Igor Studenkov

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As Panjwani Network Restaurants prepares to demolish the eight-space shopping strip at the northwest corner of Higgins Road and Cumberland Avenue to make way for a larger Dunkin Donuts and two commercial spaces, Mac’s Restaurant, a Park Ridge fixture for 67 years, is considering whether it should reopen in the new building or try its luck elsewhere.

Park Ridge Public Works Committee of the Whole members voted unanimously on July 6 to codify the speed limit on the section of Talcott Road on the south side of Roosevelt Elementary School, between Prospect and Fairview avenues.

Park Ridge Public Works Committee of the Whole members decided not to move forward on a proposal to allow residential permit parking for townhomes at the north end of Uptown, between the Shops of Uptown mixed-use development and Hinkley Park.

Program seeks to reduce recidivism, help participants build productive lives

Collin Corbett, a Palatine native and a long-time Republican strategist, believes that there has never been a better time to run for governor as an independent candidate. “I can't say this would’ve worked a decade ago, I can't say this would’ve worked even five years ago,” he said. “But, as we’ve seen, as our politics have become more and more extreme and more and more partisan, the number of people that I speak to on a regular basis, especially throughout the suburbs of Chicago and some of our more urban areas throughout the state -- people recognize that something different has to happen.”

As the Park Ridge City Council prepares to approve the one-year extension of the Flock license plate reading cameras contract, alderpersons want more data on how effective the devices have been in deterring traffic violations and other issues.

Sweltering heat didn’t keep a few dozen Park Ridge elected officials and residents from gathering at the northeast corner of the three-way intersection of Cedar Street, Northwest Highway and Meacham Avenue last Friday (July 3) for the rededication of the historic William H. Malone drinking fountain.

A group of homeowners living east of the spot where Talcott Place dead-ends into Crescent Avenue want to turn five distinctive Spanish Colonial Revival style homes into Park Ridge’s first-ever historic district.

Park Ridge City Council voted unanimously July 6 to approve a package of zoning changes and variances that will pave the way for Advocate Lutheran Hospital’s new two-story Comprehensive Cancer Center.