February 2009 – Week 2

Spring Brook Elementary School administrators and staff planned to devote much of their time Monday to helping the school community absorb the news that one of their own is gone. Second-grade teacher Shaun Wild, 24, died early Saturday after he was stabbed during an argument at Frankie’s Blue Room in downtown Naperville. The North Central College graduate, w […]

ALGONQUIN — When Army Pfc. Matthew Thomas Crawford, 24, agreed on Saturday afternoon to drive his sister, Amanda Crawford, and her 3-week-old son, Cayden, from Genoa to a family party, he never expected Warriors’ Watch Riders to meet them at Starks Corner gas station at Routes 47 and 72 and then escort them to Riverview Restaurant & Tavern in Algonquin. […]

DuPage Circuit Court Judge Neal Cerne set a $3 million bond Sunday for the alleged murderer of Spring Brook Elementary School teacher Shaun Wild. Daniel J. Olaska, 27, of Naperville, listened on a closed circuit television connection as his attorney, Earl Grinbarg, argued unsuccessfully for a lower bond. The fatal stabbing of Wild happened during an altercat […]

I don’t have many political heroes and often lament that our Springfieldians don’t provide me with nearly enough opportunities to accentuate the positive. The only politician I’ve praised lately is Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon, and I’ve been trying to tell him to get the hell out of it before even he turns to the dark side. But there is one name […]