The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Division of Traffic Safety released data showing a lower number of alcohol-involved, motor vehicle fatalities in Illinois. The reduction in alcohol-involved fatalities has occurred steadily since 2002 with the largest decline occurring between 2007 and 2008.

Biggert is hosting a series of Traveling Office Hours throughout the 13th Congressional District to listen to the ideas and concerns of area residents, answer questions, and provide assistance to those seeking help with a federal agency. Media are invited to attend and should contact Abby Milone at (630) 655-2052.

Twenty years after an F5 tornado tore through Will and Kendall County, Plainfield residents gathered along the banks of the DuPage River to mark the day and remember those who lost their lives.

Shorewood Mayor Rick Chapman accepted an award from DePaul University for the village’s community planning and development work.

The nation’s three largest African American fraternities are asking their brothers to lead the movement to put boys on the path to success.

“You are each a unique creation,” Judge Raymond Bolden told a group of participants in the National Hook-Up of Black Women’s Passport and Jr. Hook-Up Program, “There will never be anyone just like you.”