New Italian restaurant prepares to open in downtown La Grange
A new Italian restaurant is preparing to open in La Grange in the place where La Buona Vita closed in March. The timing is questionable, since as of Monday, indoor...
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Toni Patisserie, a new men’s clothing store and Egg Harbor Cafe in Hinsdale all seek liquor licenses
More Hinsdale businesses want to sell alcohol or packaged liquor as a way to attract customers and add to their sales. Egg Harbor Café, Baldinelli and Toni Patisserie & Café...
Lighting showroom wants to open in Hinsdale’s downtown
A luxury lighting store wants to open in the Garfield Crossing building in downtown Hinsdale. Circa Lighting, which has about 20 showrooms across the country, including in the River North...
Hinsdale High School District 86 considers saliva-based COVID-19 tests and how to pay for them
A saliva test for COVID-19 has been submitted to federal regulators for emergency use authorization and Hinsdale High School District 86 is one of many school districts that are interested...
Protests, 5G and referenda for schools and firefighters made news in the western suburbs in 2020
While the coronavirus dominated the news in 2020, people in Hinsdale, Western Springs and nearby towns, also were talking about 5G, racial injustice and the preservation of historic homes. Protests...
First babies of 2021 born at Hinsdale, Elmhurst hospitals
Hinsdale and Elmhurst hospitals both had their first babies of 2021 born on Jan. 1. Gianna Ulloa was the first baby born in the new year at Elmhurst Hospital, to...
Hinsdale District 86 looks to lease more space for growing Transition Center and Bridge programs
Four years after celebrating the opening of its new Transition Center, Hinsdale High School District 86 has outgrown the building and is looking for more space. In 2016, District 86...
A look back at how the western suburbs coped with the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
Editor's note: This article is the first of several that will run in The Doings editions about 2020. More will be published in the next week. The impact of the...
Shortage of candidates for Burr Ridge District 180 School Board
In Burr Ridge School District 180, five of the seven members of the School Board are up for election in April, but only four people have filed to be candidates....
2021 School Board elections in La Grange, La Grange Park and La Grange Highlands will be contested
The La Grange District 105 School Board will have several new members next year. Six people have filed to fill the four seats on the District 105 School Board that...