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The Assembled Products Buffalo Grove facility will take and send its last shipments this fall before closing for good.

Assembled Products to shut down Buffalo Grove operation by October

May 14, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Buffalo Grove will lose 81 jobs by October, after Assembled Products closes its doors. Founded in 1919, the manufacturer will fall just short of the century mark when its parent...

Al Brandwein, who is in contention for a national award in the VA's arts contest, is working on a new chalk-and-charcoal drawing.

Lincolnshire veteran and self-taught artist competes in national Veterans Affairs contest

May 23, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Had someone taught Al Brandwein how to draw when he was a kid, maybe he would have been nominated for a national award sometime before he turned 90. But then,...

The often empty south parking lot of the Regal movie theater could become a pair of apartment buildings.

Lincolnshire officials have mixed opinions about CityPark development proposal

May 23, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

The vote that will decide the future of a major residential/commercial development idea —and, according to some Lincolnshire Village Board members, maybe the future of the town's economy —is coming...

Stevenson High School board starts a dialogue regarding transgender restroom use

May 23, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

It's not that the Stevenson High School bathrooms are dirty, or unusually smelly. When Nick Holcman was a Patriot, his problem with the lavatories was that he felt uncomfortable in...

Shout Out: Blake Sherwood, Stevenson junior and aspiring banker, venture capitalist

May 23, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Stevenson High School junior Blake Sherwood will achieve a goal this summer when the U.S. Department of State will send him and 599 other students overseas to study foreign languages...

In one of the sorting rooms in the back of the Buffalo Grove Post Office, clerk Bipen Patel waits with scanner in hand while supervisor Sandi Lambert digs up another package for him. On April 18, Lambert and Patel helped a woman find the handicap parking placard that she accidentally tossed into a mail slot.

Post office pulls off Tax Day miracle for Buffalo Grove woman

May 14, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

On one of the busiest days of the year for post offices across the country, staff at Buffalo Grove Post Office still made time to go above and beyond to...

District 21 will keep police officers in middle schools

May 14, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Community Consolidated Elementary District 21 will continue to station police officers in its three middle schools. With a 4-3 vote, the school board instructed superintendent Kate Hyland to prioritize the...

Buffalo Grove recently reversed a seven-year ban on video gaming, clearing the way for full-service restaurants to use the machines.

Buffalo Grove reverses 7-year ban on video gaming machines

May 14, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Once adamant against full-service restaurants having video gambling machines in Buffalo Grove, Village Board members now welcome it, and the move has at least a few restaurant managers interested in...

Denny Stone helps students cross the street near Longfellow Elementary School in Buffalo Grove in August 2015. Stone has been working as a crossing guard for 20 yards. Community Consolidated Elementary District 21 reached a deal with the village of Wheeling over crossing guards at certain intersections near schools in the district.

Wheeling, District 21 come to terms for crossing guards

May 14, 2019 at 3:30 a.m.

Community Consolidated Elementary District 21 will continue to work with Wheeling Village Hall to keep crossing guards in front of its schools — but only at five intersections, instead of...

Kevin Kjell (left), 23; Stephanie Kirschner, 23; Rebekah Schmitz, 23; and Sarah Gangl, 23, share a laugh April 21 during the young-adult Bible study at South Park Church in Park Ridge. Throughout the northwest suburbs, religious groups are trying to attract millennials.

Area congregations searching for ways to attract younger worshippers

May 14, 2019 at 3:30 a.m.

At South Park Church in Park Ridge, the interdenominational evangelical church sponsors a study group that could make several other religious groups in the northwest suburbs envious. On Thursday nights,...

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