Lisa Cisneros

Union Ridge Elementary 6th-grader Anastasiia Luzinska launches a paper airplane as part of an experiment in her science class at the school Monday morning, April 26, 2021. Union Ridge is currently operating under a shortened schedule, but plans to return to full-time, in-person, schooling, starting in mid-May. (Brian O'Mahoney/Pioneer Press)

Norridge, Harwood Heights schools welcoming students for increased in-person hours

April 27, 2021 at 4:24 a.m.

More students are starting to return in-person to Norridge and Harwood Heights schools as COVID-19 vaccines have become more widely available. All school districts in both towns have offered students...

Norridge mayor candidates Benigno, Tannhauser talk issues

March 9, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

The April 6 election will decide the next mayor of Norridge. Daniel Tannhauser, who was appointed as village president in July 2019, is being challenged by Illinois Deputy Secretary of...

Two Norridge independent candidates knocked off ballot decide not to pursue further appeals

March 3, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

Two of three independent candidates seeking seats on the Norridge Village Board of Trustees decided Monday not to appeal a Cook County judge's Feb. 23 decision that will keep their...

Norridge trustee candidates Budzik, Avino, Ronstadt win primary election in unofficial results

February 24, 2021 at 7:06 p.m.

Three candidates who have prior experience serving the village of Norridge won a primary election Tuesday, Feb. 23, according to unofficial results from the Cook County Clerk's office. The victory...

Amanda Freeman sits in the lobby of the Super 8 motel, 2080 N. Mannheim Road, Northlake. Freeman, who lived at the O'Hare Kitchenette Motel for five years, transferred to the Super 8 after a Feb. 8 fire made the motel uninhabitable. She is worried she may have to move into a shelter soon.

After motel fire, residents in Northlake scramble to find places to live

February 23, 2021 at 5:38 a.m.

After a fire ravaged the O'Hare Kitchenette Motel about two weeks ago, former residents who were displaced are trying to sort out where to go as their disaster relief runs...

Meet the candidates for Norridge trustee in the Feb. 23 primary

February 16, 2021 at 5:03 a.m.

The Village of Norridge will hold a primary election Feb. 23 to determine which three village trustee candidates, out of four, will be eligible to run on the Norridge Improvement...

Harwood Heights native, former NFL player Dan Santucci to lead St. Patrick High School

February 9, 2021 at 1:13 p.m.

Twenty years after Dan Santucci walked the halls of St. Patrick High School as a student and star athlete, he's back. But this time, the Harwood Heights native and former...

Vivian Mitchel of Morton Grove, who has been named to the Illinois Senior Hall of Fame, visits the North Shore Senior Center, where she worked as the Program Manager of Travel and Enrichment for 18 years, and chats with Executive Director Tish Rudnicki.

Illinois Senior Hall of Fame honoree, from Morton Grove, uses ‘personal touch’ to engage seniors

December 9, 2020 at 1:03 a.m.

Around age 40, Vivian Mitchel started a career working with seniors that blossomed in the 44 years that followed. In those decades, she got creative in planning field trips for...

Nate Barksdale, a speaker at the Park Ridge Black Lives Matter peaceful protest June 27, addresses a crowd of nearly 200 people sitting on the grassy area east of the Park Ridge Library.

Park Ridge rally speakers call for racial justice, equal opportunity, end to oppression

June 30, 2020 at 7:19 p.m.

About 175 people gathered on the front lawn of the Park Ridge Public Library Saturday afternoon for speeches and sign-up tables in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and...

Village President Cathy Adduci and village trustees participated in a Black Lives Matter March on Washington Boulevard, Sunday, June 14, 2020, in River Forest.

River Forest leaders join neighboring towns in ‘March on Washington Boulevard’ to support racial justice

June 15, 2020 at 12:43 p.m.

The River Forest village president, trustees and many residents joined in support for African-Americans and racial justice Sunday when they walked in the Black Lives Matter March on Washington Boulevard....

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