Hal Phipps News Today

A Kane County judge could make a key ruling this week in the lawsuit filed by the man whose dog was fatally shot in 2021 by the husband of Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps. Joe Petit is suing Hal...

Nearly two years after his beloved dog was shot to death by a neighbor, Joe Petit of Wayne still seeks justice for Ludwig. This time, he has turned to civil court, in a lawsuit alleging Hal Phipps violated the states Humane Care for Animals Act.

In early returns, Eileen Phipps leads in her bid to be re-elected president of Wayne

Were it not for a dog named Ludwig, Eileen Phipps might be cruising unopposed to a seventh term as village president of Wayne. But her husbands killing of a neighbors pet triggered a contentious race for Phipps office and three trustee seats.

Hal Phipps, age 89 of Peach Bottom, passed away on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at Hospice and Community Care. He was the husband of Shirley A. Halsey Phipps. He was

Kane County States Attorney Jamie Mosser will not take the case of the fatal shooting of Ludwig the dog in Wayne to a grand jury after all.

There will be contested races for mayor or village president in at least six towns in DuPage and Kane counties during the April election.

A Kane County grand jury will consider whether criminal charges should be brought against the husband of the Wayne village president, who shot a dog last summer.

The local headlines were dominated in 2021 by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the sale of a suburban jewel -- Arlington Park -- as a potential new home of the Chicago Bears. But that was far from all that happened during another eventful year.

A Schaumburg man is charged with threatening Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps over her husbands deadly shooting of his next-door neighbors dog, Ludwig.