Luminaries provided by Mary, Seat of Wisdom Boy Scout Troop 3 will light the way between the Uptown and South Park neighborhoods of Park Ridge during Friday's Winterfest celebration.

While her bruised and beaten daughter, Melanie, lay dying in a hospital, Mila Petrov blamed the child's 10-year-old sister for her injuries, authorities allege.

A man was killed and another person was injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning near north suburban Morton Grove.

It's hard to tell what's really keeping Park Ridgers up at night these days - that new O'Hare runway whose flight patterns are dogging the northwest suburb or the naivete of the folks out there who had a different idea about how that runway would be used.

Park Ridge celebrates Christmas in a big way, with two live classical musical programs set for December at the Pickwick Theater, the city's 1,450 seat Art Deco movie palace.

A partially smoked cigarette has helped Park Ridge police identify a suspect in the burglary last year of an Uptown business.

A proposal that would allow 80-foot billboards to be constructed along Interstate-294 in Park Ridge was unanimously rejected Nov.

Two high school students were charged with battery in separate recent incidents in Park Ridge.

The Tuesday auction for the building that houses Chase Bank and American Eagle in Uptown Park Ridge was cancelled after the owner accepted an offer.

Several Park Ridge residents will appear in the Footlighters theater group's presentation of "Scrooge, the Musical." Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec.

A Park Ridge woman has filed a lawsuit after her neighbor's pit bull attacked her so viciously it took two people and a severed ponytail to finally get the beast named Wrigley off of her.

To form a more perfect democracy [and a more popular Democratic Party], Quinn calls a Saturday Presser - but it was not about Stroger, or Stroger's tax.

"People on the Move" appears in every edition of The Business Ledger. Information on area business people who have been hired, promoted, honored, elected or otherwise recognized should be sent to Jeremy Stoltz, Editor, The Business Ledger, 1260 Iroquois Ave., Suite 200, Naperville, Ill.

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.

The home of a police boss possibly third in line to Supt. Jody Weis was burglarized Monday on the Far Northwest Side and police believe it may be linked to a pattern in nearby Niles or Park Ridge.

Park Ridge police detectives have arrested a woman they suspect sold heroin to a person last week on a residential Park Ridge city street.

Teens find small town life dull until Ren arrives in "Footloose," at Devonshire Playhouse Youth Theatre, 4400 Greenwood, Skokie, 7 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, through Nov.

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.