RESIDENT TO FINISH TRUSTEE’S TERM
Willard "Bill" Bell has been named to finish the Maine Township trustee term of Earl Elliott, who resigned in December for personal reasons. Bell, who has lived in Park Ridge...
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VOTERS TO NARROW FIELD OF CANDIDATES
Voters in the city of Elgin and in Hanover Township will go to the polls a bit earlier than most of their suburban counterparts this year. Elgin's form of government...
RE-ELECTION BIDS FOR TOWNSHIP POSTS ARE ANNOUNCED
Palatine Township Supervisor David Regner, who served in the legislature from 1967 to 1981 as a state representative and then a state senator, has announced that he will seek a...
VILLAGE PRESIDENT TO SEEK A 2ND TERM IN APRIL RACE
Barrington Village President Ronald Hamelberg announced Tuesday that he will seek a second term in the April 1 election. Hamelberg, 60, cited as the major accomplishments of his first term...
VILLAGE PRESIDENT SEEKING A 5TH TERM
Sheila Hogan Schultz, who has been the village president of Wheeling since 1981, announced Monday that she will seek a fifth term. Recent accomplishments include bringing North Central commuter rail...
EDUCATOR SEEKS MAYOR’S OFFICE
Paul Jung, former superintendent in Des Plaines and La Grange public schools, announced Monday that he will run for mayor of Des Plaines. "I'd like to rebuild a sense of...
SLIPS OF TONGUE OFFER LEVITY IN CAMPAIGNS
It seems a witty comeback to charges that he's a right-wing extremist. "Here I am, stuck in the middle with you," Republican Al Salvi tells voters on the campaign trail,...
THE WHOLE WORLD WASN’T WATCHING
The Uniting Spirits drummed and chanted. Andrew Hoffman scrubbed grease off a statue. A woman put on a Hillary Clinton mask and strolled topless up Michigan Avenue. And a group...
ON THE STREETS
On Saturday afternoon, two days before the Democratic National Convention was to open in Chicago, police and protesters faced each other outside the infamous Hilton & Towers on Michigan Avenue....
DOWNTOWN BUILDINGS TO LEAVE ON NIGHT LIGHT
A beautiful Chicago skyline means nothing if you can't see it. And because that skyline is one of the city's main selling points, Chicago officials want to make sure that...