Wayne

Candidate hopefuls of both parties lined up early Monday morning at the Kane County Clerk’s Office to file their nominating petitions for the March 19, 2024 primary and the Nov. 5, 2024 general election.

Joe Petit, the owner of Ludwig, the dog that was shot by his neighbor in 2021, filed a lawsuit against the neighbor seeking more than $450,000 in damages plus attorney’s fees.

Joe Petit, whose dog Ludwig was shot to death by a neighbor, held a Justice for Ludwig protest outside the Little Home Church by the Wayside in Wayne on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Inside the church a town hall meeting took place to discuss an architectural review of the village hall and police department.

The table was piled high with food – cans of black beans, a gallon of milk, a bag of rice, a carton of eggs, a fresh cantaloupe, a bag of pancake mix.

Since May 2021, Project DASH – of DoorDash – made 40,000 free deliveries of food throughout the region to Northern Illinois Food Bank clients.

The new chairman of the Kane County Republican Party is Kenneth Shepro of Wayne, former attorney for the Kane County Board and an unsuccessful candidate in the GOP primary in 2016 for county board chairman

A St. Charles filmmaker, however, is reviving the tales with his movie, “Munger Road.”