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Northbrook Park District commissioners say the district would be better off if the Northbrook Leisure Center were razed and replaced.

Northbrook Park District commissioners: Leisure Center is a teardown

May 14, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

The Northbrook Park District is short on indoor space, and the Northbrook Leisure Center should be torn down and rebuilt to create more of it, all six commissioners said at...

Contractors have lowered prefabricated concrete containers below the surface of Northbrook's Wescott Park to complete a 7.5 million gallon flood-control vault.

Big vault project nears completion

June 10, 2018 at 11:26 a.m.

After months of work, Northbrook contractors have finished inserting 860 prefabricated concrete containers beneath the surface of Wescott Park, creating a 7.5 million gallon vault that planners and homeowners hope...

Art and Jan Wulf, photographed in 2002, on the occasion of their purchase of a home in the then-under-construction Shermer Place in Northbrook.

Glenbrook officials review manifesto by man who police say killed Northbrook parents

May 14, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

Glenbrook School District 225 said Thursday that staff interviews and a review of a lengthy manifesto, which police say was written by a former student who killed his parents in...

Shout Out: Grace Elisco

May 14, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

Grace Elisco, 18, an active volunteer through her teen years, was honored by the Northbrook Village Board recently for spearheading an initiative to widen the scope of the Northbrook Youth...

Northbrook Park District hires new executive director

May 14, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

The Northbrook Park District hired a new executive director on July 11, as the district is taking a look at its future. Molly Hamer is a 30-year veteran of the...

A semi-truck caught a power line on Dundee Road in Northbrook Monday morning, complicating traffic already slowed by construction.

Truck hits Northbrook power line, snarls Dundee Road traffic

May 14, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

Dundee Road traffic was snarled for hours Monday after a semi-trailer truck snagged a power line, pulling a utility pole to a 45-degree angle. The mishap occurred at 11:24 a.m.,...

Culex pipien mosquito specimens in the insect collection at the Field Museum, shown on Aug. 21, 2012. This mosquito carries the West Nile virus.

West Nile virus found in Northbrook

May 14, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

West Nile virus has been found in a batch of mosquitoes caught this month in Northbrook. The North Shore Mosquito Abatement District said in a release Friday it collected two...

Mission Hills residents suing to stop Red Seal from developing half the golf course between their home won the right on June 7 to test for toxins at the site. In this photo, sawdust flies as trees are cut down at the Mission Hills gated community in Northbrook on December 10, 2015.

Arsenic found on Mission Hills housing site

May 14, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

Arsenic at levels beyond those considered safe by state regulators has been found on the Mission Hills Country Club property where Red Seal wants to build 137 homes, according to...

Young reflects on changes in District 30

May 14, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

In the 22 years Chris Young ran the business end of Elementary School District 30, the budget doubled, from about $12 million to about $24 million, according to records. The...

Shout Out: Sabrina Janaczak/commuting teacher

May 14, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

Sabrina Janaczak teaches French in Denver, Colo., and gets back to her home in Northbrook "for every free moment I have," to be with her husband and two sons, 14,...

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