The Latest Breaking News from Skokie

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 · Aug 26, 2022

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 23, 2022

Fourth of July parades, festivities in other suburbs canceled after Highland Park mass shooting

Evanston, Skokie, Deerfield, Glencoe, Winnetka and Morton Grove were among those canceling Independence Day festivities.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 4, 2022

Illinois mall shooting suspect taken into custody, police say

CHICAGO — The subject of a nationwide arrest warrant has been taken into custody Wednesday in connection to the fatal shooting of a Skokie man and the wounding of a 15-year-old girl in a mall in Rosemont, police said.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 31, 2022

Skokie man charged after cops find over $100,000 in drugs, cash at home

Officers searched 26-year-old Said Mahdi’s home Friday and uncovered $42,150 in cash, along with cocaine, cannabis, opioid painkillers and Xanax. Mahdi emigrated from Iraq during the U.S. occupation of the country.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 27, 2022

Amazon closings its bookstores, 4-star shops and pop-ups in the US, UK

Amazon has a bookstore in Lake View, 4-star shops in Oak Brook and Skokie, and a pop-up in Skokie.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 2, 2022

Skokie has moved the bar significantly for bird-strike mitigation

The Village of Skokie intends to use the Carvana tower project as a pathway to writing a local ordinance that may be a model for other communities.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 13, 2022

Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, founder of Skokie synagogue for deaf people that welcomed all, dead at 76

Among his students at Congregation Bene Shalom, the Reform Jewish synagogue he established half a century ago, he helped Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin study for her bat mitzvah.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 10, 2022

Proposal for Skokie tower shows buildings aren’t safe enough for birds | Editorial

Throughout the Chicago area, too few rules are in place that require buildings to be avian-friendly.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 10, 2022

Skokie man shot and killed on driveway in Park Ridge

Officers responded to call of gunfire Tuesday evening and found the man lying on a driveway in the 200 block of North Grace Avenue, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 9, 2022