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Facing opposition from residents living adjacent to the Village’s business district, the Glencoe Village Board has adopted the findings of a long-in-development parking study without three areas that multiple residents spoke against during a recent Village Board meeting. In a 5-0 vote, with Trustee Dudley Onderdonk abstaining, the Glencoe Village Board on Thursday, June 18, [...

While Thomas Franklin, a rising senior at New Trier High School, didn’t set out to make noise, he did set out to measure it, and his findings are now reshaping policies at dozens of schools across Illinois.  In March 2024, Franklin noticed something that he said seemed obvious once he paid attention: Gas-powered leaf blowers […]

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With one of the town’s hottest topics on the agenda, Northfield Village Hall was filled to near capacity Tuesday night. Village trustees during their June 23 meeting dug deep into the ongoing debate over a proposed tax increment financing district — commonly known as a TIF district — and by night’s end voted to adopt […]

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Colorful LED lights lit up the downtown Winnetka sky last Friday night as Louisiana jazz-funk group Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue took Winnetka Music Festival’s main stage. Brass instruments loudly rang through the crowd, and a few raindrops couldn’t stop festival-goers from dancing and clapping to the beat of the music. More than 5,500 guests […]

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Even though Allison Cassato just opened her store, The Lake Effect, she says hello to nearly every person that walks down Chestnut Street.  It’s not that she met them overnight but that she’s built a community over years of doing local business in the same location, 547 Chestnut St.  But after seven years, she decided […]

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