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A volunteer walks past signs for migrants alerting them to free social services at the Migrant Center in Forest Park. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Years later, migrants bused into Oak Park area still living in limbo

By Jesse Wright

October 13, 2026 at 5:05 a.m.

The border crisis landed in Chicago around Christmas in 2023. Shipped up from Texas, migrants...

Hinsdale Middle School is pictured in 2015. (Brett Johnson/Pioneer Press)

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills ranked among best k-12 schools in state

By Pioneer Press

October 12, 2026 at 5:06 p.m.

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 has been recognized as one of the state's premier public...

Tower Green in Western Springs will be the backdrop for a Get out the Vote Rally organized by Indivisible West Suburban Chicago from 1 to 2 p.m. Oct. 17. (Steve Metsch/Daily Southtown)

Grassroots group holding ‘get out the vote rally’ in Western Springs

By Steve Metsch

October 12, 2026 at 4:57 p.m.

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago will encourage early voting at a rally from 1 to 2...

La Grange area kids, cops, and firefighters face off in a balloon tossing event Aug. 5 at the 2025 National Night Out in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange, La Grange Park, Western Springs and Countryside have a Night Out together

By Hank Beckman

August 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.

Police and residents from La Grange, La Grange Park, Western Springs and Countryside have a...

Clarendon Hills Little League teammates Hudson Lauerman, left, and Brody Herold celebrate Wednesday Aug. 6 after the final out when Clarendon Hills captured the championship of the Little League Baseball Great Lakes Region to advance to the Little League World Series. (Justin Ayson)

Clarendon Hills team advances to Little League World Series

By Chuck Fieldman

August 7, 2025 at 11:33 a.m.

The Clarendon Hills Little League team continued its magical summer run, earning its first berth...

Music fans board a Metra train in 2016 on their way to the first day of the Lollapalooza festival in downtown Chicago. Metra added trains to the schedule for the festival but riders still experienced crowded conditions on some trains this year. (Alexandra Kukulka/Pioneer Press)

Seats were at a premium on the train to Lollapalooza as Metra ridership rises
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By Paulina Czupryna

August 5, 2025 at 4:05 p.m.

The Lollapalooza festival brought thousands of people to Chicago from the suburbs, many who filled...

Diane and Thomas Tyrrell stand by a sign in the new Health Services Building at Elmhurst University that honors her. Thomas Tyrrell is an alum and now a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. (Elmhurst University)

Community news: Elmhurst U names health department after longtime nurse, and more

By Melinda Moore

August 5, 2025 at 11:48 a.m.

News from around the community includes items from Elmhurst University, Hinsdale, Downers Grove and Cantigny...

Max Michaels, center, is looking forward to participating in the national T-Mobile Little League Home Run Derby Aug. 21 at Volunteer Stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League Baseball World Series. (La Grange Park Little League)

La Grange Park Little League slugger to compete in national Home Run Derby

By Chuck Fieldman

August 5, 2025 at 10:24 a.m.

La Grange Park's Max Michaels has qualified for the national home run competition at the...

Triton College dean Julia Willis, from left, student Brigette Dolinski and director of Student Support Initiatives Stephanie Townsend pause at the school's Troy Mart, which provides meals for students who need them. (Steve Metsch/Pioneer Press)

Triton College’s Troy Care Collective offers resources to students in need

By Steve Metsch

August 5, 2025 at 5:04 a.m.

Triton College in River Grove has expanded its safety net for students in need because...

A protester identifying herself as a teacher shouts to police to remove their hands from her as she was escorted out of U.S. Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall July 30, 2025, in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/for Pioneer Press)

US Rep. Sean Casten shouted down at town hall, pro-Palestinian protesters removed

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By Hank Beckman

August 1, 2025 at 1:10 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten abruply ended a town hall meeting in La Grange after pro-Palestinian...

Gov. JB Pritzker at Chute Middle School in Evanston on July 31, 2025, signs into law a mandate that will require Illinois public schools to offer students between third and 12th grades an optional mental health screening. (Richard Requena/Pioneer Press)

Illinois schools to offer mental health screenings under bill Gov. Pritzker signed in Evanston

By Richard Requena

August 1, 2025 at 2:06 p.m.

Illinois the first state in the nation to require public schools to offer mental health...

Some Chicago-area JCPenney stores, including Mokena and Orland Park, are being sold in an all-cash deal slated to close in September. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

JCPenney sale includes chain’s top-performing locations in Southland

By Mike Nolan

August 4, 2025 at 1:17 p.m.

An all-cash deal worth nearly $950 million will have JCPenney stores, including Mokena and Orland...

UChicago Medicine AdventHealth hospital in Hinsdale and its hospital in La Grange received a $2.4 million donation from the estate of Dorothy V. Clarke and Kenton H. Clarke Jr. (Kimberly Fornek/Pioneer Press)

Longtime Hinsdale family bequeaths $2.4 million to hospital foundation

By Jesse Wright

July 31, 2025 at 12:54 p.m.

The estate of Dorothy Clarke, Kenton H. Clarke Jr. and their son Irving Vant Clarke...