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By: Samuel Lisec
A majority of the Skokie Village Board expressed support last week for continuing to discuss whether to permit electronic slot machines within village borders, setting the stage for staff to seek community input on video gambling this fall. The trustees took a straw poll during a Monday Oct. 5 Committee of the Whole session on […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Skokie police arrested a man Tuesday morning after he reportedly attempted to rob a woman at Westfield Old Orchard Mall and held her head underwater in a pond. According to the Skokie Police Department, officers responded to the shopping center at 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, for a report of an attempted robbery, battery […]
By: Samuel Lisec
On a certain quiet residential block in Skokie, most houses display modest Halloween decorations — the occasional carved pumpkin, a ghost here, a ghoul there. But one house is teeming with spooky embellishments. Tombstones pepper the yard. Skeletons climb the home’s facade. A tunnel of white spiderwebs leads to a real pumpkin patch growing at the […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Editor's Note: This story was updated with additional information at 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14.
By: Samuel Lisec
After the Village of Skokie set the majority of its residential streets to a uniform speed limit of 25 mph earlier this spring, police stopped more vehicles for speeding violations and the number of car crashes in the village decreased compared to last year, according to a report from village staff. Samantha Maximilian, Skokie’s senior […]
By: Samuel Lisec
A “suspicious” envelope reportedly sent to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s office in Skokie on Friday was one of several mailed to elected officials across the country, a social media post from the congresswoman states. Federal authorities are investigating “suspicious letters” sent to four Illinois representatives — Schakowsky (D-9th), Brad Schneider (D-10th), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-8th), Mike […]
By: Samuel Lisec
A “suspicious” envelope reportedly sent to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky's office in Skokie on Friday was one of several mailed to elected officials
By: Samuel Lisec
Marcelina Ramirez was at work inside Simon Brothers Bakery this February when managers of the Skokie facility called her and about 60 of her coworkers into the cafeteria to deliver the news: The factory was shutting down, and they were out of a job in two weeks. Her coworkers’ fell silent as they read papers […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Skokie police and fire responded to a suspicious envelope delivered to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s local office on Wednesday, a spokesperson for her office said, the second one reportedly sent to her office in less than a week. A news release from the Skokie Fire Department said the agency responded to the 4500 block of […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Daniel Zellner’s passion for theater began in nursery school, when he first got the opportunity to run around wild on stage and make believe, he said. He has since studied theater in New Orleans, Los Angeles and Chicago, launched his own theater company, worked under an Italian maestro of “commedia dell’arte” and coached the Renaissance-era […]
