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William Liberopoulos/American flag collector

Shout Out: William Liberopoulos

June 11, 2018 at 9:50 p.m.

Northbrook's William Liberopoulos loves American history, and that's what led to his collecting American flags. He only puts out his 14-foot, 118-year-old 45-star flag (Utah had just been added) for...

A large Northbrook property with a house, barn and corrals is the proposed site for a group home where treated addicts could transition to sober living.

‘Sober living’ home for recovering addicts proposed for Sunset Ridge Road residence

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

A Northfield social worker has proposed using an idyllic Northbrook property as a home for recovering addicts. Stephanie Zwilling has asked Northbrook officials to let her house as many as...

Ballplayers Ken Kozil, left, and Chuck Leve at a March 28 meeting with Northbrook village and park district officials, look at a scrapbook to settle what day their 1966 Glenbrook North High School baseball team won the state championship. They picked June 3.

Northbrook’s 1966 baseball champs return to lead July 4 parade

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

It's been a long time between parades for the players who brought Northbrook its first championship, but they're going to lead one a mile long on July 4. At least...

State Sen. Julie Morrison, D-29, talks Monday to Nate Ruben of Ruben Digital Media about trying to drive down the cost of opening new businesses, after a Northbrook Chamber of Commerce legislative forum.

State legislators discuss state budget woes

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

Traffic has done it. State Sen. Julie Morrison, D-29, said Monday that news that road construction projects could be suspended soon seems to have applied the pressure on General Assembly...

Northbrook leaders on board for changes to redevelop downtown

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

Northbrook trustees may have taken a step toward a new downtown "form-based" zoning code designed to encourage redevelopment, and opened the door to construction of a downtown parking garage. The...

Shout Out: Crystal Figueroa

June 10, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Crystal Figueroa just started working in the produce department of the Whole Foods in Northbrook's Willow Festival shopping center. She's got an associate's degree, but she may return to school...

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.

Judge grants Mission Hills’ request to test Red Seal land for toxins

May 14, 2019 at 10:57 a.m.

A Cook County judge ruled June 7 that Red Seal Development must allow testing for toxins on its Mission Hills site, where it plans 137 units of housing. The ruling...

Tom Blim, right, talks with pilot Darryl Fisher before going for a ride in a World War II-era biplane at the Chicago Executive Airport on June 8, 2016. Fisher, 91, and other U.S. military veterans from Covenant Village of Northbrook took to the skies courtesy of Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation, which honors senior military veterans.

Biplane takes Northbrook veterans for a nostalgic ride high above the earth

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

If you've never flown in a small aircraft, and climb into an open-cockpit biplane at the age of 91, there is a reasonable expectation of nerves and airsickness. So as...

Shout Out: Zach Schafer

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Zach Schafer, 14, is a little nervous about going to Glenbrook North High School next year. He's worried about the seniors, and said he'll "probably get lost." But he's only...

The Northbrook house of Art Wulf and Jan Morgan-Wulf, whose son Aaron, 36, killed his parents on June 1 at their Las Vegas home, according to Las Vegas police.

Officials reviewing abuse allegations made by man accused of killing Northbrook parents

June 10, 2018 at 12:19 p.m.

Police and school officials in Northbrook say they are reviewing documents containing allegations of abuse, sent by the son of a Northbrook couple before he killed them – and then...

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