Highland Park News

A Northbrook investment firm and its Highland Park owner have been accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of aiding a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme.

Community and school activities: Eagle Scout, Highland Park High Ultimate Frisbee president and creator, Iron Sharpens Iron, National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, Math National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society and Highland Park Clean Team School and grade: Highland Park High School, senior in the fall Hobbies: Playing ...

Rare and unique classic cars from the North Shore to Wisconsin and Indiana will be on display July 12 at the ninth annual Auto Historica IX at the Highland Park Historical Museum.

Highwood's Nuestro Center is looking for a new home. The lease on the center's location at Northshore Estates, on the 600 block of Sheridan Road, ends in March, and a new place is needed for both existing programs and extra space to start a Youth Center.

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

Smokers can still light up elsewhere but areas near playgrounds, athletic fields and the skate park in the Vernon Hills Park District system are off limits.

Lots of art in Bartlett Sixty-four artists will display their works at the annual Bartlett Festival of the Arts.

A bipartisan group of local officials is asking PACE to purchase alternative fuel buses with federal stimulus funding instead of purchasing diesel models.

Isolated Senior Citizens in Antioch, Lake Villa, Lindenhurst, the Round Lake area and Grayslake are the focus of a new outreach program to improve their access to health services called Access to Care.

Con artists are once again preying on grandparents' generosity and naivete. A Wilmette man was scammed out of more than $4,000 when he thought he was helping his grandson.

Monday, June 22, 2009 Chicago couple with swine flu say 'I do' ODD NEWS In this photo taken Sunday, June 14, 2009 provided by Duron Studio Photography in Skokie, Ill., Ilana Jackson, left, and Jeremy Fierstien wear surgical masks during their wedding in Highland Park, Ill.

Cook County prosecutors said Northbrook resident Hyungseok Henry Koh admitted on videotape he slit his son's throat with a kitchen knife in the April 16 alleged slaying.

For her eighth book, author Barbara Garland Polikoff of Highland Park has taken on poetry and photography.

Car thieves got away with about $9,000 worth of car parts from 10 vehicles parked in the outdoor display lot of Muller Honda in Highland Park on two separate occasions in June.

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It is a cruel irony when an artist begins to lose his greatest gift to the clutches of disease.

North Shore Academy student Patrick Herron and recent graduate Chris Inman won't be able to enjoy their new school facility when it opens in 2010, but both said they are excited for the accommodations that await their younger classmates.

Football camp: The All-Pro Football Clinic is scheduled for June 23-25 at Highland Park High School, 15900 Woodward, Highland Park.

Wendy Wasserstein's play "Third" debuted at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in late September 2005.

When the Lake County Forest Preserve District took possession of what is now the Fox River Preserve and Marina in 1990, recalled Executive Director Tom Hahn, "it was a mess about 200 or 300 dilapidated trailers." Two decades later, the preserve spans 589 acres on both sides of the Fox River in Cuba Township, and boasts a four-lane boat launch, two ...