Glenview News

Firefighters made quick work of a small townhouse fire last Friday in unincorporated Des Plaines that left of one of five connected units uninhabitable but the other four unscathed.

Glenview's Independence Day activities managed to dodge the raindrops. Following morning showers, the rain started again just as the annual parade was ending, and ended before the twilight show at the Glenview Park Golf Club, that featured the North Shore Concert Band and the annual fireworks.

Myfitbrain, a set of innovative mental fitness games available to users at no cost, is the brainchild of James Hanekamp, a Glenview resident who has come up with a real mind-bending concept.

Workers are installing bluestone patios and a pergola as focal points in a garden outside Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook's new building near the Glen in Glenview.

There are many ways to say "thank you" -- with letters, phone calls, e-mails, text messages, hugs, handshakes, smiles, and commercial thank-you notes and cards.

Of all the national holidays, July 4 is the one on which Americans are most encouraged to celebrate.

Firefighters and local residents gather in the new Station No. 7 garage during Saturday's fire department open house on Glenview Road.

Firefighters work to enter the damaged office building on Friday. Fire severely damaged a vacant office building in Executive Office Plaza in Park Ridge the evening of Friday, June 26.

On a bright sunny Saturday last weekend, local residents and visitors from around the area celebrated summer at Glenview's Summer Festival.

Village planners hope to clamp down on the permissible height of storage sheds, since becoming aware that Glenview regulations allow the sheds to be built as high as a house or detached garage.

The Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" rang true when it was played during Saturday's grand openinig of "Community Bark West," the six-acre dog park at Community Park West, 1001 Zenith Drive.

Northfield Township High School District 225 will contest a recent state appellate decision that the district's newsletters concerning the successful 2006 referendum are "electioneering communications" and seemingly subject to state election laws.

A Glenview teenager who pulled an 83-year-old woman from a car stuck on railroad tracks seconds before the car was hit by a train was one of 22 people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism today.

Howard Levinson, a Glenview man more comfortable skimming clouds than treading walkways, has become one of the newest members of the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame.

He was the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast," the relentless and possibly evil Javert in "Les Miserables" at Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire and now he's the rich and immoral investor, Von Hussler, in the hit musical "Mary Poppins" playing at Cadillac Palace Theater in Chicago.

In the 1970s, easing the pain and distress of someone with a terminal disease was not a top priority for the medical profession.

Seventeen vendors selling produce, baked goods, gourmet items, dog treats, flowers and crafts are lined up for this year's Glenview Farmers Market, which opens for the season Saturday.

After 10 days of testimony, a Cook County Circuit Court jury of seven men and five women began deliberating this afternoon whether Steven Zirko, a former cruise line piano player, murdered his former companion, Mary Lacey, and her mother, Margaret Ballog, in Glenview four and a half years ago.

Fire investigators suspect a faulty attic fan may have started a fire early Sunday in a two-story house on the 400 block of Maple Avenue.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "South Pacific" in 1949 yet audiences still connect to the multiple Tony-winning musical.