he DuPage County Clerk’s Office was a no-show for a scheduled budget presentation at the county board’s finance committee meeting Tuesday — one day after a judge ruled the clerk must follow the county’s accounting procedures.

DuPage County will spend up to $147,000 to have a pair of lobbying firms represent their interests in Springfield for another year.

DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek can decide how her office spends money, but when it comes to getting the bills paid, the clerk’s office must follow county procedures, a judge ruled Monday.

DuPage Animal Services recently received a $1 million gift as the shelter is overflowing with cats

DuPage County Animal Services at Tuesday’s County Board meeting accepted a $1 million donation from DuPage Animal Friends, the nonprofit organization that supports the county’s animal shelter.

The DuPage County Board on Tuesday unanimously approved Chairwoman Deborah Conroy’s appointment of Melissa Martinez of West Chicago to fill an upcoming vacancy on the county board.

Current Wheaton City Council member and Democrat Erica Bray-Parker has launched a campaign to succeed retiring Republican Amy Grant in an Illinois House seat.

New policies, individualized treatment plans, and added mental health staff are among some of the changes at the DuPage County jail since a 50-year-old woman was found unresponsive in her cell in 2023.

The Illinois attorney general’s office has been assigned as a special prosecutor to investigate bidding practices in the DuPage County clerk’s office.

A Winfield has been acquitted of charges alleging he threatened a Wheaton Warrenville District 200 school board candidate in 2023.

DuPage County officials have recognized nearly three dozen small nonprofit organizations with funding through a county grant program.

A Carol Stream business owner is urging DuPage County Board members to pay their bills.

DuPage County officials could revisit a discussion of whether to pursue home-rule powers in light of a controversial measure that emerged in Springfield to save public transit from a massive budget shortfall.

DuPage County will pay $11 million to the family of an Addison woman who died in the county jail to settle a lawsuit that claims she did receive adequate medical and mental health care.

Addison Township Supervisor Dennis Reboletti hopes to find them new home for the U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde sign that recently was removed from the courthouse in DuPage County

Some DuPage County officials would like an update at the DuPage Heritage Gallery, located in the county administration building in Wheaton

DuPage County Board members voted on Tuesday to strip late Congressman Henry Hyde’s name from the courthouse in Wheaton.

A resolution before the DuPage County Board on Tuesday would remove the name of the late Congressman Henry J. Hyde from the county’s Wheaton courthouse and rescind previous approval for a monument there in his honor.

DuPage County Board members have agreed to pay a lobbying firm up to $96,000 to represent county interests before Congress and federal executive branch agencies for another year.

DuPage County is offering a new round of grants to help small nonprofit organizations provide job readiness, food assistance and other programs.

DuPage County and the DuPage Foundation will direct nearly $400,000 to DuPagePads to help the Wheaton-based nonprofit shelter those experiencing homelessness through the winter.

DuPage County Board members have authorized the use of a part of the county fairgrounds in Wheaton for a new transportation facility, though the decision was not unanimous.

A DuPage County Board committee has given preliminary approval for a proposal to use land at the fairgrounds property in Wheaton for a sprawling new highway maintenance facility.

DuPage Forest Preserve District finalized the $12 million purchase of Bolger Farm

DuPage County Board members this week signaled support for using fairground property for a new multimillion-dollar transportation complex.

DuPage County Board members Tuesday approved a $636.6 million budget that includes money to address food insecurity, mental health and substance abuse care, as well as hire more prosecutors and public defenders.

A reimagined DuPage County Fairgrounds could be home to a performing arts center featuring a large outdoor concert venue and buildings for music, dance and digital media programs.

DuPage County is eyeing the possibility of putting a multimillion-dollar transportation complex on the county fairgrounds property in Wheaton.

Most DuPage County Board incumbents had a good night on Tuesday.

Now that the polls have closed, Suburban Life is keeping an eye on several races and referendum questions throughout DuPage County

DuPage County voters are choosing between two lawyers to serve as the county’s circuit court clerk.

Incumbent William “Bill” White, a Downers Grove Democrat, faces Bob Grogan, a Downers Grove Republican, for the DuPage County auditor’s post.

A longtime DuPage Democrat who has previously called for letting voters decide the future of the county’s recorder of deeds office is now hoping to lead it.

Some DuPage County Board members are questioning the number of lawyers representing the county clerk in a legal case stemming from an ongoing dispute over how bills get paid.

DuPage County Board members could soon look for ways to spend $100,000 each to benefit county residents.

DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek is suing the DuPage County Board, Auditor Bill White and county board Chair Deborah Conroy in a move to assert her right to control how she runs the clerk’s office.

For more than 16 months, the DuPage County Board and County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek have been at odds over how bills get paid and what she can or can’t do with her office’s budget.

A past due credit card bill is now part of the ongoing controversy surrounding the DuPage County clerk’s office and unpaid bills.

DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy is proposing a 2025 budget includes money to help address food insecurity and affordable housing, hire more prosecutors and public defenders among other items

DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek wants to be represented by a private attorney in a lawsuit the county has filed against her because of a dispute about bills.

The DuPage County clerk has been sued in a dispute over how her bills are paid

Beekeepers in unincorporated DuPage County no longer need an acre of land to house their bee colonies.

Invoices from the DuPage County clerk’s office are once again being held up for payment — a move the county clerk said has cost the county roughly $25,000.

Bartlett police arrested an Elgin man Tuesday in connection with a shooting that caused damage to a home in early May.

The saga between the DuPage County clerk’s office and the county board made its way into an annual outside audit of the county’s finances.

Before DuPage County Board members loosen beekeeping restrictions, some groups want them to consider the sting those changes may have on native bees.

DuPage County has kicked off projects totaling more than $36 million to ease traffic congestion, improve safety and resurface more than 57 lane miles of county roads.

An audit exposed shortcomings that led to a snafu in the DuPage County cannabis tax

DuPage County forest preserve commissioners are weighing whether to ask voters in November for a possible property tax increase to generate more than $17 million in additional annual revenue for the district.

DuPage County has increased its rating in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Community Rating System program