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Kids who attended “Harvest Fest” Oct. 4, 2025 at Olson’s Ace Hardware store were able to paint pumpkins under a tent outside the store in Park Ridge. (Jesse Wright/for Pioneer Press)

‘Harvest Festival’ in Park Ridge opens North Park area to the community

October 7, 2025 at 2:54 p.m.

Moms, dads and plenty of kids stopped by Olson’s Ace Hardware in Park Ridge Saturday for the annual “Harvest Festival” the store hosts and opens to the greater community. The...

Nazareth Academy President Deborah Tracy presents longtime school employee Dennis Moran with a plaque marking the dedication if the school's football field in his honor Friday, Oct. 3, during Homecoming festivities at the school in La Grange Park. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Dennis Moran, who gave Nazareth Academy ‘the gift of his life’s work,’ now has a football field named for him

October 6, 2025 at 3:55 p.m.

Dennis Moran has been a coach, president and athletic director at Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park, where his name now adorns the football field.

Elmwood Park native Anthony Ciancio, creator of the documentary film “How we Roll,” and his wife, Lauren Massarella, who coproduced the film, stand outside the Madison Street Theater in Oak Park during the Oak Park Film Festival this month, where the film about Elmwood Park's popular bocce ball league won a Best Documentary award. (Anthony Ciancio)

Elmwood Park bocce ball documentary gets a hometown screening

September 30, 2025 at 11:01 a.m.

“How we Roll” is the story of Mike Ciancio and the bocce ball league he founded in Elmwood Park that attracts hundreds weekly.

Lake Zurich board, over local objections, approves Block A development

September 22, 2025 at 4:06 p.m.

Lake Zurich leader approved a site design for Block A that will include nearly 20 townhomes and a restaurant over parking concerns from the neighbors and a rejection from the...

Demonstrators participate in an anti-ICE protest Sept. 12, 2025 along an Interstate 94 overpass on Winnetka Avenue in Winnetka. (Audrey Richardson/for Pioneer Press)

North Shore area group stages protest against Trump and ICE agents on the ground in Chicagoland: ‘This isn’t the nation I grew up in’

September 16, 2025 at 7:45 p.m.

Amid a recent increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across Chicagoland, protesters launched a rush hour demonstration near exits of the Edens Expressway at Lincolnwood, critical of...

Lincolnwood mayor Jesal Patel delivers the "State of the Village" address Sept. 10, 2025 in Lincolnwood. (Jesse Wright/for Pioneer Press)

Lincolnwood mayor touts redevelopment of ailing Lincolnwood Town Center mall as financial boon for village

September 16, 2025 at 3:07 p.m.

Lincolnwood mayor Jesal Patel said he is hopeful his town can turn the Lincolnwood Town Center from a dying mall into an economic engine for the small suburb. The mayor...

At the Sept. 15, 2025 Park Ridge City Council meeting, Alderperson Joseph Steinfels changed his vote on the gateway sign issue from no to yes, helping the measure to spend $215,600 on installation to pass. (Jesse Wright/for Pioneer Press)

A Park Ridge alderman changed his ‘no’ vote on spending $215K for town entry signs. Now the city will install them.

September 16, 2025 at 2:21 p.m.

The Park Ridge City Council reversed course on paying for new city gateway signs, choosing Monday night to approve spending over $200,000 for new signs after two weeks ago voting...

Trinity High School President Tina Taylor-Ritzler discusses her first 100 days on the job during a reception for her Sept. 11 at the school in River Forest. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Trinity High School officially welcomes new president Tina Taylor-Ritzler

September 16, 2025 at 4:50 p.m.

Tina Taylor-Ritzler got her official invocation and Mass as the head of Trinity High School in River Forest last week.

City Council scraps plans to replace aged Park Ridge gateway signs, to mayor’s irritation: ‘If they fall down, they fall’

September 9, 2025 at 5:55 a.m.

After spending thousands of dollars for new welcome signs to be designed, Park Ridge aldermen voted to not move forward with plans to install them.

The Frankfort Lions Club represented in Sunday's Fall Festival parade in a 1903 replica car. (Jesse Wright/for the Daily Southtown)

Frankfort Fall Festival draws big crowds, top-tier crafters, for Labor Day event

September 1, 2025 at 12:13 p.m.

The Frankfort Fall Festival brought more than 300 vendors from across the country and drew crowds for a parade Sunday afternoon.

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