Morton Grove News

Five cities and suburbs are facing lawsuits challenging their bans on handguns. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark June 26 decision, rejecting Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns, gun-rights lawyers ...

Deerfield resident Robert M. Katzman has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15 when he opened a newsstand in Hyde Park.

After the D.C. city council banned handguns in 1976, and the voters of Massachusetts overwhelmingly rejected a handgun ban initiative that same year, the next U.S. jurisdiction to enact a handgun ban was the ...

Today, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER that "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and ...

Morton Grove Mayor Richard Krier said the village would comply with the law. The Heller dominoes are falling.

FRONT PAGE IN DUPAGE EDITION WITH COLOR PHOTO OF MCCULLOCH: DuPage political consultant Rod McCulloch gets probation, community service in election fraud case - Jim Fuller ...

Some Chicago suburbs that have passed handgun bans in the past weren't sure if those laws could be jeopardized by Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Allen A. Freeman, a Republican Chicago alderman in the years after World War II, pushed for wider powers to punish polluters as a deputy Illinois attorney general and, in the final chapter of his public career, ...

'It's just me and my camera and the world' 'VISIONS' Photos by homeless offer rare look at city -- and income June 20, 2008 Ever since Ray Bauzys began taking snapshots of Chicago, he has noticed more of the ...

Q : What should I do to keep small caterpillars from devouring more of my rhododendron leaves? - Mark Webster, Morton Grove A : If you have just a few plants, the easiest way to deal with azalea ...

Coldwater Creek in Old Orchard provided cool and casual fashions for the annual Spring Fashion Show and Luncheon, sponsored by the Wilmette Group of North Shore Hadassah April 30 at Mission Hills Country Club ...

By ROBERT ELFINGER relfinger@pioneerlocal.com Marlee Matlin swung through the North Shore May 30 with her "Dancing with the Stars" partner Fabian Sanchez in tow to help raise money for the Northbrook-based ...

Rain or shine, Mike Capallo helped students get safely to Pleasant Ridge School for 11 years.

The summer festival season is in full swing - or make that yemenite. This weekend is the Jewish Festival in Morton Grove, an event that's been every two years or so since 1980 and now makes the claim of being ...

Joe Moll has little trouble pointing to what brought on the housing crisis -- full financing with no down payment, no-doc loans, mortgage companies making bad home loans then selling them for a quick profit, ...

What it does: Makes kefir, a milk-based product similar to yogurt that is popular in Russia.

At 1:45 p.m. on a Friday, a receptionist walks into the conference room of Gas Depot's Morton Grove office and holds up three fingers, signaling that the price of gasoline will rise by 3 cents a gallon at 6 ...

Highwood may have a new police chief starting June 21. Highwood city council members will meet June 3 to consider a recommendation to hire Louis Rossi, 52, a former deputy chief in the Morton Grove Police ...

A Chicago police officer, who allegedly beat two people in a Niles restaurant, posted $1,000 bond for two counts of battery and will appear in court on June 17 at 9 a.m. in room 103 of the Cook County ...

When Rebecca Nelson leaves Skokie-Morton Grove Elementary School District 69 this summer, in a very real sense she will be going home.