer continuing to be an opening part of county board meetings recently intensified when members of the DuPage County Board took to the floor to voice their widely different views on the subject.

In a list of the 30 most populous counties in Illinois, DuPage County ranked No. 13 for the rate of abortions performed there in 2017, according to an Illinois Department of Public Health report issued in December, which tracks abortions performed on an annual basis.