Nancy Harty

This week’s Difference Maker is Eco Flamingo, an environmentally conscious general store in Lincoln Square. Along the wall of Eco Flamingo are canisters of nuts, grains, legumes and more, but there are no plastic bags to put them in.

As the Chicago Teachers Union continues to push for hiring more librarians, the labor group hopes next week’s elections will help them. One of CTU’s proposals for the teachers’ contract under current negotiations is a librarian at every school.

The Illinois State Fire Marshal is investigating a deadly house fire in far north suburban Zion that kept crews busy for hours this morning. High winds made fighting the fire in the two-story home on Enoch Avenue a challenge.

As Mayor Johnson prepares to unveil his budget plan this morning, which is expected to include calls for a property tax hike, a group of aldermen say they have proof the people don’t want it.

This week’s Difference Maker is Eco Flamingo, an environmentally conscious general store in Lincoln Square. Along the wall of Eco Flamingo are canisters of nuts, grains, legumes and more, but there are no plastic bags to put them in.

Elk Grove Village Police will have more officers at a school today after a student allegedly made a threat. Police said they identified the student at Grove Junior High who allegedly shared a threat to Snapchat last week.

Members of the Chicago Jewish Alliance and others gathered blocks from where a 39-year-old man was shot on his way to synagogue Saturday morning. They’re called for hate crime charges against the gunman, 22-year-old Sidi Mohammed Abdullahi.

The officer was part of a response from Chicago Police to break up a large gathering of people near 75th and Phillips. It was after Halloween when the department said a white sedan hit the officer in the leg and drove away.

Some super seniors have been casting their ballots at an assisted living home in northwest suburban Arlington Heights. Seniors casted their ballot Friday at a temporary voting site set up in the chapel at Lutheran Home.

The man was partially submerged in a creek along a rural stretch of Route 47 in unincorporated Woodstock. The fire and rescue district said crews arrived and found the man awake but pinned under a tractor after a small bridge collapsed.