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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

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...

Sue Nibeck, who helped found the Hinsdale Farmers Market 50 years ago, visits with a vendor at the market Monday, June 15, in Hinsdale. (Kim Notaro)

Hinsdale Farmers Market founder Sue Nibeck looks back on 50 years of fresh food

By Chuck Fieldman

June 16, 2026 at 5:07 a.m.

Sue Nibeck, who founded the Hinsdale Farmers Market in 1976, returned to help celebrate 50...

La Grange area resident Stella Grace Fitzgerald, right, joins fellow stars Nate Bargatze, Mandy Moore, Charlotte Tucker, and Birdie Borria at "The Breadwinner" Nashville Premiere at Regal Hollywood & RPX on May 13, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

La Grange area actress makes her big screen debut in ‘The Breadwinner’ after earning straight As

By Jim Dudlicek

June 17, 2026 at 9:59 a.m.

Stella Grace Fitzgerald, a student at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, stars with...

Oak Park home vandalized with antisemitic message: Officials

By Cam'ron Hardy

June 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Oak Park officials issued a statement following an incident of an Oak Park home being...

A coalition of clergy and community activists gather to call attention to deaths of inmates at Cook County Jail, in the 2700 block of South California Avenue, Nov. 29, 2023, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Cook County settles with family of man who hanged himself in jail cell

By A.D. Quig

June 11, 2026 at 6:48 p.m.

Michael O’Connor's family sued under the state’s Wrongful Death Act, alleging the Cook County sheriff's...

Cook County Commissioner Alma Anaya urged officials Wednesday to "knock all the wood" that the county will meet its property tax deadline.

Library and school leaders let Cook County officials have it over costly property tax delays

By A.D. Quig

June 10, 2026 at 6:37 p.m.

Library and school district officials laid into Cook County leaders Wednesday over the latest two-month...

A woman addresses the Oak Park Village Board Tuesday, June 9, about a May 31 police-involved shooting that left a Chicago man dead. (Cam'ron Hardy/Pioneer Press)

Group decries police shooting in Oak Park that left Chicago man dead
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By Cam'ron Hardy

June 10, 2026 at 4:46 p.m.

Oak Park residents looked to the board for the release of footage of the police-involved...

Children ride The Frog during Daisy Days in Clarendon Hills in 2016. The popular festival returns this year on June 19 and 20. (Jeff Krage/Pioneer Press)

Clarendon Hills Daisy Days offers ‘small town USA’ fun June 19 and 20

By Chuck Fieldman

June 10, 2026 at 11:16 a.m.

Daisy Days, started by Clarendon Hills in 1964 to celebrate the 40th birthday of the...

A person waits in line at the treasurer's office at City Hall in Chicago on Nov. 20, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Cook County property tax bills will again be late, Toni Preckwinkle says

By A.D. Quig

June 9, 2026 at 4:53 p.m.

Toni Preckwinkle announced Tuesday she is again setting aside $300 million to loan to local...

Debbie Proska, of Lombard, will portray Bertha Honore Palmer on June 20 in a performance series inspired by the exhibit “History of Her: Women Who Shaped Chicagoland,” at the Elmhurst History Museum. (Carolyn Thomas-Davidoff)

History of Her exhibit in Elmhurst inspires GreenMan Theatre Troupe performance series

By Myrna Petlicki

June 9, 2026 at 11:16 a.m.

A Elmhurst History Museum exhibit has inspired a series of free performances about prominent Chicago...

Oak Park resident Juanta Griffin waives a Juneteenth flag from a float during during the village's annual Juneteenth parade June 18, 2023 in Oak Park.

Juneteenth events planned in Oak Park and surrounding towns

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By Cam'ron Hardy

June 8, 2026 at 5:26 p.m.

Oak Park and its neighboring areas are taking part in celebrating the freedom of enslaved...