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Students check their diplomas after sitting back down in their seats.

Seniors bid farewell to Lyons Township High School

May 23, 2019 at 11:02 a.m.

About 960 seniors graduated from Lyons Township High School Sunday, and took with them a message to venture outside their comfort zones. The nearly hour-long commencement ceremony at the north...

Shout Out: Brooke Gawel, winner of a Chick Evans Scholarship for caddying

May 23, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

Brooke Gawel, a senior at Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park, is the recipient of a Chick Evans Scholarship, a full tuition and housing college scholarship for golf caddies. Recipients...

A Just Escape Room is slated to open in June in La Grange.

Escape room facility to open in La Grange

May 22, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

If the thought of being locked in a room with only 60 minutes to escape makes your pulse pound, then La Grange will be the place you want to be...

Western Springs police are investigating a car theft and car burglaries.

Western Springs police investigate car theft and burglaries

May 23, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

Western Springs police are investigating five motor vehicle burglaries, one theft of a motor vehicle and one recovered vehicle that was previously stolen in Chicago. The incidents all occurred between...

Hinsdale deputy police chief Kevin Simpson at a reception in Memorial Hall before he was sworn is as the new police chief in March 2016.

Hinsdale police chief to step down

May 8, 2019 at 3:47 p.m.

A decision by Kevin Simpson, who has been chief of police in Hinsdale for just a year and two months, shocked village officials. "It came to me as a surprise,"...

Shout Out: Laurie Lawlor, author of 38 books

May 23, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

Laurie Lawlor is a alumna of Lyons Township High School. She is an author of 38 books, both fiction and nonfiction. She also teaches writing for young adults at Columbia...

Adults share memories growing up in Illinois Masonic Children’s Home

May 23, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

For Harry Bohn, the Illinois Masonic Children's Home in La Grange was the only childhood home he ever knew. "I have no memory except of living there," said Bohn, 72,...

Michele Grubish, race director, makes an announcement.

Runners raise money for La Grange District 102 PTOs

May 22, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

A smattering of rain and brisk weather didn't keep runners from taking to the streets in La Grange Park to raise money for the Parent-Teacher Organizations of the schools in...

A little brown bat in La Crosse Wis., in 2010.

Cook County’s first rabid bat of the year found in La Grange Park

May 23, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

A bat found in La Grange Park has tested positive for rabies, the first case of a rabid bat reported in Cook County in 2017. La Grange Park Police report...

La Grange District 102 hires new finance superintendent

May 22, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

La Grange Elementary School District 102 has hired a new assistant superintendent for business operations. Diana McCluskey will begin work July 1, following the retirement of Lauri Kearney. McCluskey will...

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