Local News

GENEVA – The Kane County Board moved closer to signing off on plans to build a firearms training range at the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.

ST. CHARLES – A father of three girls, Tom Rydberg has been involved in the Campton United Soccer Club for six years.

FERMILAB – Fermilab scientists hope to learn more about the most abundant particles in the universe through a proposed project that would bring four new buildings to campus.

ST. CHARLES – A St. Charles-based company that specializes in finding temporary housing for displaced families is handling about 1,000 requests from those affected by the devastating tornado that touched down Monday in Oklahoma.

GENEVA – An early-morning garage fire in Geneva caused about $30,000 in damage to the structure Thursday, but there were no injuries, according to a news release issued by the Geneva Fire Department.

GENEVA – The heads of the various offices that make up Kane County’s courts and criminal justice system have signed off on a proposal to hire four information technology professionals, including a project manager, to oversee the work to upgrade the county’s courts-related computer systems.

CAMPTON HILLS – One person sustained nonlife-threatening injuries in a rollover crash at the intersection of Burlington Road and Bolcum Road in Campton Hills Thursday evening.

ST. CHARLES – The 11th annual Tyler Brett Caruso Memorial Concert is set from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at Lincoln Park, which is at Fourth Street and Main Street, St. Charles.

YORKVILLE – Raging Waves Waterpark has announced it will be closed this weekend because of forecasts for rain and unseasonably cold weather.

GENEVA – Bands are invited to submit a demo tape to the Sunset Community Center, 710 Western Ave., Geneva, to enter the Geneva Park District's annual Battle of the Bands concert. The demo tapes are due by Friday, May 24.

ST. CHARLES – The Red Gate Bridge pedestrian and bicycle crossing will be open to the public beginning Friday, the city of St. Charles announced this week.

GENEVA – Plans to install a new elevator at Kane County's historic courthouse will remain stalled on the ground floor after the Kane County Board agreed to rework the plans to include expensive revisions officials said are required by Geneva fire officials.

GENEVA – The Kane County Board moved closer to signing off on plans to build a firearms training range at the Kane County Sheriff's Office.

ST. CHARLES – The man claiming to be Jesus on Sunday morning in an incident at  Hotel Baker was cited even earlier that day with public drunkenness, after he and another man sought attention by pretending to fight, according to a St. Charles Police Department report.

GENEVA – An early-morning garage fire in Geneva caused about $30,000 in damage to the structure on Thursday, but there were no injuries, according to a news release issued by the Geneva Fire Department.