Wilmette News

Parking in Gillson Park will be tight Friday for Wilmette's Independence Day celebration.

Wilmette businesses will entice shoppers with their Sidewalk Sale & Family Fun Fest July 10 and 11.

The Wilmette Arts Guild has a new gallery dedicated to photography in the Meskill Center in the Mallinckrodt building.

This hand-held photograph was taken while intentionally moving the camera while using the fireworks scene selection with the exposure compensation set to +2 to increase the shutter speed time from two to eight seconds.

NILES, IL, June 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Armenian Relief Mission and Zera Construction have once again joined together, this time with the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, to disassemble the village's used playground set so that it can be sent to Armenia and rebuilt to benefit orphaned children.

Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter heralded the slogan "cultivate, nurture and flourish" to guests during its Comfort Zone 2009 fundraiser on May 1 at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe.

"George has really set an example, starting out as a patrol officer and ending up as chief," Village President Christopher Canning said.

Wilmette officials are preparing to take another look at a proposal for Green Bay Road that was already rejected.

In the 1970s, easing the pain and distress of someone with a terminal disease was not a top priority for the medical profession.

Hundreds of homes in Wilmette and Kenilworth were without power for hours Tuesday and Wednesday.

Con artists are once again preying on grandparents' generosity and naivete. A Wilmette man was scammed out of more than $4,000 when he thought he was helping his grandson.

Isabella Street from the CTA crossing to Sheridan Road, near the Evanston-Wilmette border, will be closed to traffic from about 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday .

Wilmette District 39 plans to install digital security cameras this summer around the exterior of Wilmette Junior HIgh School and the Mikaelian Education Center.

Fire investigators suspect a faulty attic fan may have started a fire early Sunday in a two-story house on the 400 block of Maple Avenue.

Evanston fire investigators are working to determine whether construction was the cause of a fire that broke out Monday afternoon near the building of Evanston Hospital's Kellogg Cancer Care Center, resulting in evacuation of some of the hospital's patients from the adjacent existing building.

Mary Lacey suffered 48 stab wounds, three bullets and repeated blunt force trauma before she died Dec.

The weekend weather forecast was just what we needed after days of rain and Friday's string of storms.

The Chicago Park District has initiated a swim ban at all beaches Saturday after the Wilmette Avenue locks were opened to release excess storm water into Lake Michigan.

Authorities have ordered beaches in Chicago and Evanston closed because of health concerns stemming from recent heavy rains.

By 5 p.m. Friday, the Wilmette Public Works Department had received reports of 34 streets and six alleys with standing water after heavy downpours on and off throughout the day.