Joshua Irvine

Joshua Irvine is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.

Space 519, a designer clothing boutique in Wilmette's revitalized Plaza del Lago shopping center, opened in August 2025, and many more high-end boutiques and shops are due to open in the spring. Space 519 contains a coffee bar, daytime lunchroom and evening cocktail space. (Joshua Irvine/for Pioneer Press)

At Wilmette’s revitalized Plaza del Lago, boutique Space 519 says holiday sales robust

January 9, 2026 at 4:29 p.m.

At Wilmette's revitalized Plaza del Lago, boutique Space 519 features women's designer clothing. It says holiday sales were robust.

New Trier High School. (Eric P. Davis/Pioneer Press)

New Trier considers adding courses, teaching internships, personal trainer certification

November 22, 2025 at 5:08 a.m.

New Trier High School Board considers adding courses, teaching internships, and a personal trainer certification.

Glenbrook South High School earned a "commendable" rating in this year's Illinois Report Card, while Glenbrook North earned "exemplary." (Pioneer Press)

Glenbrook North High School rates ‘exemplary,’ Glenbrook South ‘commendable’

November 12, 2025 at 3:27 p.m.

On the 2024-25 Illinois Report Card, Glenbrook North High School rated 'exemplary,' and Glenbrook South 'commendable.'

An ICE agent confronts Caryn Fliegler, a Northfield Township elected official, in a screenshot from a video taken by Fliegler on Nov. 5, when several agents with rifles blocked the parking lot of the Salem Walk apartments in unincorporated Northbrook. Agents later tried to break down a door. (Caryn Fliegler)

ICE agents in Northbrook point rifles at bystanders and try to break down door

November 11, 2025 at 4:05 p.m.

ICE agents in Northbrook pointed rifles at bystanders and tried to break down doors, then arrested a Salem Walk apartments resident.

A resident in unincorporated Northbrook took this photo of the unmarked vehicles that surrounded a black Acura on Cottonwood Road around 7:55 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, as children waited nearby for a school bus. A masked agent appears to be leaning over the window of the (unseen) Acura, possibly speaking to its driver. The masked agents took the driver away in one of their vehicles. (Tea Shehedeh)

Armed ICE agents sped down Northbrook street and grabbed man as schoolkids watched

November 5, 2025 at 10:02 a.m.

Armed, masked federal immigration agents detained one man and chased another through a residential neighborhood in unincorporated Northbrook on Monday, according to witnesses.

Zoe Dillon, right, and Claire Chapman, students at New Trier High School in Winnetka, said the school has limited their ability to volunteer in Chicago with immigrants and refugees. They said they understand the school is concerned for their safety in the face of federal immigration agents detaining people, but expressed concern for the immigrants with whom they were developing relationships. (Tess Miller)

Students say New Trier pausing their volunteerism with immigrants due to ICE

November 4, 2025 at 3:21 p.m.

Students say Winnetka's New Trier High School is pausing them from volunteering with immigrants due to ICE, fears for their safety.

Workers transport a 68-foot Norway spruce on its way to being Chicago's Millennium Park Christmas tree, Nov. 3, 2025, from the front yard of the Mason family in Glenview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Chicago’s 2025 Christmas tree for Millennium Park hails from Glenview family’s front yard

November 4, 2025 at 10:32 a.m.

Chicago's 2025 Christmas tree, a 68-foot spruce, was cut down from the Glenview front yard of the Mason family on Nov. 3.

Winnetka's village hall. (Karen Ann Cullotta/Chicago Tribune)

Developers seek to build four-story condo building on Winnetka’s Green Bay Road

October 29, 2025 at 7:38 a.m.

Developers want to build a four-story condo building in downtown Winnetka, but trustees worried about parking and local character.

Teresa Ray and Mark Rouse pose for a photo behind the counter of Runners High 'n Tri in Arlington Heights on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Joshua Irvine/ for the Pioneer Press)

Running shoe retailer closes out a marathon 35 years in Arlington Heights

October 28, 2025 at 11:06 a.m.

After 35 years and hundreds of thousands of miles, the race is run for a local running shoe retailer in the northwest suburbs.

New Trier HS officials planning to authorize another $15 million in bonds for infrastructure upgrades

October 21, 2025 at 12:46 p.m.

New Trier High School is moving forward with plans to issue $15 million in bonds to pay for infrastructure upgrades at its Winnetka and Northfield campuses.

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