Samuel Lisec

Skokie residents who call 911 for certain mental-health or substance-use issues may now see a team of behavioral health specialists arrive on scene instead of police.

A Village of Northfield advisory board voted on Thursday against a proposal to create a new tax increment financing district, raising the bar for its potential approval.

All good things must come to an end — at least, that’s what we’re telling ourselves here at The Record as we say goodbye to summer editorial intern Penelepe Roewe. A Morton Grove native and rising University of Illinois sophomore, Roewe was the sixth student journalist to embed with The Record’s newsroom as part of […]

The Skokie Park District will present a “conceptual design” for a brand new park at a public meeting Thursday night as the district prepares to potentially purchase a shuttered school property. The public meeting — set for 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Weber Leisure Center, 9300 Weber Park Place — will outline what it […]

The Skokie Village Board voted unanimously on Monday to renew its contract to keep police stationed in local Niles Township High School District 219 buildings, an agreement that reportedly contained updates concerning arrest and reporting procedures in schools. The “comprehensive update” to Skokie’s intergovernmental agreement with D219 reflects “current law and the present responsibilities” of […]

Growing up in a traditional Indian household, Kaustubh “Stubhy” Pandav recalls his father limited access to Western music. The first song he ever learned was the Super Bowl Shuffle after his mother snuck him the lyrics from the west-suburban Downers Grove Public Library. So when Pandav was invited to a friend’s band practice in his […]

A giant white hydrangea, two pink peonies, a crop of blue cornflowers and a handful of purple liatris. A billboard-sized mural of those native wildflowers and others painted onto the facade of a local business is the latest public art piece the Village of Skokie has sponsored. Louise Jones, a Detroit-based artist who specializes in […]

A Highland Park High School foreign-language teacher who was charged with domestic battery and put on leave in August at least twice faced disciplinary action from Township High School District 113 for “unprofessional conduct” around students, district documents show. The Wauconda Police Department arrested Bridget Fahrner at her Wauconda home on Aug. 9 for allegedly […]

“So what does local government do?” Skokie Village Manager John Lockerby asked an audience of 23 local teenagers last week. “In a very simplistic way, it boils down to services and infrastructure.” Lockerby was addressing the newly minted members of Skokie’s Youth Commission, an “advisory and action-oriented body” the Village Board created last March, during […]

Standing before the Village Board Tuesday evening, Skokie’s Deputy Chief of Police John Oakley provided some examples of how the police department has “successfully” utilized Flock automatic license plate readers. In one instance, Flock cameras reportedly helped locate a missing woman who had become confused and driven hours away from Skokie. In another, the cameras […]