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A new business proposed for Hawthorn mall in Vernon Hills would feature self-serve beer and wine taps, allowing customers to drink alcohol while strolling through the shopping center. While supportive...

For nearly three hours on the night of Nov. 18, Vernon Hills police dealt with an unusual circumstance that rarely if ever had been encountered in town. Initially reported as a bobcat sighting, police...

Selling unlicensed, cannabis-like products soon will be illegal in Wheeling.

Skokie’s mayor and five members of its village board have filed a motion urging the village’s Ethics Commission to fine the sixth village board member, James Johnson, $5,000 for filing a “frivolous” ethics complaint. Johnson said he is being retaliated against and the village is “perpetuating political corruption.” Johnson has filed four ethics complaints since 2021, and the village’s Ethics ...

A low-cost fitness center could fill the long vacant Old Navy space in the Marketplace of Vernon Hills shopping center.

Skokie village trustees voted July 3 to release some but not all the audio of a pair of private meetings of the Village Board which the Illinois Attorney General recently determined should be made public. The Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor, which enforces rules around citizen access to government meetings and records, ruled in April that the board had inappropriately discussed some ...

Skokie Faces Lawsuit Over Failure To Abide Attorney General Ruling - Skokie, IL - The village board is expected to vote on the matter on Monday — more than two months after it was informed of Open Meetings Act violations.

The Skokie ethics commission will proceed to a hearing for one of Trustee Jame Johnson's two complaints. Commissioners dismissed the other complaint.

A long-vacant furniture store in Vernon Hills will be repurposed as an indoor amusement park for kids and adults with attractions including go karts, obstacle courses and more.

The Vernon Hills Village Board voted Tuesday night to approve a special use permit to Urban Air to open an adventure park with trampolines, laser tag, go-karts and climbing walls. The move to grant the permit came over an objection from nearby trampoline park SkyZone, which opened in 2018.