Skokie News

A wall in the Room of Remembrance lists victims' first names only. The Skokie, Ill., museum explores the past and honors survivors.

Evanston police teamed up with school resource officers in the arrests of three juveniles who have been charged with defacement of the Evanston Ecology Center last month and may have been members of a "tagging crew" operating throughout the city.

Two men have been charged for a shooting in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood that left a woman critically injured early Thursday.

Confronted with expanding workloads and the potential for more layoffs, state workers in Skokie took to the streets this week to protest what they say has been an attack on public sector employees.

Images by: Norman Kind Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14.09 :: Centre East Theatre :: Skokie, Illinois Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14 :: Illinois Bruce Hornsby walked onstage carrying a stack of requests, waived to the audience, and began to play.

Village Trustees this week signed off on a new 24-hour gas station and mini-mart for the heart of the village's West Dempster Street corridor.

Skokie is back to its original plan of hosting four H1N1 vaccination clinics in December after recently announcing three had been canceled because of vaccine shortages.

Neo-Nazi protestors organized by the National Socialist Movement demonstrate near where the grand opening ceremonies were held for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center last April in Skokie, Ill.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 3:43 pm US/Central SKOKIE, Ill. 1 of 1 Mila Petrov, 31, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the beating death of her 5-year-old daughter, Melanie Beltran CBS A woman accused of beating her 5-year-old daughter to death in 2007 pleaded guilty to the charges Tuesday.

Former US President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.

Martin says that Mark Kirk is a a oeVirginia Democrat,a not an Illinois Republican.

Country music superstar Clint Back returns to the Chicago area with a show Saturday in the suburbs.

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.

Happy Foods near downtown Skokie closed its doors for the last time last week leaving some long-time shoppers searching for a new shopping regimen.

The 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass" was marked at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie Sunday.

Three Republicans will face off Feb. 2 to determine who challenges Democrat Daniel Biss for the 17th Illinois House seat.

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.

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.

No Democratic rivals have stepped forward to challenge U.S. Rep. Janice Schakowsky of Evanston for the privilege of representing the 9th Congressional District, but there's no shortage of candidates eager to take on Schakowsky a year from now.

Share + Nov 1, 2009 7:11 pm US/Central Reporting Vince Gerasole It's a taxing weekend for Cook County home owners.