Morton Grove News

The following incidents were listed in the official reports of the Morton Grove Police Department.

Nearly 120 city and suburban residents will celebrate their first Thanksgiving as U.S. citizens next week after they took the Oath of Allegiance Thursday at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie.

Russ Villano took a one-hour CPR course 20 years ago, but that was apparently enough to keep one stranger alive.

The Veterans Day holiday originated as "Armistice Day," a day dedicated to peace and to honor the veterans of World War I, "the war to end all wars." "Yet once again our country is at war," Michael Jonscher, the former commander of the American Legion Huerter-Wilmette Post 46, told the people gathered for a Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday in ...

Village officials are looking at a combination of spending cuts, staff reductions and new revenue in an effort to close a more than $3 million gap in next year's budget.

Officials in Skokie-Morton Grove Elementary School District 69 say they will likely pick the district's new superintendent soon.

Got Rod? Not if you're in the business of selling hit Halloween costumes. It turns out Rod Blagojevich's fans are buying up "Illinois Big Wig" hairpieces based on the former Illinois governor's famous coif.

Skokie-Morton Grove Elementary School District 69 students will be able to receive swine flu vaccinations at school beginning this week.

Blood-thirsty demons, dead celebrities and living politicians are all part of this year's Halloween costume craze.

Drivers in Morton Grove will have to be a little more careful to watch for red lights when the village installs a system to record violations at three major intersections.

The Herbert A. Dilg House at 8544 Callie in Morton Grove was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on Sept.

Although officials from MB Financial Bank say a new proposal for a drive-through behind the main bank building is significantly different from a plan withdrawn more than five years ago, neighbors say they still are opposed to it.

It might not be Halloween yet, but with an autumn this chilly and wet, it's not too early to start thinking about snow.

Firefighters continue to battle a two-alarm fire at Matty's Wayside Inn in Glenview this morning.

The National Register of Historic Places has a new entry. A home in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove has made the list.

Park Ridge police charged one of the drivers in Sunday's fatal crash. Ibrahim Y Yaro, 34, of Chicago, was charged with one count of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol.

Park Ridge police reported Sunday that two people died in a car crash at Oakton Street and Riverside Drive.

A hair dryer may have been the cause of a small fire inside a home in the 8000 block of Church Street in Niles.

Trustees Monday are expected to approve an ordinance updating part of the Morton Grove traffic ordinance dealing with such things as booting and towing a vehicle.

Cosmetology student Robyn Dominiguez, of Morton Grove, practices her hairdressing skills on a mannequin at Tricoci University in Chicago.