Wilmette News

Chicago is turning up the heat in Miami in the second season of "Magic City," debuting at 8 p.m. Friday on Starz.

With little more on her actor's resume than some children's shows at the Winnetka Community Center and a musical at New Trier, 18-year-old Katie Chang has made a very auspicious movie debut.

One would expect the producer of an outdoor theater festival to have a background in drama, perhaps business.

A Leamington Avenue homeowner will pay $3,000 in fines to Wilmette for having gone ahead with house remodeling without required permits.

Like a lot of kids, the two brothers from northern Illinois spent hours marveling at the weird and the wonderful in the Guinness Book of World Records - and wondering what they could do Summer Gaines-Wheeler, left, and her twin sister, Sydney, one of the 24 sets of twins from Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette, Ill., pose for a portrait in ... (more)

This June 6, 2013 photo shows twenty-four sets of twins who are fifth-graders at Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette, Ill.

A Chicago-area middle school is hoping to claim the world record for the most sets of twins in one grade.

Arrests have been made the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old north suburban man whose body was found Monday just off the Edens Expressway.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of Glenview Police Department.

As he completed his first two weeks on the job, new Wilmette Village President Bob Bielinski was keeping his "to-do" list short: economic redevelopment, especially downtown; careful budgeting; and continued high quality village services for residents.

Wilmette police are seeking information on the car murder victim Colin Nutter was driving the night he was shot to death in Wilmette; a navy blue 2002 Dodge Stratus similar to this.

Actress Katie Chang and director Sofia Coppola arrive to the Los Angeles premiere of A24's "The Bling Ring" at the Directors Guild Theater on June 4, 2013.

Angela Renee knew she was meant to be a fitness trainer in her early 20s when she was working as a video editor, and she would spend her vacation time attending fitness conferences across the country.

A drug investigation that started late Friday afternoon of on the 1500 block of Forest Avenue netted Wilmette police and Cook County investigators 10 drug arrests for possession of ecstasy, pain pills, and marijuana.

Wilmette police have identified an apparent homicide victim from Highland Park as Colin Nutter, 20, whose body was found Monday at about 8:30 p.m. by someone walking a dog along Frontage Road, just south of Old Glenview Road and Briar Drive.

Police in north suburban Wilmette are conducting a death investigation, after a body was discovered near the Edens Expressway early Tuesday, an official said.

Grandmother of missing Maywood boy Bryeon Hunter defended her daughter, saying it was the boyfriend who killed the boy.

A recent police raid on a Wilmette man's home yielded five drug arrests and led to five more arrests later that night, Wilmette police said today.

Everyone wants to feel useful, and to stand on their own - to be part of a workplace and say, "I can help you; I can do it." A desire for workplace independence isn't the sole purview of CEOs or career professionals; it's a human constant.

Without the suggestion of a cliche, it could be said that Dr. Stuart Sondheimer of Wilmette is a man of vision.