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The Damen Green Line Station in Chicago on Oct. 9, 2026, following a fatal stabbing of a CTA employee. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Fatal Green Line stabbing prompts call by State’s Attorney Burke for electronic monitoring reform

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By Tess Kenny

October 13, 2026 at 5:38 p.m.

Last week’s fatal Green Line stabbing has renewed calls for electronic monitoring reform.

Officials take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the final phase of the Arboretum Villas at Plymouth Place Center for Senior Living on Oct. 7 in La Grange Park. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Plymouth Place breaks ground on new senior housing units in La Grange Park

By Hank Beckman

October 13, 2026 at 11:21 a.m.

Officials broke ground on the final phase of the Arboretum Villas at Plymouth Place Center...

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...

Madonna Slepicka, owner of River Forest Chocolates, was inducted into the Triton College Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame on April 11, 15 years after deciding to take a chocolate making class at the college. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

River Forest chocolatier tastes sweet success, earns Wall of Fame nod from Triton College

By Jesse Wright

April 19, 2025 at 5:09 a.m.

River Forest Chocolates owner Madonna Slepicka may never have gotten into the business if it...

David Schaafsma's write-in bid for a seat on the Oak Park and River Forest District 200 School Board ended in defeat after election officials posted write-in totals on April 16. (Bob Skolnik/Pioneer Press)

After write-in votes counted, Josh Gertz confirmed on Oak Park and River Forest School Board

By Bob Skolnik

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April 16, 2025 at 5:32 p.m.

David Schaafsma's write-in campaign for a seat on the Oak Park and River Forest High...

Samantha Steele, seated, a candidate for Cook County assessor, waits her turn to speak during the Cook County Democratic Party pre-slating event, April 16, 2025, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Tangled rivalries complicate campaigns for Cook County property tax offices

By A.D. Quig

April 16, 2025 at 5:27 p.m.

Hopefuls were already staking their claims Wednesday to vie for three major property tax offices on...

La Grange Trustee Beth Aug.ine introduces the Fiscal Year Year 2025-2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget at the April 14 Village Board meeting in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange OKs plan to spend $8.2 million on water infrastructure work

By Hank Beckman

April 15, 2025 at 2:56 p.m.

La Grange officials approved a budget plan Monday that includes $8.2 million to address the...

Sarah Cox, curator of exhibits at the Elmhurst History Museum, discusses early farms and farmers in DuPage County during an April 9 tour of the new Acre by Acre exhibit at the museum in Elmhurst. (Graydon Megan/Pioneer Press)

DuPage County’s agricultural roots highlighted in new exhibit at Elmhurst History Museum

By Graydon Megan

April 15, 2025 at 12:21 p.m.

Elmhurst History Museum’s newest exhibit examines the farming heritage and roots put down by pioneering...

Longtime friends Emma Francis, left, and Caroline Kelly who graduated from Nazareth Academy in 2023, set up an Egg My House business while they are home from college, where they set up Easter egg hunts on area lawns. (Emma Francis)

Longtime friends hatch ‘Egg My Yard’ business in Hinsdale in time for Easter

By Chuck Fieldman

April 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Nazareth Academy grads Emma Francis and Caroline Kelly will spend Saturday night arranging Easter egg...

Nehir and her buddy Emme Barnes stop for an official FISH Prom for Teens with Disabilities portrait at Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park. (Nazareth Academy)

Community news: Nazareth Academy hosts FISH Prom, Leyden teachers lauded, and more

By Paul Eisenberg

April 14, 2025 at 12:05 p.m.

News from around the west suburbs includes items from Nazareth Academy, Leyden High School, Hinsdale...

Elsworth Carman has been hired as the new director of the Oak Park Public Library. He previously worked in Oak Park as the library's manager of library services in the early 2010s before eventually becoming director of the Iowa City Public Library. (Oak Park Public Library)

New Oak Park library director eyes ‘healing work’ amid DEI dustup

By Bob Skolnik

April 11, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

New Oak Park Public Library director Elsworth Carman replaces Joslyn Bowling Dixon, who was fired...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle presides over a Cook County Board meeting in the board room on April 10, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle acknowledges troubled tech overhaul

By A.D. Quig

April 11, 2025 at 7:56 a.m.

Days after Tribune-Injustice Watch investigation, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said, while difficult, tech overhaul...

The 51-voice Hinsdale Chorale, led by artistic director Mary Hopper, will present its spring concert, “Better Together,” on April 26 and 27 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange. (Peter Welander)

Hinsdale Chorale recruits voices from throughout region for Better Together concert in La Grange

By Myrna Petlicki

April 10, 2025 at 4:16 p.m.

Hinsdale Chorale sets Better Together concerts at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange with SoliVocé...