Anna Kim

Workers from the Cook County Clerk's office sort suburban Cook County mail ballots in a processing room in the Pedway area of 69 West Washington Street in Chicago on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. The village of Franklin Park has already submitted three referendum questions for the next election on April 6, 2021.

Franklin Park plans advisory referendum questions for April

November 24, 2020 at 8:16 p.m.

A few weeks after the November election, Franklin Park is already looking ahead to April's consolidated election. The village plans to ask residents if they think state and federal governments...

Elmwood Park students won't be returning to school buildings anytime soon, as school officials decided to delay their plans at least until late January.

Elmwood Park schools delay hybrid learning plans until at least late January

November 21, 2020 at 12:01 a.m.

Elmwood Park students won't be returning to school buildings anytime soon, as school officials decided to delay their plans at least until late January. School District 401 students began the...

AMITA Resurrection Medical Center, 7435 W. Talcott Ave. in Chicago.

Local hospitals getting surge of COVID-19 patients, restricting visitors: ‘There are no signs of a slowdown’

November 17, 2020 at 8:59 p.m.

Local hospitals such as Advocate Lutheran General in Park Ridge, NorthShore University Health System hospitals in Glenview, Skokie and Evanston, and Resurrection Medical Center near Norridge are shutting their doors...

29-year-old man struck by vehicle in Franklin Park: driver fled the scene, family convinced him to call police

November 18, 2020 at 7:36 p.m.

A 29-year-old man was struck by a car and injured Monday night in Franklin Park, according to police. A person believed to be the driver admitted to fleeing after hitting...

Norridge, Elmwood Park police charge man accused of carjacking 64-year-old woman

November 17, 2020 at 12:51 p.m.

A man accused of grabbing a woman and throwing her out of her car evaded police for a day, but was arrested and charged Tuesday after crashing the stolen vehicle,...

In this file photo from 2017, children gather for the Spring Bonnet Parade in front of the Elmwood Park Early Childhood Center. The village's Park and Recreation department is converting the Early Childhood Center building into a community recreation center with indoor bocce ball courts.

Bocce ball courts, golf simulators will transform early childhood center into rec center in Elmwood Park

November 16, 2020 at 4:43 a.m.

Now that Elmwood Park kindergarten classes have moved to elementary school buildings, the Early Childhood Center on Conti Parkway will be turning into a community recreation center, according to village...

A developer who planned to bring a luxury townhome development to a vacant church site in Elmwood Park will built single family homes instead, after the village of Elmwood Park considered input from neighbors opposed to the original project.

Vacant Elmwood Park church site to become single family homes after townhouse plan rejected

November 16, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.

A developer who planned to bring a luxury town home development to a vacant church site in Elmwood Park will build single family homes instead after the village of Elmwood...

With COVID-19 cases increasing in the region, Rush Oak Park Hospital announced it has readopted its 'no visitor' policy that was in place earlier this year.

Oak Park hospitals restrict visitors as COVID-19 cases increase; haven’t overloaded capacity yet

November 13, 2020 at 9:00 p.m.

Due to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases throughout the region, Rush Oak Park hospital has again adopted its no visitor policy that had been in place earlier this year,...

East Leyden High School in Franklin Park.

Leyden District 212 delays return to in-person learning due to rising COVID-19 cases

November 13, 2020 at 1:41 p.m.

Leyden High School District 212 again delayed its planned return to in-person learning, citing rising cases of COVID-19 in the area. Students in general education were tentatively scheduled to return...

Mail going through the Norridge post office and annex, pictured, and the Harwood Heights post office is delayed, misdirected or never arrives, residents and businesses say.

Norridge residents report mail delivery issues again, months after problems were thought to be solved

November 18, 2020 at 12:08 a.m.

Norridge residents are receiving one another's mail and going days without delivery, months after these same problems were thought to be solved in early March, according to Norridge officials. Residents...

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