Burglars hit almost two dozen vehicles in overnight spree
Wilmette police on Tuesday warned residents to keep their cars locked, even inside locked garages, after the village was hit with 22 burglaries to unlocked autos overnight. Most of the...
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Winnetka business owners worry that downtown redesign could cost too much parking
By the time Vicki Hofstetter opens Oui, Madame at 10 a.m., she says it's already hard to find parking near her Lincoln Avenue shop in Winnetka's east Elm Street business...
Balloon cars and marble runs help Wilmette students learn science and technology
Central Elementary School in Wilmette experienced some STEAM heat Friday that had nothing to do with the school's furnace, and everything to do with students and their families using science,...
Wilmette police: Woman nabbed in connection with 2015 shoplifting
The following items were taken from area police department reports and releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Wilmette DUI Bobby Hayes, 64, of the 500 block...
Trump-Russia timeline creator calls it a tool to track a complicated issue
Author and blogger Steven J. Harper says if he wrote his timeline as a Tom Clancy novel, no publisher would buy it. "It's way too far-fetched," he said. The attorney...
Shrinking beach may mean no swimming at Wilmette’s Langdon Park this summer
Jonathan Lustig often takes his jogging runs along the Lake Michigan shoreline, up through Wilmette and into Langdon Park. The Evanston resident hasn’t seen lake levels fluctuate much this year,...
Youngsters harvest almost 14,000 Easter eggs at Winnetka Park District hunt
Rain couldn’t stop the Winnetka Park District’s 45th annual Easter egg hunt, a district official said. The Saturday event, complete with 13,950 eggs and an impressive 1,500 kids and parents,...
Student researchers see Chicago communities as partners in gun violence research
When Chicago area residents see news about Englewood, Austin, Lawndale or Garfield Park, it’s usually because those city neighborhoods have sustained one more gunshot wound, one more gun death. What...
After fleeing cops, suspect abandoned car and passengers, then was nabbed on train in Evanston, police say
A Chicago man who sped off from a traffic stop in Kenilworth was arrested several hours later on a train at a Metra station in Evanston after abandoning his car...
Wilmette increases age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21
Wilmette has raised the age for tobacco sales and products in the village from 18 to 21.businesses that sell cigarettes can no longer sell them to 18-year-old customers. But the...