U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-3rd) during her September 2025 town hall in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood (Photo by Igor Studenkov/Journal & Topics Reporter) Incumbent U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-3rd ...

"No Kings" protest in downtown Chicago last June. Residents from Des Plaines, Mount Prospect and possibly other nearby communities will gather in downtown Des Plaines tomorrow (Friday) to participate ...

Niles Free Bus service could resume by the end of next month at the latest, Mayor George Alpogianis said today (Thursday), but if all goes as planned and service resumes, there would be some changes.

Christmas trees dragged onto the ice on Lake Glenview to later sink and become fish habitat. (Anna Ables/Glenview Park Dist.) The Glenview Park District and the village of Glenview have launched a ...

Steve Coogan in "The Penguin Lessons", one of the year's most underappreciated films. Every year that goes by, it gets more difficult, and arbitrary, to sort through the plethora of films I see to ...

Artist's rendering of new Costco Business Center up for discussion by city council members. A major step in the development of a Costco Business Center on the far south side of Des Plaines across from ...

A totalled blue Toyota Camry after it struck a utility pole on Touhy Avenue near Milwaukee in the predawn hours of New Year's Day. (Niles Fire Dept. photo) Westbound Touhy Avenue was closed for more ...

Des Plaines’ decades-long search for the holy grail of redevelopment ramped up in 2025 with several multi-million dollar projects having kicked off or are close to taking shape as we enter a new year.

Residents on both sides of Wolf Road north of Central might be popping champagne bottles for a different reason next week as a yearslong battle over odors from an animal feed plant appears at an end.

A neon sign that graces the foyer of Brick & Mortar, a co-working space established in Uptown Park Ridge. Park Ridge alderpersons were sharply divided on whether to relax the city’s ban on electronic ...

The wailing sounds of emergency vehicle sirens followed by two ear-splitting toots from an arriving Metra locomotive signaled the return of Operation North Pole in downtown Des Plaines Saturday ...

Aerial view of a FedEx ground distribution facility in Niles. (Photo submitted) Two investment firms with ties to Blackstone Real Estate Advisors have purchased a massive FedEx Ground distribution ...