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Highland Park teenager Sumner Silver (center), pictured with Institute for Nonviolence Chicago’s Vice President of Development and Communications Shunda Collins (left) and Associate Director of Reentry and Support Services Les Jenkins (right), donated 170 Hope Kits to that organization. (Dana Silver)

Highland Park tragedy inspires HS student to create trauma response kits

April 7, 2025 at 4:25 p.m.

Sumner Silver was not at the July 4, 2022 parade in Highland Park, where a gunman killed 7 people and wounded 48 others, but she shared the grief of those...

Pastor Ausrele Stoniene opened Glory House International in Lemont a year ago after spending four years refurbishing a century-old building. (Ausrele Stoniene)

After leaving ‘dream job,’ Burr Ridge pianist restores century-old church in Lemont

April 1, 2025 at 12:21 p.m.

Lithuanian immigrant Ausrele Stoniene was a pianist for the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, but left to "become a servant for God.”

The Executive Committee of the Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago and scores of other volunteers have been hard at work planning the 2025 Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens, which runs from April 26 to May 25. (Katrina Wittkamp)

20th biennial Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens being held at 1895 Pembroke Lodge

March 31, 2025 at 5:31 p.m.

The creativity of dozens of interior designers and landscape designers will be on display at the 2025 Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens, April 26-May 25.

Rebecca Carter-Chand, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Programs on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust, will speak about “Understanding Rescue During the Holocaust” on April 6 at Elmhurst University. (Rebecca Carter-Chand)

Elmhurst University’s Holocaust Service of Remembrance program focuses on helpers

March 26, 2025 at 1:11 p.m.

The lecture “Understanding Rescue During the Holocaust” is part of Elmhurst University’s 35th Annual Holocaust Service of Remembrance.

Rabbi Schachar Orenstein, the new rabbi at Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Wheeling, has many innovative plans for engaging congregants. (Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue)

Wheeling synagogue, after an exhaustive search, selects new rabbi to lead the congregation

March 24, 2025 at 5:52 a.m.

After an exhaustive search that included input from the entire congregation, Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Wheeling has selected Rabbi Schachar Orenstein as its new rabbi.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has new leadership as it celebrates 25th Anniversary

March 18, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is celebrating its 25th season with two new individuals in key positions.

Andres DeLeon (center) stars as Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert” by Highland Park Players, March 28-30, at McGrath Family Performing Arts Center in Wilmette. (Highland Park Players)

Highland Park Players performing Hunchback of Notre Dame musical in concert

March 18, 2025 at 11:25 a.m.

Victor Hugo’s novel about the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo, who longs for the beautiful Esmeralda, found new life in the 1999 musical, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” by Alan Menken...

“The MisCast Cabaret” cast gathers in a circle to rehearse their group numbers from the Theatre of Western Springs’ benefit production for their theater and Theatre Palisades, a community theater in California whose space was destroyed by wildfires. (Theatre of Western Springs)

‘MisCast’ or not, performers to raise funds for theater destroyed in California wildfires

March 18, 2025 at 10:59 a.m.

Theatre of Western Springs’ production of “The MisCast Cabaret” raising money for fire damaged Theatre Palisades in California.

Vying for three seats on the Wilmette Park District Board of Commissioners are candidates, from left, Nancy Johnson, Patrick Duffy, Allison Frazier, Kara Kosloskus, Paul
McKinley and Anastasia Royal. They shared their views March 1 at a League of Women Voters candidate forum held at Wilmette Village Hall. (John Petlicki for Pioneer Press)

Wilmette Park District candidates air views, including need for new parks director

March 17, 2025 at 11:09 p.m.

Six candidates are competing for three available seats on the Wilmette Park District Board in the April 1 Cook County consolidated election. One of the issues the Board is facing...

Performers will reach new heights at the Triton Troupers Circus, April 10-13, at Triton College in River Grove. (Anna Cillian)

‘Everyday neighbors performing death-defying feats’ at Triton circus

March 17, 2025 at 2:39 p.m.

Triton College’s Triton Troupers Circus features performers who have been learning circus arts at the school in River Grove.

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