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Former Winnetkan uses summer camps to open world of fashion, sewing to young students

May 10, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

For anyone who has retreated in frustration from their sewing machine, defeated by bobbins, uncontrollable thread tension and undecipherable dress patterns, stitchery as creative fun might be a foreign concept....

Closing the Carson's store at Wilmette's Edens Plaza will contribute to a loss of sales tax in coming years, village officials say.

Wilmette eyes up to $500,000 in sales tax losses as it heads into 2019 budget work

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

Wilmette administrators warned Tuesday that that the village government could lose about $500,000 in annual income — about 13 percent of its sales tax receipts — with the closing of...

New Trier official says racist graffiti speaks ‘to the climate of safety in our schools’

May 10, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

The hurtful impact on black students of three incidents of racist graffiti at both New Trier High School campuses is “impossible to overestimate,” a district administrator says. Tim Hayes, assistant...

Nicolleta Vlahos plants a flag to remember fallen soldiers.

Kenilworth Club Memorial parade nears century mark

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

It might have been cold and wet, but that didn’t keep Kenilworth residents from turning out Sunday for the village’s annual Memorial Day parade, service and picnic. The day started...

Winnetka District 36 drops plan to close neighborhood schools after public outcry

May 10, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

After hearing from district residents wary of large scale changes to its neighborhood school setup, the Winnetka Elementary District 36 Board has decided against the most ambitious of its proposed...

The Wilmette Park Board has approved guidelines for placing memorial plaques on trees, walls and other amenities at parks like Langdon.

Wilmette Park District sets guidelines for more than 1,200 memorials in parks

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

With more than 1,200 memorials on benches, trees and elsewhere in Wilmette parks sometimes requiring work arounds for landscapers, the Wilmette Park Board is moving to standardize policies for such...

Wendy Sharon (left) of the Wilmette Theatre, and Carole Dibo of the Actors Training Center, in 2014.

Wilmette Theatre, Actors Training Center split to pursue diverging missions

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

The Actors Training Center and the Wilmette Theatre, long a single organizational entity in downtown Wilmette, have split amicably in order to pursue diverging missions but will continue to cooperate...

Working group chair John Jacoby presents a minimum wage and paid sick time research report to the Wilmette Village Board May 15, 2018.

Wilmette to reconsider adopting Cook County minimum wage, sick time laws next month

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

The Wilmette Village Board will consider next month whether to stick with a 2017 decision to opt out of Cook County’s minimum wage and paid sick time ordinances, or to...

Cavanagh wins 2017 Police Officer of the Year honor

May 10, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

Connor Cavanagh, who has been a Wilmette police officer since 2011, is the department's 2017 Officer of the Year, an award bestowed in a vote by fellow officers. Getting their...

Sacred Heart Church in Winnetka will be part of the new Divine Mercy parish.

Divine Mercy is new name for merged Winnetka, Northfield Catholic parishes

May 10, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

Sacred Heart Church in Winnetka and St. Philip the Apostle Church in Northfield, due to merge July 1 as part of the Chicago Archdiocese's Renew My Church consolidation, have a...

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