The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Business Mixer at Jackson Junge Gallery to celebrate the release of the 2025 WPB Neighborhood & Arts Guide and unveiling of the cover artwork.

A front loader reloads road salt into a Niles Public Works plow at the public works facility. (Journal file photo) Motorists and pedestrians awoke to a thin layer of ice blanketing sidewalks and ...

Bears principal owner Virginia McCaskey, eldest daughter of team founder, player and coach George Halas (in background photo), is introduced at the team's centennial celebration at the Donald E.

A Niles police squad car. (Journal file photo) While most eyes will be on TV screens this Super Bowl Sunday as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles, Niles police will keep their ...

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At last month’s Maine Township Dist. 207 Board of Education meeting, community members as well as Jewish and Muslim organization representatives voiced their respective concerns and support for ...

Prospect Heights Police Chief Milo Derman (center) flanked by Deputy Chief Mark Pufundt (left) and Sergeant Keith O'Connor at their swearing-in on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. A new police chief, deputy ...

A fire in a Palatine apartment building Wednesday (Feb. 5) reportedly started inside a common wall between two units. Crews at 1:32 p.m. responded to 1223 Woodbury Ln. in unincorporated Cook ...

A small bakery/restaurant that’s operated in Des Plaines for the last 11 years, is closing on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. B’ Sweet Bites, 1641 Oakton Pl. owner Bianca Joseph announced on ...

The Wheeling Fire Department quickly contained a fire in a commercial building near Chicago Executive Airport, at 1400 S. Wolf Rd., Thursday afternoon (Feb. 6). According to a fire department ...

Thoughts & squawks about people, places and things in our neck of the woods. There’s a lot going on… In Des Plaines we heard this week that representatives of the developer who wants to build ...

Mount Prospect Village Hall. (Journal photo) Residents asked trustees for reassurance during the public comment portion of Tuesday’s (Feb. 4) village board meeting after the village posted on ...