Wilmette – Page 10 –

In 1976, Illinois buried a ton of time capsules. What we’re digging up now is complicated, or sometimes weird.

July 21, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

JCPenney catalogs, an old baseball, essays to the future. Or sometimes just boring paperwork. In...

July 20, 2026 at 2:56 p.m.

Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves volunteers used old-fashioned scythes to clear invasive species at Somme...

July 20, 2026 at 12:02 p.m.

Leadership cited a sudden "decline in enrollment" for Roycemore School's closure following a period of...

July 17, 2026 at 5:01 p.m.

A five-story, 30-apartment complex on Emerson in Evanston was approved despite objection from neighboring landmark...

July 17, 2026 at 12:38 p.m.

Cook County's watchdog has found that Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele made "an offer...

July 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Judges often hold defendants in jail while awaiting trial, even when given a low score...

July 15, 2026 at 5:09 p.m.

City Council voted 4-2 to regulate Evanston's "sweepstakes" machines, but failed to receive the five...

July 15, 2026 at 3:58 p.m.

Evanston police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl who was found "unresponsive" in...

July 14, 2026 at 7:55 a.m.

Red-winged blackbirds are dive-bombing people, in the North Shore suburbs and Chicago, who walk too...

July 13, 2026 at 12:59 p.m.

A fourth suspect has been charged in relation to an April shooting on Howard Street...