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Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Northbrook police said a Glenbrook North High School employee has been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and impersonating a police officer in connection with a late-night...

Northbrook officials have informed "Save Northbrook" campaigners to move their signs off of parkways and onto their own property.

Glenview woman accused of sign theft says issue overblown

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

A Glenview woman accused of theft after she removed signs opposing a proposed Northbrook development said she was just trying to clean up the neighborhood. Katherine Owens, 55, was cited...

Shout Out: Mary Claire Seeberg, back to (her former) school

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Mary Claire Seeberg just started teaching math at Northbrook Junior High School, which she also attended as a kid. She recently graduated from Marquette University, where her little brother Mark...

Bill Lutz, who threw out the first pitch in a recent Northbrook youth baseball game, pitched in Northbrook's first Little League game in 1951.

Northbrook Little Leaguers reflect on playing ball in the 1950s

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Bill Lutz is 78 years old, but every year around this time, he remembers playing in a Little League baseball game in early September of 1951, when he was 12...

Wescott School’s master of musicals enters his final season

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

For decades, Northbrook's Wescott School has started the new year with an open-air assembly, and for 37 of those years, music teacher Bill Vaananen has been there, behind his electric...

Shout out: Chris Nibeck, techno wiz

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Northbrook's Chris Nibeck is now technology director of 210 Restaurant, a local-source restaurant with live music in Highwood. He handles everything from computerized guest checks to sound quality to live-streaming...

Cantor Steven Stoehr hugs the Rev. Mark Smith at the conclusion of Wednesday evening's "A Call For Unity" event at Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook.

Northbrook anti-hate event slams white supremacy, urges unity

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Hundreds of people at "A Call to Unity" event in Northbrook Wednesday heard exhortations to fight racism, concerns about white supremacy and rejections of violence but they didn't hear the...

Rabbi Aaron Melman of Congregation Beth Shalom (center left) and Imam Hazim Fazlic of the Islamic Cultural Center (center right) are expected to appear at a "Call for Unity" at Beth Shalom on Wednesday, Aug. 23.

After Charlottesville, Northbrook temple holds ‘Call for Unity’

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

In the wake of the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that resulted in a deadly attack on counter-protesters, one Northbrook temple has issued "A Call for Unity" at...

Most — but not all — eyes were turned toward the sky at Greenbriar School during the eclipse of the sun.

Solar eclipse an event for all ages in Northbrook

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Eric Moyano, 9, fresh from viewing Monday's partial solar eclipse through his homemade shadow box, proudly struggled to get the 5-foot-long corrugated-cardboard instrument over the Cherry Lane hill in Northbrook....

W.W. Grainger is planning a move from its 10.7-acre Northbrook campus, shown here, and its Niles location.

Grainger moves from Northbrook, Niles may signal redevelopment

May 14, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

W. W. Grainger, an industrial supply firm, plans to move the functions of its Northbrook facility by July of 2018, a spokesman confirmed Friday. But the business' move away from...

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