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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 [...]

A correspondent wrote to express frustration with local efforts to take the “Easter” out of such traditional seasonal vestiges as Easter egg hunts and the Easter Bunny. He/she pointed out that the Downers Grove Park District added a new program this year, inviting kids to spend Saturday morning, March 27, with the “Spring Bunny,” although [...]

The Village has put up a primer on coyote behavior that will be of interest to local pet-owners and walkers looking to avoid a confrontation with the wild critters, which in recent years have proliferated in the Western suburbs. The information was posted last week on the recommendation of the Environmental Concerns Commission, which reviewed [...]

Great showdown in the Olympic Men’s Figure Skating finals Feb. 18, with former Naperville resident Evan Lysacek winning the gold and a disgruntled Yevgeny Plushenko, the 2006 gold medalist who was looking for back-to-back titles, settling for silver. Good drama, with Lysacek skating first in his set and Plushenko wrapping up the competition. And following [...]

Maybe it was the weeks of cold, gray, rainy weather that preceded it. Maybe it was the rare Saturday occurence. Or maybe it was simply that my kids are so much older that my role is limited to passing out candy and ensuring that a few decorations go up every year. At any rate,  Halloween [...]

The Downers Grove Junior Woman’s Club has a couple of  events coming up in November that promise a certain symbiosis. First there is the club’s second annual Game and Trivia Night from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Loyal Order of Moose, 1030 Warren Ave.  Twenty-five tables of eight will compete to [...]

Updated, 3:15 p.m.: With additional events and links to activities. Several events are planned for the next week in downtown Downers Grove, home of that perfect Halloween backdrop, the Main Street Cemetary. Many of these events are old and dear favorites. I don’t think we missed a parade during our family’s little kid years . [...]

There’s still time to register for Saturday’s  5K/2.5K run/walk  sponsored by the Hillcrest Elementary School PTA. The professionally timed event will benefit a variety of enrichment and educational programs at the school.  Top performers will be awarded prizes. A free raffle will round out the morning. The 5K begins at 8 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17 [...]

A memorial fund has been established for Matthew Rheintgen, the teenager who lost his harrowing, 10-month battle with acute myelogenous leukemia in July. Matt’s dad Michael Rheintgen said the fund will be used to make life better for children and families battling leukemia. “I was at the hospital when the doctor and I had to [...]

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 [...]