First-time visitor to Naperville charmed by a city that looks like a movie set and can’t get enough of deep-dish pizza but grossed out by cicada infestation.
Category: Naperville Sun Opinion
Letters to the Editor: City must resist pressure to extend coal-powered electricity deal; Ellis Island model is the one to follow for new U.S. immigrants
Letters to the editor submitted to the Naperville Sun.
Vickroy: Those books you truly love give you new insight into it — and yourself — every time you reread it
A good book like “The Alchemist” can have lifelong effects. It can reveal truths in you as it sends others on a journey, columnist Donna Vickroy says.
Decent: Traumatic brain injuries a very real thing in the military, says Naperville woman whose Navy Seal husband took his own life
Naperville woman becomes an advocate for helping those in the military who suffer traumatic brain injuries after her husband, a Navy officer, commits suicide after four tours of duty.
Letters to the Editor: New law’s a mistake that wrongly limits voters’ election choices
Letters submitted to the Naperville Sun for publication.
Letters to the Editor: Time for city to sell its 5th Avenue land and reap the tax benefits; something has to be done about the Topgolf gun problem
Letters to the editor submitted to the Naperville Sun for publication.
Decent: Special act of kindness done by a Naperville police officer deserves a special kind of recognition
If you watch TV shows like “Chicago P.D.” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” you might think the average day in the life of a cop involves high-speed car chases, dramatic confrontations, and life or death decisions.
While things like this do happen in Naperville, and our police are certainly as brave as any you might see on television, these are not daily occurrences.
In our town, first responders are more likely to spend part of their day doing wellness checks, which is not to say that’s not just as important as chasing bad guys.
David McGrath: My mother’s love taught me why participation trophies matter
My mother’s praise in the face of my losing efforts made me feel better as a child. So participation trophy critics should take a breath.
Letters to the Editor: Egypt and Jordan need to do the right thing by helping the Palestinians
Letters to the editor submitted to the Naperville Sun.
Decent: Body transformation achieved in six months leads to two bodybuilding titles for Naperville man
It’s the stuff movies are made of. Dad devotes six months of his life to changing his lifestyle and goes on to win the first bodybuilding competition he enters.
Fitness instructor Reo Ross has done just that, setting quite an example for the clients and members he sees at the Lifetime Fitness in Burr Ridge.