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The Pop Local program at the Village Center in Burr Ridge offers temporary brick and mortar spaces to online retailers.

Village Center welcomes three new pop-up businesses to Burr Ridge

October 27, 2020 at 12:26 p.m.

Burr Ridge Village Center's property management recently announced three new short-term, or pop-up, additions to the shopping center. The new, locally-owned businesses will pay no rent for their duration in...

Burr Ridge Administrator Doug Pollock is retiring on November 6. File photo.

Pollock retiring as Burr Ridge administrator, will continue as part time planner

October 13, 2020 at 11:44 a.m.

After three years as village administrator for Burr Ridge, Doug Pollack, is retiring on Nov. 6. Pollock has been with the village for years, beginning as a city planner in...

Superintendent Timothy Kilrea is retiring at the end of the 2020-21 school year.

Timothy Kilrea, Lyons Township High School leader, announces retirement

October 6, 2020 at 6:56 a.m.

Last week, Timothy Kilrea, Lyons Township High School District 204 superintendent, announced he plans to retire at the end of this school year. He has been with the district since...

Within an hour or so of opening, a line formed to get into Cupid Candies as Oak Lawn residents waited for one last malt or sweet treat. Fans of Cupid Candies stopped by Sunday to say farewell to a beloved Oak Lawn store.

Customers flock to Cupid Candies for final weekend at Oak Lawn store; had been part of community for 64 years

September 27, 2020 at 6:22 p.m.

Cupid Candies, a longtime Oak Lawn candy store, closed its doors Sunday. The store was part of the community for 64 years and on its last day the little store...

Jayson and Drew stand with their mom, Valerie Miller, protesting their school's reopening plan.

Parents protest online learning as Homer Elementary District 33C plans for eventual reopening

September 23, 2020 at 2:42 p.m.

Despite a crowd of protesting parents outside their board room demanding an end to distance learning, the Homer Elementary District 33C Board voted Wednesday to only partially begin in-person classes....

Kathy Kuehner, a deputy vote registrar, sets up a voting registration booth next to the testing site.

Nonprofit organizes free COVID-19 test site for Blue Island community

September 23, 2020 at 12:48 p.m.

Residents of Blue Island had a chance Wednesday to get something for the first time: a free, local COVID-19 test. Affordable Recovery Housing, a nonprofit that provides housing and other...

Father and son Andy and Paul Boblak attend the GOP Jamboree Friday at Konow Farm in Homer Glen.

GOP Jamboree in Homer Glen seeks to recruit younger members to party

September 21, 2020 at 10:24 a.m.

Hundreds of people turned out Friday for a GOP Jamboree at Konow Farm in Homer Glen featuring well-known Republican speakers David Clarke, the former sheriff of Milwaukee County, and Ann...

Lisa Chose, 87, dines with family members on German food Monday at Porter Place in Tinley Park, where a program called As You Wish brought in Chef Klaus Bier Stube to cater a special meal for Chose.

New ‘Wish’ program brings memories of Old World to life at Tinley Park facility

September 17, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Lise Chose turned 87 with a trip down memory lane. Chose, a resident at Porter Place in Tinley Park, is from Germany so the staff helped recreate her childhood memories...

Crowds line up to celebrate the groundbreaking of the ECHO Joint Agreement Special Education Cooperative.

Schools break ground for special education cooperative building serving south suburbs

September 9, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.

Community, faculty and supporters of the Exceptional Children Have Opportunities Joint Agreement Special Education Cooperative met under a tent Tuesday in South Holland for a groundbreaking for the school for...

Village Center in a file photo. Town officials are considering creating a special business development district.

Burr Ridge leaders consider sales tax hike to pay for business development district

September 4, 2020 at 2:36 p.m.

Burr Ridge trustees are discussing creating a business development district that could bring in jobs as well as new tax revenue but could also mean additional taxes _ and they...

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