![Representatives from the village of Niles and the Golf Mill Shopping Center hosted an Open House on Monday to discuss the upcoming redevelopment at the mall. Construction is expected to begin in 2025. Mayor George Alpogianis kicked off the event that brought nearly 200 people to Golf Mill. Florida-based Sterling Organization, which bought Golf Mill in 2014, brought their CEO Brian Kosoy and Managing Director of Development and Construction Dusting Hicks to present their upcoming project. The mall’s next step is for the village board to approve a redevelopment agreement with Sterling at its upcoming board of trustees meeting on […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ppn-l-nhs-golf-mill-redevelopment-0613-01_45c73e.jpg?w=116 "Representatives from the village of Niles and the Golf Mill Shopping Center hosted an Open House on Monday to discuss the upcoming redevelopment at the mall. Construction is expected to begin in 2025. Mayor George Alpogianis kicked off the event that brought nearly 200 people to Golf Mill. Florida-based Sterling Organization, which bought Golf Mill in 2014, brought their CEO Brian Kosoy and Managing Director of Development and Construction Dusting Hicks to present their upcoming project. The mall’s next step is for the village board to approve a redevelopment agreement with Sterling at its upcoming board of trustees meeting on […]")
Redevelopment plans for Niles’ Golf Mill Shopping Center advance; village, developer show united front
Representatives from the village of Niles and the Golf Mill Shopping Center hosted an Open...
Arlington Heights
![Molly Pinta was in middle school when she founded the gay pride parade in Buffalo Grove – the village’s first. Now a young adult and heading off to college in the fall, she is passing the reins of the ever-growing, perennial parade on to her parents. On June 2, 2019, shortly before the first parade rolled, Pinta, who was 13 at the time, stood on a Buffalo Grove road that morning as a rising seventh-grader, posing with her parents Bob and Carolyn Pinta for a family portrait. Since then, the “Buffalo Grove Pride Parade” has been a milestone for the […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/06/06/2KMG63IBZFAE3GA6AT5LK7ACVA.jpg?w=135 "Molly Pinta was in middle school when she founded the gay pride parade in Buffalo Grove – the village’s first. Now a young adult and heading off to college in the fall, she is passing the reins of the ever-growing, perennial parade on to her parents. On June 2, 2019, shortly before the first parade rolled, Pinta, who was 13 at the time, stood on a Buffalo Grove road that morning as a rising seventh-grader, posing with her parents Bob and Carolyn Pinta for a family portrait. Since then, the “Buffalo Grove Pride Parade” has been a milestone for the […]")
Gay pride parade rolls in Buffalo Grove, its young founder headed to college and passing torch
Molly Pinta was in middle school when she founded the gay pride parade in Buffalo...
![Go to a Park Ridge youth game and you’ll likely meet an atypical soccer mom – no newcomer to the game. She’s a champion. She’s a Rocker. She’s either an Attacker or Terminator. And if you cross paths with Erin Curry, nee Farmer, she’s a Farm Dog. Select grade school-age soccer players in town have an elite lineage. Their mothers were part of the Rockers traveling team that quickly won titles soon after its start-up in the early 1990s. They were hardly the definition of an “expansion team.” The Rockers won between 12 and 15 tournaments […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ppn-l-prh-rockers-dickinson.jpg?w=117 "Go to a Park Ridge youth game and you’ll likely meet an atypical soccer mom – no newcomer to the game. She’s a champion. She’s a Rocker. She’s either an Attacker or Terminator. And if you cross paths with Erin Curry, nee Farmer, she’s a Farm Dog. Select grade school-age soccer players in town have an elite lineage. Their mothers were part of the Rockers traveling team that quickly won titles soon after its start-up in the early 1990s. They were hardly the definition of an “expansion team.” The Rockers won between 12 and 15 tournaments […]")
Now grown, Park Ridge’s original ‘Rocker’ soccer girls relive the big wins
Go to a Park Ridge youth game and you’ll likely meet an atypical soccer...
Things to do June 13-19 in Pioneer Press and Doings suburbs
Here are some other events occurring the week of June 13-19 in Doings and Pioneer...
![Another Arlington Heights trustee will exit the Village Board headed for the General Assembly, with Nicolle Grasse picked Wednesday to replace Mark Walker as state representative of the 53rd District. June 5 “I was grateful, surprised and humbled,” Grasse told Pioneer Press after being appointed. “It’s kind of surreal but I’m really excited to get started.” Democratic committee leaders from Wheeling, Maine, Palatine and Elk Grove townships met Wednesday June 5 at the Mount Prospect Public Library to question the six applicants who had been vying for the seat vacated by Arlington Heights Democrat Mark Walker after he was appointed […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_1231-rotated.jpg?w=66 "Another Arlington Heights trustee will exit the Village Board headed for the General Assembly, with Nicolle Grasse picked Wednesday to replace Mark Walker as state representative of the 53rd District. June 5 “I was grateful, surprised and humbled,” Grasse told Pioneer Press after being appointed. “It’s kind of surreal but I’m really excited to get started.” Democratic committee leaders from Wheeling, Maine, Palatine and Elk Grove townships met Wednesday June 5 at the Mount Prospect Public Library to question the six applicants who had been vying for the seat vacated by Arlington Heights Democrat Mark Walker after he was appointed […]")
Arlington Heights trustee to also serve as 53rd District state rep after being appointed to the post
Another Arlington Heights trustee will exit the Village Board headed for the General Assembly, with...
![A Chicago woman is facing felony DUI-related charges in the death of two northwest suburban teens who were hit by the woman’s car while the teens were changing a tire on the side of the road. According to court documents in the case, at around 3 a.m. Sunday, a pair of 18-year-olds were in a car that was driving westbound on Interstate 290, the Eisenhower Expressway, when the vehicle got a flat tire. They pulled over on the side of the road to repair the tire – with the hazard lights flashing – and were struck by another vehicle. A […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2021/10/04/CFUKVLP3CNDTXAMKINIK6M7LTE.jpg?w=135 "A Chicago woman is facing felony DUI-related charges in the death of two northwest suburban teens who were hit by the woman’s car while the teens were changing a tire on the side of the road. According to court documents in the case, at around 3 a.m. Sunday, a pair of 18-year-olds were in a car that was driving westbound on Interstate 290, the Eisenhower Expressway, when the vehicle got a flat tire. They pulled over on the side of the road to repair the tire – with the hazard lights flashing – and were struck by another vehicle. A […]")
Chicago woman facing DUI charges in deaths of recent grads from Rolling Meadows, Schaumburg high schools
A Chicago woman is facing felony DUI-related charges in the death of two northwest suburban...
![The annual Barrington Art Festival in historic downtown Barrington started with a ribbon cutting, opening the 15th year of the event that Rollin Potter, director of the Barrington Cultural Commission, called a “wonderful opportunity to meet artists from all over the country.” “A ribbon cutting symbolically opens the show and it’s just like a curtain rising at a performance,” said festival organizer Amy Amdur, of Highland Park, president of Amdur Productions, a fine arts festival company she founded in 1984. “And a festival is, in fact, a performance,” Amdur added. “The artists are the actors on stage and their craft […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PPN-BarringtonArt2024-6.jpg?w=132 "The annual Barrington Art Festival in historic downtown Barrington started with a ribbon cutting, opening the 15th year of the event that Rollin Potter, director of the Barrington Cultural Commission, called a “wonderful opportunity to meet artists from all over the country.” “A ribbon cutting symbolically opens the show and it’s just like a curtain rising at a performance,” said festival organizer Amy Amdur, of Highland Park, president of Amdur Productions, a fine arts festival company she founded in 1984. “And a festival is, in fact, a performance,” Amdur added. “The artists are the actors on stage and their craft […]")
Art festival in Barrington brings works of artists ‘from all over the country’
The annual Barrington Art Festival in historic downtown Barrington started with a ribbon cutting, opening...
![The Elk Grove Township Transportation Department is celebrating 50 years of bringing mobility and independence to senior and disabled residents, officials announced in a news release. According to the release, medical appointments, grocery stores, senior centers and errands are easier to get to thanks to the township bus service and Township Riders Initiative Program, or TRIP. “As we commemorate this milestone anniversary, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who have contributed to this invaluable service,” Elk Grove Township Supervisor George Busse stated in the release. Based in Elk Grove Village, the department provides 4,000 rides annually, the release states. […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AHP_Elk-Grove-Township-building.jpg?w=132 "The Elk Grove Township Transportation Department is celebrating 50 years of bringing mobility and independence to senior and disabled residents, officials announced in a news release. According to the release, medical appointments, grocery stores, senior centers and errands are easier to get to thanks to the township bus service and Township Riders Initiative Program, or TRIP. “As we commemorate this milestone anniversary, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who have contributed to this invaluable service,” Elk Grove Township Supervisor George Busse stated in the release. Based in Elk Grove Village, the department provides 4,000 rides annually, the release states. […]")
Elk Grove Township marking 50 years of ‘enhancing the lives of our residents’ by providing rides for seniors, disabled
The Elk Grove Township Transportation Department is celebrating 50 years of bringing mobility and independence...
![The inaugural “Lake Zurich Water Lantern Festival” drew more than 5,000 people to Henry J. Paulus Park recently, where the lighted crafts were launched into the beach waters and illuminated the night. “We’re really fortunate that this evening’s event had an overwhelming response,” Village Manager Ray Keller said about the May 18 event. According to the event organizers, One World Lantern Festival, the event was a multi-purpose one, including an opportunity to “experience … therapeutic power, where the serene setting and the act of releasing lanterns provide a unique space for emotional healing and rejuvenation.” It was to also offer […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PPN-LakeZurichLantern-23_41fe40.jpg?w=140 "The inaugural “Lake Zurich Water Lantern Festival” drew more than 5,000 people to Henry J. Paulus Park recently, where the lighted crafts were launched into the beach waters and illuminated the night. “We’re really fortunate that this evening’s event had an overwhelming response,” Village Manager Ray Keller said about the May 18 event. According to the event organizers, One World Lantern Festival, the event was a multi-purpose one, including an opportunity to “experience … therapeutic power, where the serene setting and the act of releasing lanterns provide a unique space for emotional healing and rejuvenation.” It was to also offer […]")
Lake Zurich held its first ‘Lantern Festival’ and launched the lighted crafts into the waters at Paulus Park
The inaugural “Lake Zurich Water Lantern Festival” drew more than 5,000 people to Henry J....
![Wheeling Township partnered with Harper Business Solutions to host a weeklong series of stakeholder engagement sessions — in person and virtually — that wrapped up Friday. According to a news release where the May 20 to May 24 meetings were announced, the effort was part of a larger community needs assessment that researchers at Harper, which is based at Harper College in Palatine and specializes in such work, are assisting the township with to identify gaps or deficits in mental health services and/or resources for community members. “The township is thrilled to be moving to this phase of the community […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/05/18/QV6LYRYR2FH3VFGP3PX74DWJEQ.jpg?w=135 "Wheeling Township partnered with Harper Business Solutions to host a weeklong series of stakeholder engagement sessions — in person and virtually — that wrapped up Friday. According to a news release where the May 20 to May 24 meetings were announced, the effort was part of a larger community needs assessment that researchers at Harper, which is based at Harper College in Palatine and specializes in such work, are assisting the township with to identify gaps or deficits in mental health services and/or resources for community members. “The township is thrilled to be moving to this phase of the community […]")
Wheeling Township assessing current mental health services, needs and looking to ‘strengthen’ offerings
Wheeling Township partnered with Harper Business Solutions to host a weeklong series of stakeholder engagement...