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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...

Mya Coglianese crosses the finish line May 17, winning the women’s division in the 2026 La Grange Park Run for the Roses in La Grange Park. In was the third consecutive win in the race for the graduating Lyons Township High School senior. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Lyons Township senior Mya Coglianese takes third straight title in La Grange Park’s Run For The Roses

By Hank Beckman

May 26, 2026 at 1:51 p.m.

For the third straight year, Lyons Township's Mya Coglianese won the women’s division of the...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke after a news conference announcing the creation of the Regional Transit Task Force at the Roosevelt CTA station in Chicago’s South Loop on May 18, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

Prison sentences for retail theft doubled in 2025, according to report studying policies of State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke
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By Madeline Buckley

May 20, 2026 at 5:14 p.m.

A court-monitoring group that studied policy changes during the first 500 days of Cook County...

Kaitlin Wright, a consultant with Baxter and Woodman, gives an overview of the options for replacing lead water service lines to the La Grange Village Board during its May 11 meeting in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange to pay part of lead water line replacement cost, but rest of the bill may fall on homeowners

By Hank Beckman

May 21, 2026 at 11:45 a.m.

As La Grange decides how to fund mandated replacement of lead water service lines, officials...

Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen, from left, speaks with Cook County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Police Arthur Jackson and Cook County State’s Attorney’s Eileen O’Neill Burke ahead of a news conference announcing the creation of the Regional Transit Task Force at Roosevelt CTA station in Chicago’s South Loop on May 18, 2026. The task force's goal is to combat transit-related crime across the city and county in collaboration with local and federal law enforcement partners. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

State’s attorney launches transit crime prosecution task force

By Talia Soglin

May 19, 2026 at 9:54 a.m.

The Cook County state’s attorney's office Monday announced a new task force made up of...

Rica Bouso, of Chicago, points out details of Gene Cernan’s spacesuit, worn the Apollo 10 mission, to her son Ander during a retirement party for the spacesuit and 12 other items from the 1969 mission, on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at the Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in River Grove. (Steve Metsch/Pioneer Press)

Gene Cernan’s Apollo 10 spacesuit gets a ‘retirement party’ at Triton before shipping back to Smithsonian

By Steve Metsch

May 18, 2026 at 3:10 p.m.

The spacesuit NASA astronaut Gene Cernan wore in the 1969 Apollo 10 mission is heading...

Elmhurst University raised more than 310,000 during Jay It Forward Giving Day 2026. (Elmhurst University)

Community news: Jay It Forward Giving Day raises over $300K, and more

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By Melinda Moore

May 19, 2026 at 2:41 p.m.

News from the community includes items from Elmhurst University, Western Springs, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Oak...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park in 2017. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings are always worth revisiting

By Edward Keegan

May 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Two new books on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie and Bogk houses build upon the remarkable...

Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard plans to open in September in Clarendon Hills at the former site of Four Sons Mercantile, which closed in March. (Village of Clarendon Hills)

Clarendon Hills to address ‘community clamor for ice cream’ with new Rita’s Italian Ice outlet

By Chuck Fieldman

May 15, 2026 at 4:05 p.m.

Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard will open in Clarendon Hills at the former site...

Grace Deane, a Hinsdale Central High School graduate from Clarendon Hills, joins Rashid Bashir, dean of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, after being presented the school's Andrea J. Culumber Memorial Award. (Karen Deane)

Hinsdale Central grad lauded with engineering award at U of I

By Chuck Fieldman

May 15, 2026 at 2:34 p.m.

Grace Deane, of Clarendon Hills, an engineering student at University of Illinois, won the the...

Longfellow Park's newest art piece, Safe Haven, stands 10-feet tall outside on Wednesday, May 13. (Cam'ron Hardy/Pioneer Press)

Oak Park’s Longfellow Park gets a permanent ‘Safe Haven’ as part of major renovation project

By Cam'ron Hardy

May 14, 2026 at 3:36 p.m.

The sculpture Safe Haven by Shencheng Xu recently was installed at Longfellow Park in Oak...