Kathy Routliffe

Kenilworth Village Manager Patrick Brennan warned listeners of the looming debt burden caused by municipal pension obligations.

Winnetka, Kenilworth and Northfield village presidents, managers talk pension costs, economic development and green initiatives

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Members of the Winnetka-Northfield-Kenilworth League of Women Voters got the same end-of-year message from all three villages’ officials Thursday – that economic initiatives, infrastructure planning and the North Shore constant...

New Trier senior Sam Pomerantz keeps a photo of the letter sent by 90-year-old Teruo Shimizu to students who wrote him letters to accompany the repatriated Japanese flag.

In 1944, a Japanese soldier carried a flag into battle. Decades later, New Trier students returned it to his brother.

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

In 1944, 21-year-old Tokichi Shimizu, a Japanese soldier stationed on the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, headed into battle. The young man carried with him a Japanese flag from...

Winnetka Council OKs more than $400,000 in electrical plant turbine work

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

When one of the turbines at Winnetka’s electrical plant gets disassembled next spring for a thorough inspection, village staff will be on hand to learn from a contractor how it’s...

Winnetka man dies in single-car crash in Skokie

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

A 57-year-old Winnetka man was killed Monday when his car crashed on Golf Road in Skokie, police said. Steven Kocour, 57, of the 500 block of Hill Terrace in Winnetka,...

Young historians probe Wilmette’s old days with their artifact collection

May 10, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

As Beckett Anderson of Wilmette tells it, the adventure began with a fateful footstep at Langdon Park beach. “When we found the first 10 bricks it was because I stomped...

Winnetka tax levy flat, but service fees set to rise in 2019

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Winnetka’s proposed $79.58 million 2019 budget includes more than $19 million in major capital projects, ranging from $7.6 million to improve stormwater infrastructure and $588,000 for sanitary sewer work, to...

Women dance around the Hanukiah, also know as a Hanukah menorah, at Winnetka's Station Park.

Winnetka, Wilmette communities welcome Hanukkah with menorah lighting

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

More than three dozen people defied the elements Sunday at Winnetka’s Station Park, to welcome Hanukkah with the lighting of the first menorah candle. “We were surprised at how many...

Molly Cinnamon directs children from St. Faith, Hope and Charity singing Christmas carols.

Winnetka lights up for the holidays with annual tree lighting, market

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

An estimated 500 people were on hand Friday to applaud Village President Chris Rintz when he threw the lever and Station Park in downtown Winnetka lit up with hundreds of...

Brittany Sievers prepares to pay Kaleb McCarthy (left) and Connor Rooney at the New Trier High School Tri-ship Club tree sale.

New Trier Tri-ship members tree sales to raise more than $25,000

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Brittany Sievers had no intention of buying a Christmas tree when she dropped by the New Trier High School Tri-ship Club tree sale Thursday. She’d grown up with an artificial...

Winnetka wants to gauge interest in this village property at 93 Green Bay Road, the site of a former gas station at Green Bay and Winnetka roads.

Winnetka eyes potential new uses for former Green Bay Road garage property

May 10, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Winnetka officials will soon put out feelers in the commercial real estate market to gauge interest in a village-owned Green Bay Road property that could be seen as a southern...

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