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Girls lacrosse: Hersey tops Prospect to keep lead in MSL race

By Lou Nunez Jr.
Apr 24, 2025 9:47 pm - This spring's girls lacrosse season in the Mid-Suburban League will be fused into one 11-team conference due to Wheeling not fielding a varsity squad meaning the top two ...
Softball: Weaver, Psyhogios blast homers in Libertyville’s one-sided win

By Marty Maciaszek
Apr 24, 2025 9:37 pm - Freshman McKenna Weaver is glad she could join the fun that started for Libertyville’s softball team during last year’s surprising run to a sectional title game. Weaver h...
Des Plaines enacts grocery tax to avoid losing $1.4 million annually

By Russell Lissau
Apr 24, 2025 12:56 pm - Des Plaines has joined a growing list of suburbs implementing a local 1% sales tax on groceries to offset the pending elimination of a state tax.
Mount Prospect’s Maple Street Lofts sells for $60 million

By Steve Zalusky
Apr 24, 2025 8:45 am - One of the new luxury apartment complexes shaping downtown Mount Prospect has a new owner and a new name.
Police: Niles man groped teenage girls in Park Ridge

By Jake Griffin
Apr 23, 2025 3:20 pm - Park Ridge police have arrested a Niles man they say groped several teenage girls near downtown last summer.
80 years ago this week, a Cook County forest preserve was converted into a POW labor camp

By Jake Griffin
Apr 22, 2025 5:51 pm - Nature is slowly reclaiming a swath of land buried deep inside a suburban forest preserve near Des Plaines that was turned into a World War II prisoner of war labor camp 80 years ago this week.
Dining out: Blind wine tasting contest, new menus and more

By Rick West
Apr 22, 2025 4:04 pm - Head to a Cooper’s Hawk restaurant for a blind wine tasting contest to be entered to win a prize, check out these new restaurant menus, and The Original Rainbow Cone is offering a Tuesday ice cream deal for its 100th birthday.
Best Bets: Laugh it up with Lisa Ann Walter at Zanies Rosemont

By Barbara Vitello
Apr 22, 2025 9:10 am - “Abbott Elementary” actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter headlines Zanies Rosemont, comedian/filmmaker/author W. Kamau Bell headlines The Den Theatre and Long Grove welcomes beer fans to its Craft Beer Fest Saturday.
Des Plaines council approves pay raises for future elected officials

By Russell Lissau
Apr 21, 2025 9:33 pm - Des Plaines’ future mayors, city council members and city clerks will be paid more than the current officeholders -- but the raises won’t go into effect until 2029.
Softball: Elk Grove knocks off defending MSL East champ Hersey

By John Leusch
Apr 21, 2025 9:28 pm - Over his 44 seasons as the Elk Grove softball coach, Ken Grams said he recalls very few catchers he's sent out behind the plate who called their own pitches. "Maybe one o...

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