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Skokie village board passes resolution calling for the prohibition of nuclear weapons as part of local push

August 25, 2020 at 5:38 p.m.

In the wake of the 75th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Skokie Village Board joined a growing list of municipalities...

Skokie to use $100,000 in grant money to protect residents from eviction in wake of coronavirus pandemic

August 25, 2020 at 5:08 p.m.

With a moratorium on evictions in Illinois extended until mid September due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Skokie officials recently voted to allocate $100,000 in grant money to residents who are...

Skokie Public Library renovation slightly delayed due to COVID-19 closures; curbside pickups continue

August 12, 2020 at 7:41 a.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a delay in the partial reopening of the Skokie Public Library, officials have announced. The $18 million renovation started early this year and a...

Niles Township Food Pantry establishes composting program to repurpose spoiled food

August 7, 2020 at 3:09 p.m.

Niles Township Supervisor Bonnie Kahn Ognisanti has only been on the job since January, but quickly into her tenure she realized the Township Food Pantry was unnecessarily throwing away a...

Oakton Community College accepting entries for women’s art show ‘Where Are We Now? Activism of the Everyday’

August 5, 2020 at 3:52 p.m.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for social justice sweeping the country, Oakton Community College is asking women artists to submit online entries to its annual art...

A beekeeper harvests honey from a beehive in Chicago in this file photo.

Skokie partners with Oakton Community College on community beehives

August 4, 2020 at 2:07 p.m.

There's something buzzing in Skokie. A recent agreement between the village and Oakton Community College is set to establish a community collection of beehives, also knows as an apiary, on...

LaShandra Smith-Rayfield speaks during an anti-racism rally at near Lighthouse Beach in Evanston.

Anti-racism rally held in Evanston, days after Confederate flag towel displayed at beach

July 31, 2020 at 7:02 p.m.

Hundreds gathered Friday afternoon near Lighthouse Beach in Evanston, days after visitors displaying a Confederate flag beach towel were confronted by a resident. In a widely shared social media video...

Skokie allows block parties to resume, with health restrictions in place

July 21, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

Block parties are back. After Illinois entered Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan, the village of Skokie is once again allowing block parties to be held. However, coronavirus-related health...

Security officer Felix Matanzo takes a visitor's temperature at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center July 15, 2020.

Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie welcomes back visitors after coronavirus closure

July 21, 2020 at 3:01 p.m.

When Dori Mages's mother asked her to tag along for the July 15 reopening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center in Skokie, Mages said she felt compelled to...

Daniel Mota and Peter Koun hold large Roman Candles designed by the store and offer them to customers buying fireworks at Uncle Sam's Fireworks store in Hammond, Ind. on Monday, June 22, 2020.

In some suburbs, fireworks complaint calls are way up this year: ‘Leave it to the professionals’

July 7, 2020 at 10:51 a.m.

No, it's not just you. The number of fireworks complaint calls in some north suburbs is in fact up dramatically this year, according to local police officials. The trend is...

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