Glenview News

Firefighters and local residents gather in the new Station No. 7 garage during Saturday's fire department open house on Glenview Road.

Firefighters work to enter the damaged office building on Friday. Fire severely damaged a vacant office building in Executive Office Plaza in Park Ridge the evening of Friday, June 26.

On a bright sunny Saturday last weekend, local residents and visitors from around the area celebrated summer at Glenview's Summer Festival.

Village planners hope to clamp down on the permissible height of storage sheds, since becoming aware that Glenview regulations allow the sheds to be built as high as a house or detached garage.

The Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" rang true when it was played during Saturday's grand openinig of "Community Bark West," the six-acre dog park at Community Park West, 1001 Zenith Drive.

Northfield Township High School District 225 will contest a recent state appellate decision that the district's newsletters concerning the successful 2006 referendum are "electioneering communications" and seemingly subject to state election laws.

A Glenview teenager who pulled an 83-year-old woman from a car stuck on railroad tracks seconds before the car was hit by a train was one of 22 people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism today.

Howard Levinson, a Glenview man more comfortable skimming clouds than treading walkways, has become one of the newest members of the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame.

He was the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast," the relentless and possibly evil Javert in "Les Miserables" at Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire and now he's the rich and immoral investor, Von Hussler, in the hit musical "Mary Poppins" playing at Cadillac Palace Theater in Chicago.

In the 1970s, easing the pain and distress of someone with a terminal disease was not a top priority for the medical profession.

Seventeen vendors selling produce, baked goods, gourmet items, dog treats, flowers and crafts are lined up for this year's Glenview Farmers Market, which opens for the season Saturday.

After 10 days of testimony, a Cook County Circuit Court jury of seven men and five women began deliberating this afternoon whether Steven Zirko, a former cruise line piano player, murdered his former companion, Mary Lacey, and her mother, Margaret Ballog, in Glenview four and a half years ago.

Fire investigators suspect a faulty attic fan may have started a fire early Sunday in a two-story house on the 400 block of Maple Avenue.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "South Pacific" in 1949 yet audiences still connect to the multiple Tony-winning musical.

Though unemployment is not as serious an issue in Glenview, Northbrook and Deerfield as it is in other surrounding communities, such as Des Plaines, Bill Landwehr and Carolyn Cram thought something needed to be done about it.

Mary Lacey suffered 48 stab wounds, three bullets and repeated blunt force trauma before she died Dec.

During the summer months street festivals seem to be happening almost every weekend, but few in the Northern suburbs consistently draw as many people for as many years as the Glenview Summer Festival and Street Sale scheduled for Saturday June 27.

The Kohl Children's Museum in north suburban Glenview is presenting an outdoor fund-raising concert tonight featuring Ralph's World.

The Tribune Co. apparently is talking to one of the other finalists regarding the sale of the Chicago Cubs due to the slow pace of negotiations with Tom Ricketts.

Glenview customers of ComEd enjoyed fewer service interruptions in 2008 than in years past, according to the utility's annual performance report delivered to the Village Board Tuesday night.