Four votes decide winner in District 31 board race
Glenview/Northbrook District 31 Elementary School Board Member Peter Stamatis was six votes shy at the end of Election Day on April 4, and when all the mailed and provisional ballots...
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Gas station at Dundee and Pfingsten roads shutters
A gas station and convenience store at the busy corner of Dundee and Pfingsten roads has closed permanently, according to signs posted on the station, which was owned by 7-Eleven....
Former Oprah producer brings food in a jar to Northbrook
Karen Firsel has a unique concept – a restaurant that sells its food in screw-cap jars – but don't think she hasn't thought it through. Seemingly, every inch of the...
Northbrook sending three school bands to state festival
Northbrook will be the only municipality in the state sending three bands to next month's the University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival for high schools and middle/junior high schools,...
Shout out: Don Zabski, school buildings boss
Don Zabski is the director of buildings and grounds for Northbrook/Glenview District 30, where voters recently approved the money to tear down and rebuild Maple School. Zabski and his crew...
Northbrook Fire Department gets top rating
The Insurance Services Office has rated the Northbrook Fire Department at its highest rate possible, Class 1, placing it among the top 243 departments of a total 47,000 nationwide, according...
Weekend of festivals approaching in Northbrook
Northbrook will have one of its busiest festival weekends of the year, as both Earth Day/Arbor Day and an international festival look to keep residents in town Saturday and Sunday....
Study to explore connection between autism and genetics
Denise Ricco didn't know for sure what was hampering her son's development until his relatively mild form of autism spectrum disorder was diagnosed in the fourth grade. She wondered, how...
Jedi Academy’s Jeffrey Brown visits Northbrook grade school
Popular children's book author Jeffrey Brown visited a Northbrook school, passing along a gift he received from another artist, years ago: that a career based on creativity is possible. Brown,...
Park district: Sportsman’s to be a home both for animals, golfers
Mark Kosbab, who runs Sportsman's Country Club, one of the North Shore's busiest public golf courses, says his role as the ecological steward of vast expanse of open land is...