Wilmette News

Ch. 2 political editor Mike Flannery has listed his longtime 17-room mansion in Beverly for $1.25 million.

If the Illinois Standards Achievement Test is any indication, students who attend public schools in New Trier Township leave eighth grade with a strong and comparable foundation for the more rigorous demands of high school.

In response to a string of thefts from customers at local restaurants recently, the Wilmette Police Department had undercover officers staked out at the Corner Bakery Cafe in the Edens Plaza.

Though turkey is the traditional star of the Thanksgiving table, you should consider spreading your wings and serve something different this year, says Dave Zier, master butcher.

Two Glencoe School District 35 schools are in the top 100 elementary and middle schools in the state, based on a Sun Times ranking.

Four Wilmette schools have placed among the top schools in Illinois on Sun-Times Media lists of the highest performers on the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests.

Police frequently get reports of pickpockets who slyly remove women's wallets from their purses while they eat in restaurants or shop at grocery stores, completely unaware of the thief prowling nearby.

A world of entertainment for kids is coming to the Wilmette Theatre, 1122 Central Ave., Saturday, Oct.

Wilmette police are increasing patrols after burglars struck at five homes between Friday and Sunday.

The official hours for trick-or-treating in Wilmette are from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Seven candidates - five Republicans and two Democrats - running for the 10th Congressional District will vie to capture the top spot on the Feb.

Maybe it's the cool fall weather or simply a case of short-term memory, but ComEd officials on Tuesday night were not confronted with a roomful of customers still angry over last summer's power failures in Kenilworth.

School District 39 alumnus and former Wilmette resident, chef Charlie Trotter, will be honored with the District 39 Educational Foundation s second annual Distinguished Citizen Award.

A wicked group of life-sized characters are in the front yard of the Weyermuller House at 208 Lawndale Ave., Wilmette.

Only twice has murder sounded so good to Kat Taylor. The first time was when singers around Chicago started turning up dead in "The Case of the Dying Divas," the first cabaret murder mystery Taylor wrote, directed and performed in a few years ago.

The Haven Youth & Family Services has moved its headquarters from Winnetka to a more welcoming place with more room in downtown Wilmette.

The Wilmette Fine Arts Commission launched Arts Awareness Month on Oct. 2 with the opening of a month-long community photography exhibit -- People and Places, from Near and Far -- at North Shore Community Bank in Wilmette.

Three people were injured when a car driven by an 85-year-old man plowed through the window wall of a store in the Wilmette Commons strip mall, on the Wilmette-Skokie border.

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A Chicago motorist was killed Sunday morning when he crashed and was ejected from a sport utility vehicle on the Edens Expressway near Wilmette.