A candlelight vigil was held at Des Plaines' Metropolitan Square on Friday night (Jan. 9) in honor of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis.

The Park Ridge Public Library is giving local residents and other library patrons a chance to show off their painting skills. For the past four years, adult programming librarian Sarah Vessalo has ...

Des Plaines’ decades-long search for the holy grail of redevelopment ramped up in 2025 with several multi-million dollar projects having kicked off or are close to taking shape as we enter a new year.

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-3rd) during her September 2025 town hall in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood (Photo by Igor Studenkov/Journal & Topics Reporter) Incumbent U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-3rd ...

Christmas trees dragged onto the ice on Lake Glenview to later sink and become fish habitat. (Anna Ables/Glenview Park Dist.) The Glenview Park District and the village of Glenview have launched a ...

Steve Coogan in "The Penguin Lessons", one of the year's most underappreciated films. Every year that goes by, it gets more difficult, and arbitrary, to sort through the plethora of films I see to ...

From developing restaurants to buying a large piece of land to the loss of a police officer, Glenview had an eventful year. The following are the Journal’s top stories of 2025 in Glenview, in no ...

While Illinois high school teams don’t always get the respect they deserve in national polls, the state proved to be a force at the college level this season. The College of DuPage won their fifth ...

Prospect traveled to Unity Christian School in Decatur, about a three-hour drive away from Prospect High School, for the Unity Christian New Year’s Duals in boys wrestling Friday-Saturday, Jan. 2-3 -- ...

It was an unforgettable news year in Palatine from familiar elected leaders winning new terms, to federal agents storming neighborhoods, to downtown improvement projects. Here are the Journal’s top ...

Federal agents take a man into custody in Glenview on Robin Drive in October. (Photo submitted) The issue of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection officers ...

Three Journal-area alums were on the Washington State football team in 2025, but none of them intend to be back in 2026. A coaching change led to the three wanting to move on from the program after ...