Winfield Good Old Days festival begins tomorrow, Thursday, September 8th at 5PM. The family-friendly festival is one of my personal favorites of the DuPage County summer festival season, featuring a carnival, food, fun, and live entertainment.
Get your rod & reels ready! The Fall trout season starts October 15th at Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville.
The Western DuPage Special Recreation Association will host its 17th annual charity dinner and auction “An Affair to Remember”.
If you’ve never had the opportunity to visit Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve in Darien, you should. The enormous preserve completely surrounds Argon National Laboratory and features a 10-mile loop trail that is perfect for runners, bicyclists, and nature-lovers alike. Read more about Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. The photos below were taken in early summer at…
Mallard Lake, a 942-acre forest preserve in DuPage County has open waters, wetlands, fields and scattered woodlands with wildlife such as beavers, great blue herons, bullfrogs, eastern meadowlarks, bobolinks, red-tailed hawks and kestrels.
Heroin use in DuPage and other nearby counties has increased at an explosive pace in the past five years. The (Tribune) chart to the left indicates an alarming growth trend; heroin is increasingly more available in the Chicago area. Because it is cheap and readily available, teen heroin use is also on the rise. Here…
Naperville On the Hunt job candidates check in During the past year, I’ve spoken with dozens of Naperville-based job seekers for my weekly “On the Hunt” column. Some were approaching their 24th month of looking for full-time employment while others had just been laid off eight weeks before our conversation. Regardless of his or her…
The 3rd annual Taste of Downers Grove is being held Thursday, September 16th from 4PM-8PM.
Here is a directory of great places to host your child’s next birthday party. Birthday party ideas in DuPage County, IL.
Below is a list of standard sales and use tax rates for DuPage County. This list does not include all of the DuPage County taxes we pay (such as real estate taxes), but gives you an idea of how much you tax you pay when you make regular purchases in DuPage.
