Elmwood Park News

Earlier I posted some data on Proviso Township High Schools . Proviso ranked 26th of 27 districts in suburban Cook County in the percent of students who meet or exceed standards on the Prairie State Achievement Exam.

Illinois Association of Mortgage Professionals www.iamp.biz Jeri Lynn Fox is President of the Illinois Association of Mortgage Professionals.

Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri was elected to the Board in 1994 and is currently serving his fourth term.

EPHS scores are 'highest we've ever had' November 3, 2009 By DEBORAH BAYLISS dbayliss@pioneerlocal.com The 2009 Illinois school report cards are out and Elmwood Park High School ACT and Prairie State Achievement Exam scores are the highest in the school's history school officials said.

All around, hidden from those not in the know, are little treasures just waiting for discovery.

A joint team of 10 officers apprehended eight women on Friday, Oct. 23 during a country-wide prostitution sting.

Elmwood Park and River Grove officials are warning people not to be fooled by telephone scams claiming to raise funds for the fire departments.

A Melrose Park man who was drunk when he led police on a high speed chase that ended in the death of a Norridge man is sentenced to ten years in prison.

Halloween came early for some Elmwood Park seniors. Both the Seniors Club and the exercise group held parties last week.

Welcome to my rail fan page! Here you'll find information and pictures of railroad related items from the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and Indiana.

The audience was part of the program for the Independent Stars Playhouse presentation of "Contempt of Court." "The show was a courtroom comedy where the audience acted as witnesses, defendants, plaintiffs and the jury," said Dominic Clemente, artistic director.

Country comes to the city when the Elmwood Park Community Chorus next performs. Selections will run the gamut from Patsy Cline to Carrie Underwood, Hank Williams to Rascall Flatts at the free concert that begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.

Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri said Thursday he expects the board to vote again to repeal Board President Todd Stroger's 1 percent sales tax now that the veto override requirement has been reduced from 14 to 11.

No longer will the chirping of crickets play second fiddle to the idling of buses near the Oak Park Country Club in Elmwood Park.

A peculiar assortment of spine-tingling horror stories, eerie history and inexplicable supernatural events await Elmwood Park teens.

An Italian beef is a sandwich of thinly sliced seasoned roast beef, dripping with meat juices, on a dense Italian roll.

When asked by Trustee Carmen Forte how long the proposed project to install seven storm water retention boxes would last, Christopher Burke, president of Christopher B. Burke Engineering of Rosemont, the village's engineering firm, responded, "A good part of the construction season." Elmwood Park residents packed the Village Hall board room Sept.

Coordinators of Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401's anti-bullying and drug prevention programs are reaching out for community support to keep the Operation Snowball and Snowflake programs going.

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video . In the last five years, Cook County has gotten nearly $43 million from the U.S. Homeland Security Department for Project Shield, a program that's supposed to equip all 128 suburbs countywide with state-of-the-art video cameras.

No one was in custody early Monday in the bludgeoning death of a man found with two gashes on his head early Sunday after closing up a quiet Lincoln Square neighborhood bar he managed.