- Bleeding Heart Bakery, everyone's favorite punk rock pasty location, is opening a new location in the suburbs. According to their facebook page, they will be opening a new location in Elmhurst by the end of the summer. The new location will be supplied by their new, huge home bakery in the city which will hopefully open in the next few weeks - the opening has been delayed several times already. In any case, suburbanites rejoice, as you won't have to drive all the way into the city to taste their baked goodies. more ›

Say hello to Sergiu Muresan, readers. If this resident of the West side did indeed throw a puppy into traffic, as he's been charged with by Elmhurst authorities, then he just earned a stocking full of coal and a Code Red beatdown with said stocking. more ›

Sandra Clanton, 39, of Elmhurst, attacked and then slashed her 9-month-old grandson with a kitchen knife last Saturday because she thought he was the "Antichrist," DuPage County prosecutors said on Friday. Clanton was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery of a child, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and ordered held on $2 million bail; she's also been held in a locked psychiatric facility since the stabbing. According to police, Clanton's grandson and daughter were staying in her home when she abruptly attacked the child, allegedly slamming the child's head into the edge of the kitchen sink before slashing his face. Clanton's daughter rescued the baby and called police. Officials said that the baby suffered no life-threatening injuries. more ›

Elmhurst police are looking for a man who exposed himself to some children at a wedding reception over the weekend. The man approached two children, asked them if they wanted candy, and then dropped his pants before fleeing the scene in a blue minivan. Police say no physical contact took place between the man and the children and describe him describe the suspect as "a clean-shaven man in his late-20s to early-30s, about 5-feet-10 and 160 to 180 pounds with dark hair spiked down the middle" and was wearing a pink traditional East Indian "Kurtha" shirt. more ›

Though the definition of the term “disorderly conduct” can be nebulous, the charge is usually reserved for people misusing fireworks, crowbar-wielding motorists, property damage and threatening children. Officials in suburban Elmhurst however, might like the charge to stick to miscreants who show their sarcastic displeasure with a roll of their eyes. more ›

It sounds like something that just barely squeaks past your work's Websense filter, but Online MBA has kindly assembled The Stats on Internet Pornography, and it includes a little tidbit of info that proves for once and for all that the residents of one of the western suburbs are indeed some of the horniest, porn-iest people in the world. No, that's not hyperbole. more ›

Strange story out of Elmhurst where a 66-year-old ice cream man has been charged with disorderly conduct for a disturbing incident this weekend. He had sold ice cream to a group of teens Saturday and bumped into them later that day when he allegedly asked two of the teens to kiss for free ice cream. Things went downhill from there, according to WBBM 780. more ›

It's not just "Cool Moms" in Lake Forest that are facing the music these days. Elmhurst is getting in on the action now, too. A big New Year's Eve bash attended by many students from York High will result in punishment for 43 student athletes who attended the party. Principal Diana Smith said, "Students received consequences for being at the party that included suspension from participation for a portion of their season and 20 hours of community service." All of the students who attended the party were allegedly freshmen and sophomore and fully cooperated with school officials. more ›

"[The attacker] said, 'Now who is going to protect you?' " the victim's father said. " 'And she said that, 'God will protect me ... You can kill me, but you cannot take my soul.' She fought for her life, and that's how God saved her."

Over 230,000 ComEd customers are still without power following last night's powerful storms that swept through the area, downing trees and power lines. The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation had reports of 1,438 damaged trees, 158 malfunctioning traffic signals, 69 damaged street light poles, 112 downed wires, and 212 city blocks without working street lights. The first line of storms pushed through the city shortly after 8 p.m. and were followed by a second, slightly weaker round shortly after 11 p.m. Tornadoes were reported in Schiller Park and in Elmhurst but there were no reports within the Chicago city limits. more ›

A wee exaggeration on our part: the two stores scheduled for shuttering are not literally across the street from other stores (the Country Club Hills store is four miles from the nearest one and the other in Elmhurst is a few blocks). The Trib offers a deeper meaning: "To people who live in more fashionable ZIP codes, the loss of a Starbucks might not be viewed as a wound to civic pride. But in Country Club Hills, the opening of the ubiquitous chain in May 2007 signified a certain cachet." Cachet or no, a few moments with our bff Google confirms that there are places in the area other than Starbucks where one can get a cup of Good Morming America. more ›