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Triton College searching for new board member

May 23, 2019 at 10:10 p.m.

A search is underway to fill a seat on the Triton College Board of Trustees that was recently vacated by Forest Park's village clerk. Vanessa Moritz — a member of...

Parishioners of the New Life Community Church gather to pray during the Faith Fitness and Family Fest in Chicago Saturday, July 11.

Mont Clare church takes fun, fitness and faith to the streets

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

While children and adults played and socialized in the parking lot and the blocked-off street outside New Life Community Church, from time to time a group gathered on the corner....

Carol Olivo gets the children dancing at the Moms and Tots program at Elmwood Park Public Library. The program involves reading to young children, performing puppet shows, singing and dancing. She's been running the program for 15 years.

Moms and tots mix reading with fun at Elmwood Park library

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Young eyes were glued to the small stage as puppets bopped around and lip-synched to music Wednesday morning. For a little over 15 years, Carol Olivo has been the hand...

Weezer's Too, a new shop selling tobacco, pipes and other smoking accessories, recently opened up in Elmwood Park.

New business ready to smoke the competition

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

A new business catering to tobacco smokers recently opened in Elmwood Park, aiming to blow away the competition. Weezer's Too, 2446 N. Harlem Ave., specializes in different types of tobacco...

A garage was consumed by a fire July 5 in the 2400 block of Forest View Avenue in River Grove, also causing heat damage to the owner's residence and neighboring homes.

Garage torched by fire in River Grove

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

A River Grove garage less than a block from the village's fire station caught fire Sunday night, leaving behind only a charred shell of a building. River Grove Fire Chief...

Elmwood Park, 07/04/14--Village President Skip Saviano's float featured a small version of the Statue of Liberty. The Village of Elmwood Park celebrated its 100th anniversary with a Fourth of July parade Friday morning. | Jon Langham~for Pioneer Press

Independent neighborhood watch group barred from parade

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Lack of proper credentials, according to village of Elmwood Park, has the head of a local organization watching the village's Fourth of July parade instead of being in it. Pasquale...

Jeremy Fleischman, 45, stands inside the Jet's Pizza restaurant that he recently opened up in Chicago's Galewood neighborhood.

Jet’s Pizza lands in Galewood

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Tucked away in a strip mall along Harlem Avenue in Chicago's Galewood neighborhood, a new restaurant is throwing its hat into the crowded local pizza market. Jet's Pizza, located at...

River Grove Lions Club member Brock Leder drops 1,000 golf balls at the village of River Grove's Family Picnic in 2014.

Entertainment-packed picnic returns to River Grove

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

River Grove families will have a chance once again to meet at the Gazebo to bond, play, enjoy good food and try to win some cash. The village's Family Picnic...

Mandy McGee from the adult services department pours sugar into crushed fruit while making jam Saturday, June 26, at the Elmwood Park Library.

Jam draws participants out to craft event

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Food is a good motivator, and the Elmwood Park Public Library has been using it to draw people to participate in the library's monthly adult craft event since the beginning...

One of several signs placed on Triton College's campus letting students, staff and visitors know that the entire campus will become smoke-free July 1.

Triton College bans smoking on entire campus

May 23, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

As Nancy Salvadorini approached the sliding doors of Triton College's Student Center, she took one last puff of her cigarette, then put it out and threw it in the garbage....

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