Park Ridge News

A proposal that would allow 80-foot billboards to be constructed along Interstate-294 in Park Ridge was unanimously rejected Nov.

Two high school students were charged with battery in separate recent incidents in Park Ridge.

The Tuesday auction for the building that houses Chase Bank and American Eagle in Uptown Park Ridge was cancelled after the owner accepted an offer.

Several Park Ridge residents will appear in the Footlighters theater group's presentation of "Scrooge, the Musical." Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec.

A Park Ridge woman has filed a lawsuit after her neighbor's pit bull attacked her so viciously it took two people and a severed ponytail to finally get the beast named Wrigley off of her.

To form a more perfect democracy [and a more popular Democratic Party], Quinn calls a Saturday Presser - but it was not about Stroger, or Stroger's tax.

"People on the Move" appears in every edition of The Business Ledger. Information on area business people who have been hired, promoted, honored, elected or otherwise recognized should be sent to Jeremy Stoltz, Editor, The Business Ledger, 1260 Iroquois Ave., Suite 200, Naperville, Ill.

A Skokie teenager serving a prison sentence on drug charges robbed a Park Ridge bank last year while dressed in women's clothing, authorities suspect.

The home of a police boss possibly third in line to Supt. Jody Weis was burglarized Monday on the Far Northwest Side and police believe it may be linked to a pattern in nearby Niles or Park Ridge.

Park Ridge police detectives have arrested a woman they suspect sold heroin to a person last week on a residential Park Ridge city street.

Teens find small town life dull until Ren arrives in "Footloose," at Devonshire Playhouse Youth Theatre, 4400 Greenwood, Skokie, 7 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, through Nov.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 9:15 pm US/Central Reporting Jim Williams PARK RIDGE, Ill. What do you do when a holiday tradition, cherished for generations, is stopped cold because of the bad economy? In one Chicago area community, adults and children alike rolled up their sleeves, grabbed a few ladders and went to work.

A Skokie teenager serving a prison sentence on drug charges robbed a Park Ridge bank last year while dressed in women's clothing, authorities suspect.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 10:39 am US/Central PARK RIDGE, Ill. Christmas was looking very iffy for 7-year-old Ben Ryles and the other children of Park Ridge.

After stints in both public accounting as an audit manager and in industry as a software consultant to CPA firms, Alexander Vuchnich was driven to start his own practice because of what he described as the continued resistance of traditional firms to change.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 10:17 pm US/Central DEERFIELD, lll. A Colorado man apparently drowned while cleaning a pond Tuesday afternoon outside a north suburban company.

Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri was elected to the Board in 1994 and is currently serving his fourth term.

Two more Park Ridge residents fell victim to a scammer who claims to be a neighbor locked out of his home.

The Illinois Senate moved to undercut the powers of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger by voting to lower the threshold for county commissioners to override his veto.

Five hundred seventy five guests attended the Park Ridge-based Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care Angels Ball on Saturday, Oct.