Elmwood Park News

The Independent Stars Playhouse has just the thing to inspire anyone in danger of losing the holiday spirit.

Guerin College Preparatory High School will host its second open house of the year starting at 6 p.m. with the last tour leaving 7 p.m. Dec.

Elmwood Park High School senior, Mike Rubino is the focus of attention lately as the featured artist on the high school's Web page.

You can get anything from a blunderbuss to a burp gun at this busy swap session.

Walking out of the Lake Theater at 2:20 a.m. Friday into a cool, quiet Oak Park and very dark night probably only enhanced the mood for the nearly 800 people who turned out to get a first look at the certain-to-be blockbuster "New Moon.' The follow-up to the 2008 mega-hit 'Twilight' is a love story in a world of vampires and werewolves.

Two local girls named 'Teen Queens' November 13, 2009 Alexandra Fosco of Elmwood Park was crowned Miss Illinois Pre-Teen Cover Girl Queen and Lynzi Misuraca of Melrose Park was crowned Miss Illinois Teen 2009/2010. Both girls competed for the National America Miss Illinois Pageant at the Pheasant Run Hotel in St.

Gobble up some fun at the West Suburban Special Recreation Association's second turkey shoot.

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after being hit by a vehicle in Franklin Park on the afternoon of Nov.

The expiration of the 7 percent cap is one reason property tax bills have increased.

Time is running out for Leyden Township residents wanting to appeal their 2009 property tax assessments, upon which the 2010 tax bills will be based.

You can check which nominating petitions have been challenged at the websites of the Illinois State Board of Elections and the Cook County Clerk .

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.