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I got yet another message this morning from a correspondent whose e-mail account had been hacked and hijacked. This is the fourth time in about a month that this has occurred among my contacts. This seems to be a growing concern and I’m wondering why now, after years of e-mailing, these accounts are being picked [...]

Local architect Mike Davenport is running the Boston Marathon Monday — and also racing for a cause. Davenport, who also serves on the village’s Architectural Design Review Board and Comprehensive Plan Ad Hoc Committee, aims to finish the marathon in less than three hours in his second attempt.  He also wants to do good, by [...]

That’s ONE MILLION hits, as of about 2 p.m. today. But dang, the counter jumped from 999,998 to 1,000,001 while I was refreshing so I missed a screen shot of the Big Number. And, yes, we have a winner, who will be announced on Monday.

There’s a new blog in town called The Ups in Downers Grove, which is edited by regular DGreport commenter Ryan DeProsperis. “I find this to be my break from things,” said DeProsperis, who is a finance guy by day.  “I enjoy politics, in a smaller municipal fashion, on the side.  It’s my work away from [...]

As the wife of, daughter of, niece of and cousin of men who served in the military, I appreciate having a day set aside each year to recognize their service and the even greater sacrifices made by so many others. In six years of writing my Sun column, I’ve taken the opportunity to highlight the [...]

When Queen Elizabeth sends an aristocratic emissary into the North High band room on a Wednesday afternoon, even teenagers will take notice. Lord Roger Bramble, the deputy lieutenant of London, surprised marching band members today with an invitation from the queen to perform at the 2011 New Year’s Day Parade in London. He was accompanied [...]

Editor’s note: I’ve added the list of participating restaurants below. Sorry for the omission. My goal is to skip cooking tomorrow night and instead attend the Second Annual Taste of Downers Grove event tomorrow night, which friends raved about last year. It’s scheduled for 4 to 8 p.m. at the corner of I-355 and Butterfield [...]

I’m going to open this thread for anyone who wishes to comment, as I see Chad has already done on a previous thread. My kids have grown up in the frightening new world that was ushered in on Sept. 11, 2001. I was serving my kindergartner breakfast when my brother phoned and told me there [...]

Downers Grove was named the nation’s fifth best place for a healthy retirement by CNNMoney.com and the editors of Money magazine. The village is one of 20 towns where “residents live a long life, there are lots of doctors and hospitals nearby, and you can pursue an active lifestyle,” according to Money. The article opens [...]

When their son Noah was diagnosed with Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis  in March, the VanHoutan family of Downers Grove finally had an answer to the health problems that had been plaguing their once healthy, happy little boy. An extremely rare disease of the central nervous system with only a couple hundred cases world-wide, LINCL  [...]