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Lynda Levin, right, looks on as Cheryl Goodman decorates a stone during a vigil to honor of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel at the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana in Munster, Indiana Wednesday October 7, 2026. The stones will be added to memorial rock garden outside the federation. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Jewish Federation of NWI remembers victims of Oct. 7 massacre

By Jim Masters

October 8, 2026 at 1:40 p.m.

Many members of the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana knew a family member, friend or...

FILE – Television evangelist Jim Bakker poses in front of the Water Park in Columbia, SC, one of the attractions at his Heritage USA, March 19, 1987. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky, File)

Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86

By Jim Salter

October 6, 2026 at 6:16 a.m.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around...

President Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II are shown at the White House Saturday, Oct. 6, 1979. (AP Photo)

Today in History: Pope John Paul II visits the White House

By Associated Press

October 6, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the...

Students from Lockport Township High School participate in a previous ShareFest Will County food distribution event. The school has been involved in the event for five years. This year's ShareFest distribution has been canceled because of dangerously low temperatures predicted for Sunday. (Lockport Township High School District 205)

Organizers cancel annual ShareFest Will County in Lockport amid freezing forecast for Sunday

By Janice Neumann

December 11, 2025 at 2:25 p.m.

ShareFest Will County, scheduled for Sunday in Lockport, has been canceled amid predicted subzero temperatures...

A woman walks past a Nativity scene outside Lake Street Church of Evanston on Dec. 4, 2025. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Lake Street Church of Evanston updates its Nativity scene: ‘Joseph didn’t make it’

By Richard Requena

December 9, 2025 at 3:43 p.m.

After an Evanston church's ICE-protest Nativity scene was vandalized, it replaced the Joseph figure with...

Rabbi Yisroel Lifschitz will lead a Chanukah celebration Dec. 14 at the Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park. (Yisroel Lifschitz)

Hinsdale’s new Chabad Jewish Center plans Chanukah celebration

By Chuck Fieldman

December 9, 2025 at 2:59 p.m.

A planned Chanukah celebration with a public menorah lighting is only the beginning for the...

A Hindu temple proposed by Umlya Mataji Sastha Chicago Midwest for a site at Galt Boulevard and Route 20 in Elgin has been scaled back to 86,000 square feet with a 90-foot-tall spire. (Mataji Sastha Chicago Midwest)

Commissioners divided over plans to build Hindu temple in Elgin

By Gloria Casas

December 9, 2025 at 2:05 p.m.

A revised plan for a Hindu temple heads to the Elgin City Council without a...

Sergio Valencia, of Mundelein, waits for the horseback procession honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe to begin at the Dam No. 1 Woods in Northbrook on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. Whenever he rides, he said, he thinks of his grandfather, who taught him how. Riders planned to process to the Guadalupe shrine in Des Plaines. (Shun Graves/for Pioneer Press)

Faithful honor Mexican patroness in Guadalupe horse pilgrimage, but numbers lower after ICE raids

By Shun Graves

December 8, 2025 at 9:19 p.m.

Mexican Catholics on horseback gathered in Northbrook to ride to the Our Lady of Guadalupe...

FILE – Archbishop Gregory Aymond, of New Orleans, listens during a news conference at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims in settlement

By Jack Brook

December 8, 2025 at 4:40 p.m.

The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of...

The Crown of thorns inside the reliquary of the Crown of Thorns designed by French Artist Sylvain Dubuisson is seen in of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral while French President Emmanuel Macron visits the restored interiors of the monument, Friday Nov. 29, 2024, in Paris. (Stephane de Sakutin, Pool via AP)

Today in History: Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopened to the public

By Associated Press

December 7, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

On Dec. 7, 2024, the newly-restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was reopened to the public...

The Rev. Michael Woolf in front of a Nativity scene outside Lake Street Church of Evanston on Dec. 4, 2025. The Nativity scene depicts masked centurions wearing federal immigration agent vests, surrounding baby Jesus with Mary and Joseph. Woolf said someone likely stole the zip ties binding Jesus' hands and the respirator worn by Mary. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Evanston church’s Nativity scene depicted baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents

By Richard Requena

December 4, 2025 at 5:04 p.m.

Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus' hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask...

Pope Leo XIV arrives for a meeting with young people in the Square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerke, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

By Bassem Mroue

December 2, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion...

Trinity Lutheran Church in Park Forest in 1957. (Trinity Lutheran Church)

Column: Former Park Forest President Ron Bean remembered; last gathering of Trinity Lutheran Church

By Jerry Shnay

December 1, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.

The death of Ron Bean, the first Black village president of Park Forest, closed a...