Glenview News

I took this photo during My lunchbreak one morning, in early November of 2009. Seen here parked on a railroad siding east of adjacent Lehigh Avenue, is a Metra maintenance of way department Burro crane with a boom tender car.

An 84-year-old Glenview woman suffered only minor injuries after the back of her car was struck by a train in Glenview just after noon today while she was stuck in a traffic jam on Chestnut and Lehigh Avenues.

Under a full autumn moon, freight car trains lay splayed and crushed early Sunday night on both sides of Shermer Road in Northbrook near the Glenview border.

All but one Glenview and Northbrook public elementary school met rising No Child Left Behind achievement targets last school year.

The Tri-State Tollway reopened, state police officials said, after being shut down for about an hour Tuesday morning after a construction crane knocked down a string of power lines across the major roadway near West Lake Avenue.

Public libraries in Northbrook and Glenview are overcharging nonresidents living in unincorporated areas of those villages for library cards and services, said the Northfield Township Assessor.

When Glenview dignitaries and residents remember America's and Glenview's veterans at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Veterans Memorial, something will be missing.

CHICAGO - As the cleanup from Sunday's train derailment on the border of Northbrook and Glenview continues, one official said Monday the incident could have been much worse had cars carrying hazardous materials been involved.

Brian60093 told me that his buddy tipped him off on the train derailment. He arrived on the scene and took photos.

Share + Nov 2, 2009 5:19 am US/Central NORTHBROOK, Ill. The commute is getting off to a bad start for commuters in Northbrook and Glenview Monday, where train cars are overturned and in some cases, on the road from a weekend derailment.

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Every child will take home the gold -- as a shiny turkey trophy -- at the 3rd annual "Turkey Trot" free family festival set for 9:30 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Nov.

A task force charged with recommending ways to better control flooding in Glenview has identified $7 million worth of projects that can be accomplished quickly.

The Glenview Village Board has endorsed a second property tax break for D.R.L. Enterprises, a national distributor of high end novelty tobacco and smoking products, so that it will expand its facility in Glenview's North Shore Corporate Park.

Matty's Wayside Inn was one of the oldest restaurants still operating in Glenview when it virtually burned down Wednesday morning.

Glenview trustees are scheduled to decide Nov. 3 whether to impose a local 2-cent tax on motor fuel purchases, expected to raise $290,000 annually that they'd dedicate solely to roadway improvement projects.

Both Glenview and Northfield Township have registered opposition to a plan to replace a single-family house on the corner of Central and Glenshire roads in unincorporated Cook County with four townhouses.

Fighting with your former employer in court can be a long, expensive slog, and in the case of Kathy Lawlor, neither side has come out satisfied.

Seven candidates - five Republicans and two Democrats - running for the 10th Congressional District will vie to capture the top spot on the Feb.

An extra-alarm fire destroyed Matty's Wayside Inn at 1727 N. Waukegan Rd. in Glenview early Wednesday morning.