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Village officials ask residents to share their thoughts on condition of One Winnetka site as part of lawsuit

July 10, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

Nearly one year after Winnetka officials quashed a developer's plans to build a $105 million residential-retail project, village officials are asking residents to join their court battle demanding improvements be...

Oakton Community College is pictured May 7, 2020, in Skokie.

Oakton Community College kicks-off new cannabis certification program for students this fall

July 8, 2020 at 7:58 a.m.

Oakton Community College is offering students the chance to train for jobs in the booming local cannabis industry by enrolling in an online certificate program that begins next month. Oakton's...

Winnetka's village hall. (Karen Ann Cullotta/baiduhai)

Winnetka Village Hall reopens; local merchants to host summer sidewalk sale

July 7, 2020 at 2:18 p.m.

Winnetka Village Hall has reopened for business, and downtown merchants are gearing up for a summer sidewalk sale this month during Phase 4 of the state's COVID-19 recovery plan. Residents...

Anthony Auston, director of the Wilmette Public Library, helps distribute books to patrons. As Illinois moves into Phase 4 of the state's COVID-19 recovery plan, the library is planning to re-open the building in the coming weeks.

Indoor dining, village halls reopening mark arrival of Phase 4 of state’s COVID-19 recovery plan in North Shore communities

June 30, 2020 at 12:13 p.m.

The anticipated reopening of some local libraries, expanded park district offerings and indoor dining at area restaurants are among the changes North Shore residents can expect to see after Illinois...

Wilmette’s Chantilly Lace lingerie shop survives ‘retail apocalypse’ with ingenuity, community service

June 30, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

When Illinois' COVID-19 stay-at-home order shuttered Larisa Olson's Wilmette lingerie shop in March, she was determined to find a way for her small business to survive. Olson, an Evanston resident,...

Marchers showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement walk down Dee Road in Park Ridge on June 6.

Suburban protests against racial injustice awakened many white residents. Allies hope they follow through.

June 29, 2020 at 6:42 a.m.

In the 50 years she has lived in Park Ridge, Nan Parson cannot recall a time prior to June 2 when residents rallied publicly against racism. "Never," she said emphatically....

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a news briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic on May 3, 2020, at the Thompson Center in Chicago.

Illinois offers guidelines for schools to reopen classrooms this fall, but questions remain

June 23, 2020 at 8:32 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday released guidance for students to return to the classroom, but his plan left many unanswered questions as parents continue to wonder what school will look...

Students are pictured at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka on March 20, 2019.

Officials at Winnetka, Wilmette schools want to reopen in the fall. But what that looks like has yet to be decided.

June 23, 2020 at 3:33 p.m.

For 86% of parents who completed a recent Winnetka District 36 survey about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their children's education, the message to Superintendent Trisha Kocanda rang...

Walter Calhoun, 62, at his home on June 17, in Highland Park. Calhoun is troubled by a recent petition launched by two 18-year-old Wilmette residents to change the name of his alma mater, Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth.

Teens are leading an effort to rename a Kenilworth school. But siblings from the family they suggested naming the school after aren’t convinced.

June 23, 2020 at 2:13 p.m.

Walter Calhoun and Laura Calhoun Thomas vividly remember the night a cross was burned on the front lawn of their family's Kenilworth home in the mid-1960s. "It was stark, blatant...

North Shore high school graduations celebrated with new traditions in wake of COVID-19 pandemic

June 16, 2020 at 3:51 p.m.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools across the North Shore in mid-March, high school seniors soon learned that their long-awaited traditional ceremonies would be canceled along with a slate of...

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