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New Trier High School in Winnetka. (Pioneer Press)

New Trier students held in classrooms during Thursday emergency

September 9, 2024 at 5:34 p.m.

Students at New Trier High School’s Winnetka campus were kept in their classrooms for roughly 30 minutes Thursday morning due to an incident classified as an emergency, officials said. Out...

Wilmette police arrest two in home burglaries; similar to Skokie, Glenview crimes

September 4, 2024 at 11:46 a.m.

Wilmette Police Department officers have arrested two people in connection with several local residential burglaries, police said Tewayne T. Kennedy, 28, of the 8900 block of Lavergne Avenue, Skokie, and...

Gerhard’s owner Mary Greub, left, speaks with former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and his wife, Dodie McCracken. (Daniel I. Dorfman/For Pioneer Press)

Lake Forest’s Gerhard’s Elegant European Desserts celebrates 30th anniversary; ‘It has that small-town feel yet big-city quality’

September 3, 2024 at 1:36 p.m.

There were difficult days at the start, but the customers eventually started coming in wanting to eat tasty desserts. Today, her biggest seller is a dark chocolate mousse that comes...

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New Trier students held in classrooms during Thursday emergency

Wilmette police arrest two in home burglaries; similar to Skokie, Glenview crimes

Lake Forest’s Gerhard’s Elegant European Desserts celebrates 30th anniversary; ‘It has that small-town feel yet big-city quality’

Lake Forest school board president blasts hiring oversight; ‘Steps are being taken so that it doesn’t happen again’

Murphy will retire as police chief in Wilmette, moving closer to home to be top cop in Barrington Hills

Lake Forest D67 reviewing procedures after near-hiring of ‘inappropriate behavior’ suspect

Potential compromise reached in Lake Bluff pickleball dispute; ‘There is a renewed spirit of cooperation’

As Deer Path Inn celebrates 95th year, it’s voted a top resort hotel by Travel & Leisure Magazine

New Trier High School welcomes Michael “Dusty” Napoleon as baseball coach

Glencoe’s National Night Out gives residents chance to interact with law enforcement