Morton News

The city of Evanston invites residents to a community budget workshop at 7 p.m. Nov.

The city of Evanston will kick off its 2010-11 budget process with an overview/educational workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov.

By McClatchy-Tribune and Reporter StaffFor the second year in a row, fans of pumpkin pie may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.There's a shortage.Blame bad weather in the single village that's home to the single company controlling 80 to 90 percent of the nation's pumpkin pie ...

For the second year in a row, fans of open-and-pour pie mixes may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.

After Wednesday's press conference announcing the DC government's award of the enormous Park Morton contract to Landex Corp.

Families with more than 10 children are becoming the norm among a group of traditionalist US Christians.

It's fall and time for pumpkins! Nothing says autumn like the sight of a pumpkin or the smell of pumpkin pie.

The Great Pumpkin Plague affecting some parts of the country hasn't been a problem for pumpkin patches that are a Halloween tradition in this area, growers say.

Morton School District #709 is offering free developmental screenings Thursday. The check-up will screen school readiness and communication skills, motor development, and attention, hearing, and vision.

Dozens of local business owners learned ways to "get green, go green and save green" Tuesday morning at a special breakfast event hosted by the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth Edison, commonly known as ComEd, and Citizens for a Greener Evanston.

A former Morton volunteer fireman was indicted Thursday in two separate arson cases.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 6:47 p.m. You may have noticed a shortage of canned pumpkin on store shelves.

Morton Arboretum Fall Bulb Sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. More than 150 varieties of spring-blooming bulbs, including 59 tulip varieties.

Dylan Henricks of Morton has been playing soccer since he was 5 years old. But if not for the pediatric cardiology wing of Peoria's Children's Hospital of Illinois he would never have stepped on the field.

A volunteer Morton firefighter is charged with two counts of arson. Morton Police say 34a 'year old Timothy J. Perry is the prime suspect in a series of fires this summer in Tazewell County.

Matt Sommer is working up a sweat, clearing out space for storage in what will soon be South Side Mission's newest store that will be located in Morton.

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Lorraine H. Morton of Evanston, the former mayor of the city, recently was honored at the annual benefit of the Mental Health Association of the North Shore .

Kathryn Buchanan and Robert Bjarke were married on June 6th, 2009 in Sonoma County, CA.

Even more local roads will be littered with orange barrels. Here are the details in this week's Construction Brake.