Skokie, United States (Local)
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By: Samuel Lisec
The Skokie Village Board is poised to approve a new ordinance that would make it easier for a local distillery to sell its small-batch rum, gin and malt whiskey to restaurants and stores. Under its current license, Take Flight Spirits can manufacture liquor and sell to patrons on site, but Skokie’s sole distillery must work […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Water bills in Skokie are set to likely increase this fall. The Skokie Village Board provided unanimous preliminary approval during a July meeting to hike the cost of water nearly 15% — from $7.64 per 100 cubic feet to $8.78 per 100 cubic feet — to fund “water, sewer, lead lines, equipment, and flood control […]
By: Samuel Lisec
A Highland Park High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after she was arrested for an alleged domestic battery just days before the school year was set to begin.
By: Samuel Lisec
Skokie residents who call 911 for certain mental-health or substance-use issues may now see a team of behavioral health specialists arrive on scene instead of police.
By: Samuel Lisec
A Village of Northfield advisory board voted on Thursday against a proposal to create a new tax increment financing district, raising the bar for its potential approval.
By: Samuel Lisec
All good things must come to an end — at least, that’s what we’re telling ourselves here at The Record as we say goodbye to summer editorial intern Penelepe Roewe. A Morton Grove native and rising University of Illinois sophomore, Roewe was the sixth student journalist to embed with The Record’s newsroom as part of […]
By: Samuel Lisec
The Skokie Park District will present a “conceptual design” for a brand new park at a public meeting Thursday night as the district prepares to potentially purchase a shuttered school property. The public meeting — set for 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Weber Leisure Center, 9300 Weber Park Place — will outline what it […]
By: Samuel Lisec
The Skokie Village Board voted unanimously on Monday to renew its contract to keep police stationed in local Niles Township High School District 219 buildings, an agreement that reportedly contained updates concerning arrest and reporting procedures in schools. The “comprehensive update” to Skokie’s intergovernmental agreement with D219 reflects “current law and the present responsibilities” of […]
By: Samuel Lisec
Growing up in a traditional Indian household, Kaustubh “Stubhy” Pandav recalls his father limited access to Western music. The first song he ever learned was the Super Bowl Shuffle after his mother snuck him the lyrics from the west-suburban Downers Grove Public Library. So when Pandav was invited to a friend’s band practice in his […]
By: Samuel Lisec
A giant white hydrangea, two pink peonies, a crop of blue cornflowers and a handful of purple liatris. A billboard-sized mural of those native wildflowers and others painted onto the facade of a local business is the latest public art piece the Village of Skokie has sponsored. Louise Jones, a Detroit-based artist who specializes in […]
