Niles News

Crime dropped by 3.3% in Niles from 2007 to 2008. Crime was down in every category in Niles except a very small increase in aggravated assault and battery cases, according to State of Illinois crime statistics comparing 2007 and 2008.

A Westchester man has been charged with murdering a Niles man who was shot dead Wednesday in west suburban Stone Park.

The summer of 2010 is going to be one of the busiest, construction-wise, in Park Ridge-Niles School District 64's recent history.

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 educators measure student learning and progress in 10 ways.

As President Obama declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a national emergency, Niles Elementary School Dist.

Area residents were invited last week to bring their families and friends to experience the frightening creatures of the Niles Teen Center's eighth annual Haunted Garage, according to a news release.

Faith Lutheran Church, 6201 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, features a Crafters Boutique, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct.

The great outdoors has become the newest frontier for culinary construction, which can include everything, even the kitchen sink.

Story posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Cook County released property tax rates for suburban townships yesterday , the final piece of the puzzle in figuring tax bills.

A Whirlpool logo is seen on a dryer at a Sears store May 12, 2006 in Niles, Illinois.

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

The Park Ridge Public Arts Commission is considering its role in fundraising for the restoration of the old WPA mural that used to hang in the Park Ridge Post Office.

Suburban police don't know what impact closing expressways in Chicago will have during Wednesday and Thursday commutes, but they're monitoring potential traffic jams on suburban streets.

For being in a recession, the Niles Community Development department is awfully busy, according to a speech by Development Director Chuck Ostman at the Niles Mayoral Luncheon last week.

For seven years, an 83-year-old Park Ridge resident has endured a bizarre series of incidents involving vandalism and harassment.

The Niles Board of Ethics convened a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the relationship between village hiring practices and political influence in the wake of incendiary statements from the village manager and a Herald-Spectator story.

A man and woman died Sunday following an early morning crash in which four others were injured in northwest suburban Park Ridge.

"When in doubt there are two ways out," will be the winning slogan for Fire Prevention Week on the marquee of the Niles Fire Station on Dempster Street throughout the month of October.

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

A 21-year-old Niles man is facing up to 15 years in prison after his arrest Wednesday on charges he possessed, and in one instance distributed, child pornography from a computer in his mother's McHenry home.