Richard Requena – Page 26

Northwestern University students affiliated with the group Jewish Voice for Peace set up a sukkah to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Oct. 16, 2024, at Deering Meadow on Northwestern's Evanston campus. (Richard Requena/Pioneer Press)

Northwestern removes hut honoring Jewish holiday, cites policy; Jewish student group calls action antisemitic

October 19, 2024 at 8:39 a.m.

Hours after a Jewish student group from Northwestern University set up a sukkah, a temporary outdoor structure used to celebrate the eight-day holiday of Sukkot, the university administration asked the...

Ascension Mercy Medical Center in Aurora is one of nine Ascencion hospitals being sold to California-based Prime Healthcare. (Ascension Mercy Medical Center)

At Evanston meeting, Prime Healthcare pledges not to close Ascension hospitals for three years

October 18, 2024 at 10:52 a.m.

Before Prime Healthcare seals the deal with Ascension Healthcare to purchase nine of its hospitals and four of its post-acute and senior living facilities, representatives from Prime and Ascension assured...

The Evanston City Council is partnering with a developer to renovate the Harley Clarke Mansion, shown looking west from Lake Michigan, into a wedding venue, hotel, speakeasy and ice cream parlor. (Genevieve Bookwalter/Pioneer Press)

Evanston’s Harley Clarke mansion set to become wedding venue, hotel, speakeasy, ice cream parlor

October 18, 2024 at 5:08 p.m.

After over a decade of failed proposals and continued decay, the Evanston City Council approved entering lease negotiations with a private developer on Monday to turn the city-owned Harley Clarke...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security arrested an individual in Evanston on Sept. 11, 2025.

Evanston committee OKs grants for Main Street business facades

October 16, 2024 at 10:21 a.m.

Ahead of Evanston’s November budget process, the city’s Economic Development Committee approved using tax increment financing funds for businesses to receive up to $5,000 to improve their outer appearances. Most...

Evanston Skokie District 65 to hire consultant to assist in school closings, teacher layoffs

October 15, 2024 at 5:26 p.m.

The Board of Education for Evanston/Skokie School District 65 announced in September it would hire a consultant to assist the district in school closures, teacher layoffs, and other expense cuts...

A Skokie wedding venue and a caterer reached a $2.3 million settlement after a wedding guest suffered permanent injuries, according to her attorneys, by a collapsing chuppah at the wedding venue. (Pioneer Press file photo)

After chuppah falls on, injures groom’s mom during wedding in Skokie, defendants pay $2.3 million

October 15, 2024 at 10:28 a.m.

An October 2021 wedding in Skokie turned tragic when a support beam from a chuppah collapsed on the groom’s mother, permanently causing ear and spine damage, according to a lawsuit...

A rendering of the proposed First Watch and Cava restaurants that are part of a development proposal for 5440 Touhy Avenue, Skokie. (Village of Skokie)

Skokie OKs two restaurants, bank after developer nixes 494-unit apartment complex

October 14, 2024 at 5:25 p.m.

A longtime business executive and Republican fundraiser and his son had their plans for a 494-unit apartment complex across from Skokie Village Crossing on Touhy Avenue approved by the Skokie...

Univail-Rodamco-Westfield is planning a redevelopment at Old Orchard. (Unibail-Rodamco-Westfeld)

Skokie OKs 425 luxury apartments at Old Orchard mall

October 14, 2024 at 2:54 p.m.

The Skokie village board gave its first reading approval for developers to build hundreds of luxury apartments across three buildings at the upscale shopping mall Westfield Old Orchard at its...

Mai Abosen, who is originally from Egypt, looks at her certificate of naturalization after she became a U.S. citizen, along with 136 people from 41 countries, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe on Oct. 11, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘A dream come true:’ 136 become U.S. citizens at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe

October 15, 2024 at 11:04 a.m.

More than 100 petitioners from 41 countries officially became U.S. citizens when they took their oath of allegiance at a naturalization ceremony held at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe...

Niles West puts football coach on leave; athletes make emotional appeal for his return

October 11, 2024 at 6:59 a.m.

A large group of Niles West High School football team players and their parents asked Niles Township High School District 219 Board of Education members to quickly reinstate head football...

All Stories