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Costumes will be encouraged during Scary Skate on Oct. 24 at the Franklin Park Ice Arena. (Melinda Moore/Pioneer Press)

Community news: Costume contest, casket races and spooky farm highlight Halloween-themed events

By Melinda Moore

October 9, 2026 at 5:07 p.m.

News from the community includes items from Franklin Park, Forest Park, Countryside, La Grange, Lemont,...

Passengers board a Pace bus as a CTA Green Line train pulls in near the intersection of Harlem and South Boulevard in Oak Park, Friday, June 20, 2025. Students at Oak Park and River Forest High School who don't have a ride to school will have to continue to rely on public transportation after the School District 200 board renewed an expeption from a rule requiring them to provide school bus services. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Despite petition, Oak Park and River Forest High School renews school bus exemption
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By Cam'ron Hardy

October 9, 2026 at 4:40 p.m.

School buses are too expensive, board tells Oak Park and River Forest High students who...

Police seek info in I-290 shooting that closed westbound lanes Thursday night

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 9, 2026 at 12:59 p.m.

Illinois State Police closed lanes on I-290 Thursday night after responding to an alleged highway...

The Hemingway Birthplace Museum in Oak Park, home of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. (Pioneer Press file)

Hemingway Foundation taps teacher, mentor as latest Writer in Residence

By Myrna Petlicki

July 7, 2026 at 2:05 p.m.

Amelia Estelle Dellos, an award-winning writer and filmmaker, will mentor the winner of the Hemingway...

Students tune guitars during the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 Summer Learning Program at Prospect School in Clarendon Hills Wednesday, June 29, 2016. (James C. Svehla/baiduhai)

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills school program aims to prevent ‘summer slide’

By Chuck Fieldman

July 6, 2026 at 4:34 p.m.

Learning opportunities in Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 don’t stop at the end of the...

Jenna Leving Jacobson speaks at an Oak Park and River Forest High School Board of Education meeting in favor of the board funding the students feeding students initiative on Thursday, June 25. (Cam'ron Hardy/Pioneer Press)

Oak Park and River Forest students seek $160K for food insecurity initiative

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By Cam'ron Hardy

July 7, 2026 at 11:48 a.m.

A proposal before the the School District 200 board to devote $157,000 to fund Students...

Acoustic artist Dan Maguire, folk singer-songwriter Mark Dvorak and the duo Lone Canary will perform July 10 at First United Methodist Church of La Grange. (Dan Maguire)

Community news: Award winning live music in La Grange, free ice pops in Franklin Park

By Melinda Moore

July 6, 2026 at 3:39 p.m.

News from the community includes items from La Grange, Franklin Park, Hinsdale, La Grange Park,...

Peter Schwartz, a Forest Park resident, looks at books inside the new Barnes & Noble in Oak Park on its opening day on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (Cam'ron Hardy/Pioneer Press)

Oak Park’s newest bookstore returns tomes to storied location

By Cam'ron Hardy

July 2, 2026 at 9:52 a.m.

A new Barnes & Noble opened Wednesday in Oak Park, making it the third of...

An employee holds a Colt Match Target 9 mm AR semiautomatic rifle at Suburban Sporting Goods in Melrose Park on June 30, 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court indicated it would hear arguments possibly later this year over Cook County's ban on so-called assault weapons. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Supreme Court to hear Cook County assault weapons ban case, potentially setting up test for Illinois gun law

By Rebecca Johnson

June 30, 2026 at 9:37 p.m.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke vowed to “not back down” from defending the...

Oak Park Police Department in-vehicle dashboard camera shows footage of an officer and Christian Wallace struggling over a weapon that was found in Wallace's waistband. Wallace was later fatally shot four times by the police officer on Sunday, May 31, 2026. (The Village of Oak Park)

Oak Park officials release footage from fatal police shooting in May

By Cam'ron Hardy

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June 30, 2026 at 4:30 p.m.

Oak Park officials released video footage from a fatal shooting of a 38-year-old Chicago man...

“La Grange resident Al Foreman urges the La Grange Village Board to conduct proper oversight on the village's newly outsourced finance operation at a June 22 meeting in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange contracts with Florida firm to outsource finance department

By Hank Beckman

June 30, 2026 at 10:54 a.m.

The La Grange Village Board hired Lauterbach and Amen for accounting and advisory services instead...

Alexandra Nichols, of Clarendon Hills, sits with her daughter, Blair, who turns 5 in August. Nichols is starting a new Daisy Girl Scout troop in Clarendon Hills. (Alexandra Nichols)

Clarendon Hills mom hopes to ‘create special moments’ with new Daisy Girl Scout troop

By Chuck Fieldman

July 7, 2026 at 1:44 p.m.

A Clarendon HIlls mom is organizing a Daisy Girl Scout troop she hopes will help...

Memorial Hall in downtown Hinsdale is pictured in 2015. Hinsdale was recently ranked as the 1tth wealthiest suburb in the nation by an online banking firm. (Pioneer Press file)

Hinsdale ranked No. 11 in list of nation’s wealthiest suburbs

By Chuck Fieldman

June 30, 2026 at 5:08 a.m.

Hinsdale was ranked as the nation’s 11th wealthiest suburb in a recently-released ranking by mobile...