Police departments from Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Burr Ridge are increasing their presence at District 181’s nine elementary schools.
Hinsdale area schools expand partnership with police departments
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Oswego OKs concept plans for nine-hole indoor golf course: ‘This is first on the Earth right in Oswego’
“This is fantastic. There’s nowhere in the world like this. This is first on the Earth right in Oswego,” Village President Ryan Kauffman said.
Illinois rental assistance program restarted, with $75M available for renters and landlords
Illinois allocated $75 million in state funding to continue to provide rental assistance to renters and their landlords for fiscal year 2025.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes first-in-the-nation attempt to employ undocumented students
California’s public university campuses will not be opening campus jobs to undocumented students after Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected legislation to create such a mandate.
Bryce Riley, just a sophomore, turns on jets for West Aurora. He gets tough yards, too. ‘Impressive young man.’
Bryce Riley produced TD runs of 50 and 94 yards as West Aurora played without Iowa recruit Terrence Smith, sidelined by an injury.
Skokie trustees reject raises for mayor and village clerk
The Skokie village board went through a series of convoluted motions on Monday as it considered whether or not to approve raises tied to inflation for the incoming mayor, clerk and trustees after the 2025 board elections. The board ultimately decided to reject the raises. Trustee Alison Pure Slovin first proposed the raises at the previous board meeting two weeks ago, citing that the mayor and clerk had not received a raise since 2016. A last-ditch effort by Trustee James Johnson had the board reject the raises with unanimous support from the village board. The board read through a routine […]
Grace Christos avoids year-round club soccer in an elite program. Wheeler gets her ‘blood, sweat and tears.’
Christos, who is talking with Division I and Division II programs, is a fourth-year varsity starter for Wheeler.
Rick Armstrong’s Aurora-Elgin area football rankings and players of the week
Batavia takes over the top spot, while Oswego East and Marmion also join the rankings.
Ex-Ald. Edward Burke to report to prison, where he’ll be federal inmate No. 53698-424
Former Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke famously spent decades at the pinnacle of the city’s political power structure, but on Monday he was bestowed a new, rather inglorious title. Federal inmate No. 53698-424. Burke, 80, checked himself into the low security federal prison camp at Terre Haute, Indiana, over to weekend to begin serving his two-year sentence on a corruption case that sent shockwaves through the political establishment and tanked Burke’s record run as the city’s longest-serving alderman. The camp, which houses about 260 male inmates, is situated 180 miles due south of Chicago. While no official release date has […]
Rock-painting project gets community involved with Peace Garden in Batavia
The Batavia Parks Foundation, which has been celebrating the United Nations International Day of Peace on Sept. 21 the past few years, elected to recognize the day differently this year with a pop-up event on Saturday at Riverwalk South Plaza near the Peace Bridge in Batavia.