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The Village of Downers Grove is reporting on its website that Laborers’ District Council of Chicago, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers and a consortium of local contractors have reached a tentative agreement. Local 150 workers went on strike July 1, days before the scheduled closure of the Belmont crossing. That project [...]

The village has been working non-stop with Com Ed to address the remaining residences without power and hopes to see them restored later today. Bryan Place residents can look to regain power later today, once Com Ed has finished installing a new transformer, said Communications Director Doug Kozlowski, who with Village Manager Dave Fieldman, has [...]

Friday’s one-two punch left considerable damage and widespread power outages. These photos were taken in the immediate aftermath of the afternoon wave of high winds and heavy rain. In my neighborhood, the area north of Prairie and west of Main seemed hardest hit, with many big limbs down. The village public works department was out [...]

The recent rain, heat and humidity have generated a bumper crop of weeds, as is particularly evident on certain unoccupied properties around town. Pictured at right (click to enlarge) is a commercial property on Ogden Avenue at Prince Street, where the weeds have grown tall enough to obscure the fire hydrant. Another formerly shaggy downtown [...]

The Downers Grove Rotary Club’s  GroveFest proposal was approved by the village council Tuesday night, ensuring a privately operated alternative to Heritage Fest, which the council suspended last year citing budget issues. The club, which has hosted annual Oktoberfest celebrations and also operated the Heritage Fest Beer Garden for the past five  years, is confident [...]

Updated: 9 a.m. April 9 with bank account information. Aid efforts are underway for displaced residents Fire Chief Jim Jackson told a breath-taking story of courage and cooperation as he recounted for the village council April 6 the department’s mammoth effort against the three-alarm fire that devastated a west-side apartment building in the early morning [...]

And this one counts! The village is asking residents to complete a 16-question Garbage Service Survey online, or to stop by Village Hall, 801 Burlington Ave., Public Works, 5101 Walnut Ave. or the library, 1050 Curtiss St., for a paper copy. The village says the survey takes about seven minutes, but most will probably be [...]

In preparation for the six to 10 inches of snow expected to fall between tonight and Wednesday morning, the village public works department applied anti-icing treatments to Main Street and Fairview Avenue earlier today. Liquid freeze-point depressant chemicals were applied to the road surfaces to help prevent the snow or ice from bonding to the [...]

Public Works Director Nan Newlon gave a timely report on the village’s snow removal effort at Tuesday’s village council workshop meeting. Residents can expect the same level of service as in previous years, Newlon said, with public works crews attacking the 170 miles of village streets on a triage basis. Priority One streets, those with [...]

Village Hall deserves credit for making this year’s budget process a little less painful — at least for residents seeking information about village operations and the various cost-savings proposals. Members of the budget team, which includes personnel from the village manager’s office and finance office, have been posting a series of “budget responses’ on the [...]