Metra Train Hits Car; Union Pacific-West Line Shut Down
The Metra Union Pacific West Line was shut down for some time Thursday morning, after a train hit an empty car in West Chicago.
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The Metra Union Pacific West Line was shut down for some time Thursday morning, after a train hit an empty car in West Chicago.
After 81 years in business, Avenue Motor Sales in Batavia will close its doors for the last time on Friday.
Two businesses in Batavia have been found selling synthetic marijuana — prompting police and aldermen in the western suburb to support a ban on the sale or delivery, possession or use of the substance.
A west suburban man faces 14 counts of child pornography after police seized hundreds of DVDs and CDs at his Batavia home.
One man is dead and three other people were hospitalized Saturday afternoon following a head-on crash involving four vehicles in west suburban Batavia, according to officials.
A Batavia woman who prompted a frantic search when it was believed she fell into the water and went missing was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct because she was "hiding'' while multiple fire and police emergency crews were looking for her Saturday night on the North Side, police said.
As the city and suburbs deal with budget troubles, more of them are scrapping planned fireworks shows for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. But in Batavia, the show will go on.
As one west suburban family prepared to bury their teen daughter killed in a Kane County crash, the survivor's family cautiously celebrated some positive signs Thursday.
A 31-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly stole a running BMW and a vacuum cleaner but forgot to fill up the gas tank.
There are warnings that the United States might fall farther behind other countries in innovative technologies, if proposed federal budget cuts hit Argonne and Fermilab.
Aldermen in west suburban Batavia will reopen discussion on whether raising backyard chickens for fresh eggs should be a permitted use within the town's limits.
The Tevatron -- the premier particle accelerator in the world for more than two decades -- will be shut down in September at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
