Lincolnwood News

A Newsweek and the Washington Post have released their rankings of high schools, and provide some vindication for Maine East High School in Park Ridge and Niles West High School in Skokie, which were ignored when U.S. News & World report released its ratings of best high schools in Illinois earlier this month.

WHAT: Jeff Lanza, an FBI Special Agent for over 20 years, will be speaking on two separate occasions in Chicago this week to discuss innovations in fraud and identity theft, and how individuals and businesses can defend themselves from the newest, most invasive threats.

Styx originated in Chicago, and grew to become one of rock-n-roll's most famous band.

A Deerfield builder was accused of consumer fraud in a civil lawsuit filed Monday by Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez for "bilking a senior citizen couple," according to a news release from the State's Attorney's Office.

Lincolnwood's Purple Hotel, empty since 2007, was sold at auction Friday to buyers who want to preserve the structure, which boasts a past as colorful as its unusual bricks.