Pond restoration in Highland Park gets state grant
The Park District of Highland Park is getting some financial help for the conversion of the former Highland Park Country Club golf course into 100 acres of nature preserve and...
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Highland Park agrees to camera enforcement for people who pass school buses illegally
Drivers who fail to stop for a school bus dropping off or picking up students in North Shore School District 112 will soon be held accountable even if no police...
District 113 debates completing Highland Park High School theater space
Township High School District 113 may build out the interior of a small theater space at Highland Park High School next summer if bids for the possible $1 million project...
District 112 may drop kindergarten tuition in 2020
North Shore School District 112 may eliminate its $2,250 tuition charge for full-day kindergarten starting with the 2020-21 school year. Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld said his cabinet will recommend dropping the...
District 112 explains use of isolated time outs, restraints after investigation prompts emergency action
A special education administrator in North Shore School District 112 said Friday that any use of isolated time-out rooms and physical restraints in the school district has complied with Illinois...
Some District 112 teachers to receive pay raises topping 22 percent by 2023
Many teachers in North Shore School District 112 will see their pay rise 22.5 percent over the next five years under a hard-fought contract that does not link raises to...
Sunset Valley Golf Club to turn a profit, despite wet-weather year
Despite unseasonable snow and a wet spring, summer and fall, the Park District of Highland Park expects its Sunset Valley Golf Club will turn a profit during its first full...
Highland Park says it won’t pay all of cost for Park Avenue barge-breakwater replacement
Some of the boaters who launch from Park Avenue beach in Highland Park said they're unhappy with a park district decision not to replace a deteriorating barge-breakwater at taxpayer expense...
District 112 eyes $11 million renovation of Red Oak
When North Shore School District 112 needed to move students from Northwood Junior High for a school reconstruction, Elm Place Middle School was large enough to serve all of Northwood's...
Time capsule offers a snapshot for Highland Parkers of the future
An incandescent light bulb, a drinking straw and a pair of Sherwood Elementary School gym shorts are among the dozens of items that will be locked inside a bank vault...