Watts’ way

Years before anyone started talking very seriously about riverwalks and the like, May Theilgaard Watts had an idea. “We are human beings. We are able to walk upright on two feet. We need a footpath,” the Naperville naturalist wrote in a 1963 letter to the …Read More

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  ELGIN — Bob Beeter, a former deputy Elgin police chief who took early retirement in 2012 amid a scandal involving claims of adultery and email hacking, was indicted Tuesday on 20 felony counts by a Kane County grand jury. The state’s attorney’s office announced that …Read More

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