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University of Illinois graduate student McKenzie Macon, center, helps Evanston resident Gerald Johnson with a DNA kit as part of the TAKiR project on July 3, 2025, at Evanston City Hall. (John Konstantaras/for the Pioneer Press)

DNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa

August 4, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, living relatives in Africa.

People shop at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill., Monday, July 4, 2022.

Not happy to lose $2.7 million, Glenview to consider extending 1% grocery tax

July 31, 2025 at 10:17 a.m.

Glenview trustees, not happy to lose $2.7 million in revenue when a 1% state grocery tax ends Dec. 31, may consider extending it.

A child rides an e-bike on North Walnut Street on July 10, 2025, in Itasca. Glenview is among many suburbs considering e-bike regulations; other suburbs have already passed such regulations. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

After crashes, Glenview Board discusses e-bike regulation

July 24, 2025 at 6:22 a.m.

After several e-bikes crashes, Glenview is mulling regulating them. It may ban them from sidewalks when in electric mode.

A commercial airliner approaches O'Hare International Airport on Feb. 21, 2024, in Norridge. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Wilmette set to battle O’Hare airplane noise by joining commission

July 10, 2025 at 3:09 p.m.

The Village of Wilmette said O'Hare airplane noise has increased. It applied to join the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission.

Glenview resident Jeff Green shows the audience a composting container during a June 16, 2025, informational meeting on a food scrap drop-off pilot program at the Glenview Public Library. (Jennifer Johnson/for Pioneer Press)

Glenview starts composting, joining Glencoe, Skokie, Northbrook, Evanston with programs

June 30, 2025 at 1:41 p.m.

This summer, residents of Glenview will be able to drop off more than borrowed books at their public library. Beginning July 8, green bins accepting kitchen food scraps for compost...

Wilmette Village Hall. (Brian L. Cox/for Pioneer Press)

Wilmette adopts initial plan to boost affordable housing from 4.8% to required 10%

June 23, 2025 at 2:17 p.m.

Wilmette developed an initial plan to increase its share of affordable housing from 4.8% to the 10% required by Illinois law.

Cedille Records President and Founder James Ginsburg, son of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, names Glenview native Oliver Talukder, right, the winner of Cedille's second Emerging Artist Competition sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation. (Elliot Mandel)

Glenview native wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s son’s ’emerging artist’ music contest

June 19, 2025 at 11:39 a.m.

Glenview native Oliver Talukder, who plays oboe for the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, is musically inspired by everyone from Lady Gaga to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His closest brush with celebrity, however, came...

An electric vehicle charges up at a charging station at 2241 Willow Road in Glenview in May 2025, one of about 25 public stations in the village. (Jennifer Johnson/for Pioneer Press)

Glenview, plus Skokie, Evanston, Wilmette, Glencoe, smooths way to electric vehicle charging

May 27, 2025 at 9:20 a.m.

Glenview joined Electric Vehicle Readiness Program to prep for EV charging; Skokie, Evanston, Glencoe, Wilmette are members.

Priests from Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago and Ascension of Our Lord Greek Orthodox Church in Lincolnshire perform a prayer service at the makeshift memorial in Glenview for Marko Niketic May 12, 2025. Niketic had been about to graduate from Glenbrook South High School when he was killed in a car crash a year prior. (Jennifer Johnson/for Pioneer Press)

Loved ones honor Glenview’s Marko Niketic on one-year anniversary of fatal crash

May 19, 2025 at 5:15 p.m.

More than 200 gathered to mark the one-year anniversary of Glenview teen Marko Niketic, who was 17 when killed in a car crash.

Skokie Mayor-elect Ann Tennes during a Soul Good Coffee pop-up at Sketchbook Brewing, April 12, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

20 years of conversations beat money, big names in historic Skokie mayor race

May 2, 2025 at 12:35 p.m.

A Skokie candidate with 20 years of networking and service beat a newcomer with big money, endorsements in the mayor race.

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