Park Ridge News

Share + Nov 7, 2009 9:15 pm US/Central Reporting Jim Williams PARK RIDGE, Ill. What do you do when a holiday tradition, cherished for generations, is stopped cold because of the bad economy? In one Chicago area community, adults and children alike rolled up their sleeves, grabbed a few ladders and went to work.

A Skokie teenager serving a prison sentence on drug charges robbed a Park Ridge bank last year while dressed in women's clothing, authorities suspect.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 10:39 am US/Central PARK RIDGE, Ill. Christmas was looking very iffy for 7-year-old Ben Ryles and the other children of Park Ridge.

After stints in both public accounting as an audit manager and in industry as a software consultant to CPA firms, Alexander Vuchnich was driven to start his own practice because of what he described as the continued resistance of traditional firms to change.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 10:17 pm US/Central DEERFIELD, lll. A Colorado man apparently drowned while cleaning a pond Tuesday afternoon outside a north suburban company.

Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri was elected to the Board in 1994 and is currently serving his fourth term.

Two more Park Ridge residents fell victim to a scammer who claims to be a neighbor locked out of his home.

The Illinois Senate moved to undercut the powers of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger by voting to lower the threshold for county commissioners to override his veto.

Five hundred seventy five guests attended the Park Ridge-based Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care Angels Ball on Saturday, Oct.

The Cook County Medical Examinier's office ruled that the death of a Skokie man working in Park Ridge was accidental.

A northwest suburban man tracked down by a police dog and charged with a brutal knife attack on his 86-year-old grandmother was ordered held on $2 million bond Friday.

A serial rapist was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after he was convicted of attacking a woman in 2007 in a wooded area near Park Ridge.

Over 250 people from 12 area churches expected to take part in the annual Niles/Park Ridge CROP Hunger Walk last Sunday, Oct.

A Chicago man arrested in connection with a fatal car crash that took the lives of two of his passengers in Park Ridge last week was scheduled to appear in Cook County Circuit Court this week for a preliminary hearing.

A Skokie man died Tuesday after an accident with sewer equipment in Park Ridge. Joseph Patyk, 32, of 821 Lawndale Ave.

Secretary of State Jesse White will mark national Teen Driver Safety Week by presenting an award to a Chicago area high school.

Suburban police don't know what impact closing expressways in Chicago will have during Wednesday and Thursday commutes, but they're monitoring potential traffic jams on suburban streets.

Years ago, suburban schools queued up for state funding to build more classrooms.

When Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Edgar Muenzer established the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra in his hometown in 1994, he never dreamed it would become such a vital, thriving institution.

" Wanda Wilson, CRNA, PhD, MSN, has been selected as the seventh executive director of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists .