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Maine South climbs to No. 8 in Illinois Media poll
Maine South moved up two spots to No. 8 in the Week 4 Illinois Media Class 8A football poll after a 41-7 CSL-opening win over Maine West, and faces undefeated New Trier on Friday, Sept. 11.
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Maine South climbs to No. 8 in Illinois Media poll
Maine South moved up two spots to No. 8 in the Week 4 Illinois Media Class 8A football poll after a 41-7 CSL-opening win over Maine West, and faces undefeated New Trier on Friday, Sept. 11.
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Park Ridge creates its first historic district
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Maine South climbs to No. 8 in Illinois Media poll
Maine South moved up two spots to No. 8 in the Week 4 Illinois Media Class 8A football poll after a 41-7 CSL-opening win over Maine West, and faces undefeated New Trier on Friday, Sept. 11.
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Park Ridge creates its first historic district
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Park Ridge creates its first historic district
The Park Ridge City Council approved the city's first-ever historic district designation for five Spanish Colonial Revival homes in the Spanish Town neighborhood and a Verizon Wireless cell tower lease at the Dee Road train station at its Sept. 8 meeting.
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Park Ridge council votes on first historic district Tuesday
The Park Ridge City Council will vote Tuesday, Sept. 8, on whether to approve the Spanish Town Historic District, the city's first-ever historic designation covering five 1927 homes. The Committee of the Whole will also take up traffic calming and pest control.
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District 207 college fair brings 136 schools to Maine West
Maine Township High School District 207 hosts its annual College Fair and Postsecondary Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, with about 136 colleges and 42 other exhibitors expected.
Education
District 64 hosts community coffee at Lincoln Sept. 10
District 64 Superintendent Dr. Ben Collins will hold an open community coffee at Lincoln Middle School on Sept. 10, giving residents a chance to talk informally with the superintendent at a building that underwent emergency fire-code repairs this summer.
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Des Plaines officer fatally shoots man on Touhy Avenue
Des Plaines police fatally shot 21-year-old Ayham Babidi during a domestic disturbance response in the 2000 block of Touhy Avenue on Wednesday, Sept. 9, closing the major corridor for hours and prompting an independent investigation by the Major Case Assistance Team.
Public Safety
Park Ridge police log 14 arrests in one week
Park Ridge police recorded 14 arrests between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7, up from 10 the week before, including a fugitive apprehension on Touhy Avenue, a DUI on Higgins Road, two battery charges at the police station address and a 14-year-old driver.
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Emerson dance diverts 250 plastic bottles with waste-free format
Emerson Middle School's eighth-grade promotional dance swapped single-use plastics for compostable cups and beverage carafes, keeping more than 250 bottles out of the waste stream as part of District 64's growing sustainability push.
Community
District 64 clean-out sends surplus supplies to Melrose Park
Park Ridge-Niles District 64 students sorted end-of-year supplies for reuse, recycling and donation through the annual Green Locker and Desk Clean-Out, with surplus materials going to Mannheim Middle School in Melrose Park.
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Cook County gas hits $4.52, tops Chicago metro before Labor Day
Cook County gas prices hit $4.52 per gallon ahead of Labor Day weekend, the highest in the Chicago metro and 20 cents above the Illinois average, with global supply disruptions driving record fuel costs.
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Bagel shop at Uptown Metra station one vote from opening, waiting room set to reopen
A commuter-focused bagel and coffee shop called Midwest Doughboys is one City Council vote away from opening inside the Uptown Park Ridge Metra station, a move city officials say will allow the main waiting room, closed since last winter due to vandalism, to reopen during regular hours.
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Maine South climbs to No. 8 in Illinois Media poll
Maine South moved up two spots to No. 8 in the Week 4 Illinois Media Class 8A football poll after a 41-7 CSL-opening win over Maine West, and faces undefeated New Trier on Friday, Sept. 11.
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Maine South's Skoronski signs NFL's richest guard deal
Maine South graduate Peter Skoronski signed a four-year, $100 million extension with the Tennessee Titans on Aug. 7, making the Park Ridge native the NFL's highest-paid offensive guard at $25 million per year.
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Ellie Nevel
Ellie Nevel is an Editor overseeing local news outlets. She holds a marketing degree from Illinois State University and brings that background to her work shaping how communities receive their news. Ellie is committed to delivering accurate, community-focused reporting on the issues that matter most to local readers.
Ellie Nevel
Ellie Nevel is an Editor overseeing local news outlets. She holds a marketing degree from Illinois State University and brings that background to her work shaping how communities receive their news. Ellie is committed to delivering accurate, community-focused reporting on the issues that matter most to local readers.
Ellie Nevel
Ellie Nevel is an Editor overseeing local news outlets. She holds a marketing degree from Illinois State University and brings that background to her work shaping how communities receive their news. Ellie is committed to delivering accurate, community-focused reporting on the issues that matter most to local readers.
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