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Jason Aldean performs at Country Thunder Wisconsin on July 22, 2023, in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.

Bob Chiarito: With his ‘Small Town’ song, Jason Aldean chooses to inflame Americans rather than unite them

July 25, 2023 at 12:38 p.m.

With images of people rioting, burning American flags and assaulting police officers, country star Jason Aldean has courted outrage with his new song and video "Try That in a Small...

Radio personality Lin Brehmer in the WXRT studios on March 16, 2012.

Bob Chiarito: Rock fans hope XRT’s Lin Brehmer’s Friday sign-off was not a goodbye

July 18, 2022 at 3:02 p.m.

Chicago radio icon Lin Brehmer closed his last show Friday afternoon in the most Brehmer-esque way, telling a story before spinning a song that emphasized his point even more. Before...

Norwood Park Fire Protection District Paramedic Phil Goldman holds newborn baby Greg, whom he helped deliver last week when mom Ilona Wadach went into labor and delivery very quickly.

After Norridge-area paramedics, police respond to emergency birth, new mom brings baby to greet them

November 8, 2021 at 10:46 p.m.

A grateful Ilona Wadach visited the Norwood Park Fire Protection District Saturday to thank paramedics and personnel who responded to her home to help deliver her baby when labor and...

Norwood Park Township is publicizing its first-ever website, which went live recently. It was the only township in Cook County that did not have a website.

Norwood Park Township website finally goes live, but doesn’t appear in search results yet

November 9, 2021 at 2:13 p.m.

With the launch of its first-ever website, Norwood Park Township is no longer the only township in Cook County without one. The website, which Township Supervisor Tom Lupo previously said...

Oak Park Library hires anti-racism director; supporters herald him as example of redemption after a criminal past

October 18, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

In choosing their first Director of Equity and Anti-Racism, Oak Park Library Board members selected a five-year employee community leaders praised as someone with deep community ties who has turned...

Oak Park and River Forest High School board members approved changes to the district's uniform grievance procedures, as well as approved a first reading of changes to its harassment policy June 13.

Oak Park and River Forest High School considers switch to single, rigorous curriculum for all freshmen; info session Oct. 26

October 18, 2021 at 10:14 a.m.

Parents and community members in Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 can get full information about a proposed change to the freshman curriculum at an online information...

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Police car, Franklin Park

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Man released from hospital 16 days after Franklin Park dog attack; dogs euthanized

October 5, 2021 at 5:44 p.m.

Sixteen days after being attacked by two dogs, who police said bit his face and ripped his leg flesh down to muscle and tendon, a 47-year-old man was released from...

Juliana Taimoorazy, who in 2007 started the Iraqi Christian Relief Council to spread awareness of the persecution of Christians around the world, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She spoke Sept. 29 to students at St. Paul of the Cross School in Park Ridge.

Nobel Prize nominee, of Skokie, who advocates for persecuted Christians in the Middle East, speaks to Park Ridge students

October 5, 2021 at 3:50 p.m.

Students at St. Paul of the Cross Catholic School in Park Ridge got a distinguished visitor Sept. 29 when a Nobel Peace Prize nominee came to speak to them. Juliana...

Oak Park police are investigating a June 22 car theft in which the victim's vehicle was rear-ended on Roosevelt Road and her car stolen.

Professor resigns after being charged with hate crime in Oak Park for allegedly making slurs and spitting at a Black woman

October 5, 2021 at 10:59 a.m.

An Oak Park man charged with a hate crime and aggravated assault has resigned his job as a professor. Alberto Friedmann, 53, resigned his job as a teacher of neurokinesiology...

Dogs who attacked four people, pets in Elmwood Park and Palatine euthanized

October 1, 2021 at 5:32 p.m.

Two dogs who attacked and injured four people and killed another dog since May were euthanized this week, according to Elmwood Park police. The dogs escaped from a yard Wednesday...

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