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Bounce houses attract fun seekers at Hinsdale's annual Fall Family Festival held at Robbins Park in 2021. The festival, and bounce houses, will return Oct. 24 at Hinsdale Middle School and downtown Hinsdale. (James C. Svehla/Pioneer Press)

Bounce houses, free pumpkins and other seasonal fun return for Hinsdale Family Fall Festival

By Chuck Fieldman

October 14, 2026 at 2:40 p.m.

Hinsdale's Family Fall Festival typically attracts more than 500 people, and both residents and nonresidents...

A student interacts with the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System at Oak Park and River Forest High School on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (Cam'ron Hardy/Pioneer Press)

Oak Park and River Forest High School students get hands-on experience with robot surgical device

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 14, 2026 at 5:04 a.m.

Oak Park and River Forest High School students had a unique opportunity to interact with...

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

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.

Mezzo-soprano Janet Jensen Reynolds is accompanied by members of the Kaia String Quartet during a Dec. 22 performance of Handel’s "Messiah" at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Area performers bring ‘Messiah’ to life at La Grange church

By Hank Beckman

December 27, 2024 at 12:10 p.m.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange hopes to make its first presentation of Handel's 'Messiah'...

Tina Taylor-Ritzler has been hired as the next president of Trinity High School in River Forest. (Trinity High School)

Trinity High School’s next president has a long history at the school

By Jesse Wright

December 27, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

Tina Taylor-Ritzler, who will lead Trinity High School in River Forest as president starting in...

Clarendon Hills officials have OK'd a tax increment financing district they hope will spur development along 55th Street, including the site of the former Tracy's Tavern, pictured in 2018. (Chuck Fieldman/Pioneer Press)

Clarendon Hills compromises with schools on new 55th St. plan

By Chuck Fieldman

December 26, 2024 at 2:43 p.m.

Clarendon Hills OKs a scaled back 55th Street TIF district in response to objections from...

Ed Condon, superintendent of River Forest District 90, sits with elementary students in the STEM lab at Lincoln School in River Forest. Condon recently announced plans to retire after 15 years of working in the district. (River Forest District 90)

River Forest superintendent Ed Condon sets retirement plan

By Bob Skolnik

December 24, 2024 at 3:48 p.m.

Ed Condon, the superintendent of River Forest School District 90, announced his plans to retire.

Photography enables David Boxell, of Burr Ridge, to be present in the moment. “I look out and I watch the wildlife, and I just look at nature and I look at trees and sometimes I’m praying and most of the time I’m reminiscing about yesterday or the day, but I’m listening,” he said. (King-Bruwaert House)

Burr Ridge man finds peace through photography, then shares it
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By Jesse Wright

December 24, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

David Boxell, a resident at the King-Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge, got into nature photography...

Former stock car driver Fred Lorenzen, at his Oak Brook home on July 3, 1993, looks at a trophy he won at the Daytona race many years ago. Lorenzen regrets retiring at 33. “I was the first driver to win $100,000 in a year. Now that’s peanuts.” (John Dziekan/baiduhai)

Fred Lorenzen, ‘the Elmhurst Express’ and NASCAR Hall of Famer, dies just shy of 90

By Graydon Megan

December 24, 2024 at 2:18 p.m.

Elmhurst native Fred Lorenzen, who won the 1965 Daytona 500 and is enshrined in the...

Investigator Frank Anson places an electronic monitoring device on a detainee inside the electronic monitoring discharge facility in the basement of Cook County Jail, April, 12 2018, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Electronic monitoring in Cook County: Officials poised to make changes but few details available

By Madeline Buckley

December 23, 2024 at 1:21 p.m.

Experts and county stakeholders have long criticized parallel electronic monitoring programs as wasteful, but soon...

Brianna and Jonathan Cowans hold a rendering of plans for the new Wooden Paddle restaurant in La Grange as their children, Flora and Kingsly play at the Calendar Avenue site. The Cowans, who moved their original restaurant from Orland Park to Lemont in 2017, are opening a second location in La Grange. (Wooden Paddle)

Restaurateurs turn La Grange expansion into YouTube reality series

By Jeff Vorva

December 22, 2024 at 5:13 p.m.

Owners of Wooden Paddle restaurant in Lemont are documenting the rigors of expanding into a...

Amy Wojak exits a Party City store in the North Center neighborhood on Dec. 22, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Party City customers say goodbye as retailer announces closure after 40 years: ‘It’s going to be missed in the neighborhood’

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By Ikram Mohamed

December 23, 2024 at 6:18 a.m.

Chicago has five locations, according to the company's website, with dozens of other stores across...

Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher and activist Anthony Clark poses for a portrait at L!ve Cafe Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, in Oak Park. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Activist Anthony Clark, who ran against Danny Davis, resigns as OPRF teacher

By Bob Skolnik

December 23, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.

Controversial Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher Anthony Clark, who ran for Congress...