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Lake Zurich Village Board approves budget with property tax hike

December 9, 2025 at 6:15 a.m.

Lake Zurich officials approved a 3.81% property tax hike at the village board meeting on Dec. 1.

Roosevelt at Salt Creek resident Bobbi Cucco watches Tam Wagner, Roosevelt's executive director, lift Lexi the cat out of her baby carriage during a Hinsdale Humane Society pet adoption event at the retirement community in Elmhurst. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Pet adoption event pairs older residents with older animals from Hinsdale Humane Society

December 2, 2025 at 2:23 p.m.

Bobbi Cucco is nearly 90 years old, and she’s got a plan for the future. Well, for tomorrow morning anyway. Tomorrow, she’ll wake up, at six with a black paw...

Visitors stroll through Christmas displays Friday in Tinley Park's new Harmony Square. (Jesse Wright/for the Daily Southtown)

Tinley Park tree lighting brightens Harmony Plaza’s inaugural Christmas season

November 23, 2025 at 8:00 a.m.

The event capped a big year for Tinley Park's downtown area as Harmony Square, opened in July, was a $38 million project.

Katy Boehm has been named to the seat on the Leyden Township High School District 212 board once held by her mother, the late Sandra Boehm. (School District 212)

Late Leyden School Board member Sandra Boehm’s daughter steps in to fulfill term

November 19, 2025 at 5:02 p.m.

Katy Boehm will fill the role her mother, the late Sandra Boehm, once held on the Leyden High School District 212 Board of Education.

Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ at 4021 S. State St. in Chicago on Aug. 1, 2023. Mamie Till-Mobley held an open-casket funeral in 1955 for her son, Emmett Till. It has been established as Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Jesse Wright: When it comes to tourism, it’s all about diversity

November 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

If Chicago wants to attract all tourists, it's got to offer something for everybody.

Park Ridge City Council considering a property tax hike to fund $95M budget after years of no increase

November 18, 2025 at 4:06 p.m.

After consecutive post-pandemic years of not raising the city’s portion of property taxes, Park Ridge leaders are looking at such a hike for 2026 – along with several other local...

Triton College in River Grove will compete for the national Aspen Institute’s 2027 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. (Pioneer Press)

Triton College in running for 2027 Aspen Prize, $1 million award

November 18, 2025 at 1:33 p.m.

Triton College in River Grove will compete for the national Aspen Institute’s 2027 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

Cathy Crawford, of Morton Grove, was among the demonstrators outside Morton Grove Village Hall Nov. 12, 2025 in Morton Grove, with Indivisible Skokie Morton Grove Lincolnwood, protesting federal immigration enforcement activities. (Brian O’Mahoney/for Pioneer Press)

Activists rally outside Morton Grove board meeting, calling for ICE-free rules in town. Mayor Witko says they would only be ‘symbolic.’

November 18, 2025 at 4:40 p.m.

A crowd estimated in the dozens gathered outside Village Hall in Morton Grove Wednesday – ahead of the Village Board meeting — for a rally where demonstrators hoped to urge...

Oak Park and River Forest High School educator Sheila Hardin, center, surrounded by her students, has been named the state’s best high school math teacher by the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (Oak Park and River Forest High School)

Oak Park and River Forest High School’s Sheila Harden lauded as math teacher of the year

November 11, 2025 at 11:05 a.m.

Oak Park and River Forest teacher Sheila Hardin was named the state’s best math teacher by the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Tommy Guzlas takes some swings at a pumpkin Nov. 8, 2025, in Crete. (Jesse Wright/for the Daily Southtown)

Pumpkins get a beating for greater good of the environment

November 9, 2025 at 2:37 p.m.

Pumpkins were whacked, beaten, hit and tossed off a deck at the Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve’s Pumpkin Smash in Crete.

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