Highland Park News

A story my father likes to tell: It's the 60s, during his years in college in Chicago, and he's with his parents in Highland Park, Illinois for a High Holiday service at Congregation Solel .

When Deerfield's Merilee Papale was asked to define the main ingredient behind her business success she had a one word answer.

It felt like being back in high school -- "Can you come pick me up?" That was the opening line of a phone call home to my wife earlier this week, when I bizarrely ended up stranded in the wilds of downtown Evanston, Illinois.

The information below is a press release from the City of Highland Park. The City's contractor F.E. Moran Fire Protection has completedA installation and testing of the new fire protection system throughout the Port Clinton parkingA garage.

The Evanston Police Department and University Police issued a total of 31 citations on and around the Northwestern campus during this year's Three citations were issued for public urination, three for possession of cannabis, two for possession of drug paraphernalia and six for violating city codes about age restrictions and identification cards.

Area artists love the idea of Highland Park's Art Walk, which isn't surprising, considering that the city's annual window-shopping cultural perambulation is devoted exclusively to Illinois painters, sculptors, photographers and the like.

Numerous agencies serving children, teens and young adults on the affluent North Shore will soon enter their second year of little or no funding from United Way, due to changes in how the recipient agencies are chosen.

Listen up art aficionados, from Hyde Park to Woodstock and dozens of places in between, paintings, photos, ceramics and fiber art are taking over suburban downtown streets and Chicago neighborhoods.

Current City Councilman Daniel Kaufman will run to retain his council seat in next April's election, according to a statement released Monday night.

WINNETKA, Ill. - Life jackets may have saved the lives of two 14-year-old girls when they were thrown from a jet ski and spent more than an hour floating in Lake Michigan Monday near north suburban Winnetka.

Growing from a small race in 2007, the Grand Prix has grown into a full-scale professional contest featuring riders from all over the country.

Oak Park has been known for its close proximity to Chicago, IL and ofcoarse home to the great architecture Frank Lloyd Wright.

In one of Patch's closest Readers' Choice yet, Moderno inched out M Restaurant for a win for Best Outdoor Seating in Highland Park .

Lake County residents with pending cases in small claims court will be offered the chance to settle through a new mediation program, officials announced.

A national ranking confirms what many Glenbrook North and South students already know: both are challenging schools.

The following information comes from a press release from the City of Highland Park.

Reel Life mini-review: 'Hysteria' If Walt Disney had actually created a movie about the invention of the electric vibrator, it would look exactly like Tanya Wexler's salubriously filtered period comedy "Hysteria." The characters come in easy-to-digest types who engage in an adults-only subject softened to sanitized proportions by a sense of ... (more)

Two plans for capital improvements were presented to the Township High School District 113 Board of Education Monday to meet the long term needs of Highland Park and Deerfield High Schools .

Joy Gayter had lived in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff for 24 years before a divorce forced her to sell the family home at a loss.

"Worldwide sold its shrimp under the brand names 'Shrimp King,' 'Texas Supreme,' 'Black Diamond' and 'Campeche Queen.'" Jim Letten, U.S. attorney An Independence shrimp processing plant has been charged with mislabeling more than $100,000 worth of Mexican-caught shrimp as U.S. products, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Tuesday.