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Train, plank road, liquor, high school shaped local area, historian says
Niles and Morton Grove started out as crossroads towns, places where taverns served…
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A Niles Library employee Saul Pina unloads crates from a North Suburban Library System van, which delivers materials to and from other libraries in the system. Each of the 10 library systems in the state has a similar system; and state funding cuts threaten this pickup and delivery service. State budget cuts threaten services at local libraries
The state’s budget crisis is threatening services at Niles, Park Ridge, Morton Grove…
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Four-year-old Ben Schroeder of Lockport plays with a soccer ball and cone during a sports program in Lockport. Photo by Robert Bykowski Bringing families together through sports
As a budding entrepreneur 14 years ago, Mark Miller saw an opportunity that sparked his passion for getting parents and their…
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Dist. 63 panel brainstorms ways to relieve overcrowding
Some of East Maine School District 63’s schools are getting too crowded, while other schools have empty…
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Robert Bykowski/Staff photographer. Students from St. John Brebeuf are awarded their certificates for winning the Niles Library’s Battle of the Books.
Success in ‘Battle’ wins kids an author visit and pizza party
To cap off a successful “Battle of the Books” season, local schoolchildren got a visit from a major national author Friday at the…
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