Brian L. Cox

Care packages provided by the Service and Learning Together program include water, non-perishable food items, personal hygiene products, first aid kits, winter clothing, baby items, and children's comfort items such as books/games/stuffed animals. A note of welcome and encouragement in Spanish is attached to each package. Photo provided by SaLT.
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North Shore residents providing care packages to displaced migrants

March 4, 2024 at 3:11 p.m.

What started as a way to help people in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has transitioned into a program to assist the hundreds of migrants arriving from the...

The entrance to Upside Foods' cultivation facility in Emeryville, California. The company announced Thursday, Sept. 14, it will lease a 187,000-square-feet production facility at the former Allstate headquarters site in Glenview, becoming the first tenant announced for the new logistics campus.

California company is pausing on plans for a food production facility in Glenview

March 4, 2024 at 3:12 p.m.

Much ballyhooed plans to build a state of the art $141 million meat processing production facility at the vacant Allstate Campus in Glenview have been put on hold, officials said....

The owners of the Glenview House are reviewing new restaurant opportunities for the shuttered eatery as the village continues to focus on downtown redevelopment (Brian L. Cox/Pioneer Press.)

Glenview seeing a number of restaurants and other businesses flock to village’s downtown

February 28, 2024 at 1:52 p.m.

Restaurants and other businesses are flocking to downtown Glenview in the wake of COVID allowing the village to move closer to its goal of being a prime destination for diners...

Glenview magician Randy Bernstein (above) recently got $20,000 from Cook County to help fund his magician business, Magic By Randy Inc., in a post COVID economy. “I’m sure there’s many other companies that were just as impacted by it who didn’t get this grant so for me it’s very exciting,” he said. “I am truly appreciative of it.”
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Glenview entrepreneur at Cook County grant as a magical experience for his business

February 22, 2024 at 4:21 p.m.

Glenview magician Randy Bernstein couldn’t make COVID-18 disappear but he is one of dozens of businesses in the north suburb that recently learned they got as much as $20,000 in...

Kenilworth insurance agency owner federally charged in scam

February 21, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

The owner of a Kenilworth insurance agency has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for swindling more than $1 million from friends, family members and others by collecting...

Glenview man sentenced to federal prison for threatening woman and her fiance by mail

February 12, 2024 at 5:47 p.m.

A Glenview man has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for threatening a woman he met in university and her fiancé including sending them rat poison by the...

Roxie Glasco a retired social worker, is one of many volunteers at the Village Treasure House in Northbrook. Each year since 1997 the resale store has donated its annual profits to area charitable organizations. The store recently gave away $305,000 in 2023 profits. (Brian L. Cox/Pioneer Press)

Village Treasure House in Northbrook is a crossroad where resale and charitable causes meet

February 12, 2024 at 5:35 p.m.

It takes the sale of more than 1,900 pieces of artwork, 700 lamps, 1,500 pieces of furniture, countless glasses and other household items to raise more than $300,000 for charity...

The 283 solar panels erected on the roof of Glenview’s Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church last Fall are expected to save the church thousands of dollars each year in energy savings.
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Village of Glenview presents 2024’s sustainability award to five recipients

February 5, 2024 at 2:02 p.m.

There isn’t a “Patron Saint of Solar Panels” but perhaps there should be after a priest blessed the 283 new solar panels on the roof at Saints Peter and Paul...

Winnetka police urging residents to use alternative forms of payment as multiple reports come in of check washing.

Winnetka police warn residents of check washing surge

February 5, 2024 at 1:24 p.m.

Winnetka police are advising residents to take extra caution after dozens of checks were stolen from the mail in the north suburb over the last few months, dollar amounts and...

More than a dozen checks have been stolen from mailboxes outside the Post Office in the 1400 block of Patriot Ave. in Glenview in the last few months. Dollar amounts and names on the checks were changed in what authorities said is a "check washing scheme." In the most recent case reported on Jan. 20 more than $17,000 was stolen.

U.S. Postal Service officials warn Glenvew residents after more than a dozen check washing cases in recent months

January 26, 2024 at 10:28 p.m.

Just because the check's in the mail that doesn't mean it will get there. In fact, the United States Postal Service Inspector (USPSI) is advising Glenview residents to monitor their...

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