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Alani Montes De Oca, 13, center, and Alexa Matz, 13, right, cut a ribbon Jan. 29, 2025 to celebrate the renovation of new classroom spaces during a ribbon cutting ceremony at Pennoyer Elementary School in Norridge.(Talia Sprague/for Pioneer Press)

After yearslong push for money, Pennoyer District 79 gets referendum nod and new digs

February 4, 2025 at 9:23 a.m.

After nearly a decade of work, Pennoyer School District 79 in Norridge cut the ribbon on the newest additions to its lone school building. “This has definitely been a journey,”...

Director of the Park District of Oak Park

Jan Arnold, executive director of the Park District of Oak Park, reviews options for the placement of the new Field Center in Field Park during a meeting Thursday, Jan. 30, in Oak Park before commissioners voted on a plan. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Makeover vote for Field Park nets dismay among Oak Park neighbors

January 31, 2025 at 2:07 p.m.

New recreation center at Field Park in Oak Park will replace an existing berm and playground, a move many neighbors opposed.

A rendering shows the design by Patrick Brown, of Chicago design firm ORG Inc., for the new Field Center in Oak Park. (Park District of Oak Park)

Decisions on Oak Park’s new Field Center due Thursday

January 31, 2025 at 4:14 p.m.

Oak Park residents have expressed concerns over the Field Center's cost, the location of the center and its effects on traffic.

People walk into the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove Wednesday, Jan. 22, to check out short silent films made by area high school students. The Student Silent Film Festival has been an annual event since 2017. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Lyons Township team goes silent for Film Festival challenge

January 28, 2025 at 5:03 a.m.

Students from Lyons Township High School participated in the Student Silent Film Festival at the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove.

Lake Zurich trustees hear housing development plan, express concerns over density

January 10, 2025 at 3:40 p.m.

A development group wants to turn Regal Cinema Lake Zurich into a mixed-use housing and restaurant development though the Lake Zurich trustees have worries over traffic, flooding and the proposed...

Park Ridge Mayor Marty Maloney said at the Jan. 6, 2025 meeting he wanted the City Council to weigh in early a special liquor license need a potential cigar bar business could face. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Park Ridge City Council agrees to further look into liquor license cigar bar would need to operate

January 9, 2025 at 10:32 a.m.

Two businessmen looking to bring a special cigar lounge to Park Ridge – and allow patrons to bring their own alcohol into the establishment – got an early nod from...

Lake Zurich board holds off approval on subdivision plan

January 9, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

The Lake Zurich mayor and board of trustees kicked a proposed subdivision plan back to developers so they can work out a schedule for home building.

Tina Taylor-Ritzler has been hired as the next president of Trinity High School in River Forest. (Trinity High School)

Trinity High School’s next president has a long history at the school

December 27, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

Tina Taylor-Ritzler, who will lead Trinity High School in River Forest as president starting in June, has two daughters who went there.

Oak Lawn mother of six drives off in new car from Chevrolet of Homewood

December 24, 2024 at 2:23 p.m.

Deanne Recklaus' life changed Christmas Eve when the Oak Lawn mother of six won a car in a giveaway from Chevrolet of Homewood,

Photography enables David Boxell, of Burr Ridge, to be present in the moment. “I look out and I watch the wildlife, and I just look at nature and I look at trees and sometimes I’m praying and most of the time I’m reminiscing about yesterday or the day, but I’m listening,” he said. (King-Bruwaert House)

Burr Ridge man finds peace through photography, then shares it

December 24, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

David Boxell, a resident at the King-Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge, got into nature photography as therapy for a neurological disorder.

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