Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Skokie

Chicago Public Defender's Claim Over Displaying Photo with Israeli Flag and Gun Can Go Forward

Office leadership allegedly "told Gassman's supervisors that the photo was 'comparable to a Nazi swastika.'"

Reason

CTA Yellow Line reopens after crash, commuters happy service has resumed

The Yellow Line, which connects north suburban Skokie to the city via the CTA, reopened to commuters Friday after a train collided with a snowplow on the tracks in November.

Chicago Sun-Times

Success is a journey

Judge Lauren Edidin marked her retirement at a ceremony for graduates from Skokie Mental Health Court. And four more people were celebrated for exiting the criminal justice system.

Chicago Sun-Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Skokie man facing additional charges in north suburban bomb threats

Jacob Spiro, 23, who was previously charged with making threats in several communities, is accused of making threats against Evanston Public Library and a McDonald’s.

Chicago Sun-Times

Making the holiday trains: How CTA decks the L’s at Santa’s Skokie workshop

It takes three months to ready the festive rail cars, which will start picking up passengers Nov. 24.

Chicago Sun-Times

Big Chicago contingent at March for Israel rally in Washington

Chicago native Rachel Goldberg, whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin is held by Hamas, spoke at the rally. ‘We hostage families have lived the last 39 days in slow motion torment.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Jewish community in Skokie raises fears after Israeli yard signs stolen, torn up

Multiple houses on several blocks were targeted overnight with their pro-Israel signs vandalized and stolen.

Chicago Sun-Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Hate crime, aggravated battery charges filed after crowd maced at pro-Palestinian protest outside Israeli solidarity event in Skokie

Zevulen Ebert, 33, was charged after he allegedly sprayed mace into a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters Sunday in Skokie.

Chicago Sun-Times

No charges for man who fired gun in the air near pro-Palestinian protesters in Skokie

Prosecutors said the 39-year-old man, who they declined to name, had no criminal history and acted in self-defense.

Chicago Sun-Times

Shot fired, crowd maced at pro-Palestinian protest outside Israeli solidarity event in Skokie

The melee unfolded when protesters demonstrated outside an event called to show solidarity with Israel at a banquet hall in Skokie near the border with Lincolnwood Sunday evening. In addition to protestors, a Chicago police officer and a Sun-Times reporter were hit by pepper spray.

Chicago Sun-Times

No credible threat following conversation between Skokie students about bomb and synagogue: cops

Two Niles North students talking online sparked a police investigation that was unfounded, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Skokie man accused of making bomb threats in northern suburbs

Jacob Spiro, 23, is accused of making bomb and violent threats in Glenview, Morton Grove, Niles and Skokie.

Chicago Sun-Times

Westfield Old Orchard owner finds retailers to fill old department store

Home furnishings store Arhaus and fashion brand Zara are expected to open in the former Lord & Taylor spot at the Skokie mall in 2024.

Chicago Sun-Times

Downstate man gets 4 1⁄2 years for assaulting officer on Jan. 6, still faces murder charges in Skokie woman’s death

The case against Shane Woods, of downstate Auburn, began as one of the more serious cases against an Illinois resident stemming from the Capitol attack.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

Henry ‘Hank’ Obrzut, who ran the Skokie Hairem beauty salon with his family, dead at 87

His wife Joanne also did hair. Their sons swept up. Their daughter did makeup. Many relatives and friends worked there during the 25 years the family operated the business.

Al Jazeera

World premiere play spotlights US Assyrian diaspora community

Martin Yousif Zebari unveils his first play, a look at family dynamics in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

Chicago Sun-Times

Skokie artist taps social media following to help earthquake victims in Turkey, Syria

Syed Rahman, in his own words, talks about why he rushed to offer aid: “Everyone’s displaced.”

Chicago Sun-Times

At Skokie Jewish center, this mural by the ‘Pop Art Rabbi’ aims to convey the essence of a ‘mitzvah’

“There is public art in Skokie and Chicago,” says the Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie rabbi who tapped his friend Rabbi Yitzchok Moully to create the mural. “But there isn’t Jewish public art. And that’s what I wanted.”

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. Capitol rioter made suicidal comments before crash that killed Skokie woman

A new report offers insight into the state of mind of Shane Woods, who crashed head-on into two cars on I-55 on Nov. 8, killing a Skokie woman. Woods pleaded guilty to committing assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Chicago Sun-Times

At 18, Skokie oboist Zach Allen is pushing past a stroke and on, he hopes, to a big career

The Niles West High School senior has played Carnegie Hall and some of Europe’s great concert venues. But his biggest accomplishment is playing at all after his stroke in July.

Chicago Sun-Times

Skokie woman mourned after fatal crash with US Capitol rioter, Quinn skips mayor’s race and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Skokie’s LanzaTech a finalist for climate change award

The company is in the running for an Earthshot Prize, sponsored by Britain’s Prince William.

Chicago Tribune

Actress Sharon Stone tweets support of Illinois Holocaust Museum in antisemitic climate

CHICAGO — Hollywood actress Sharon Stone is again boosting the work of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie on social media.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bloomingdale’s to close Old Orchard store

The company plans to open a smaller format, called Bloomie’s, in the upscale Skokie mall.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois abortion providers see demand, wait times rise a month after Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade

That’s as surrounding states restrict abortion rights “So we have waves of people then trying to find out: Where can I go?” says Melissa Grant of Carafem, whose Skokie clinic has seen in-person visits rise by 130% over 2021.

1 2

People

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Chicago Transit Authority

21 stories

Arhaus

14 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.