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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.

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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.

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‘He just wanted to be a kid.’ Three charged with killing 9-year-old and wounding 6-year-old brother in ‘targeted’ Skokie shooting

Skokie police didn’t say who the three were targeting, noting that several family members were inside the home at the time.

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Kunio Hagio, ‘face man’ artist who created famed ‘Raging Bull’ movie poster, dead at 74

‘You cannot remember the film without first remembering the poster,’ artist Dawn Baille says of the depiction of Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the Martin Scorsese film.

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9-year-old boy killed, another young boy wounded in Skokie shooting

Police said detectives were conducting a homicide investigation, adding that the circumstances of the shooting were unclear.

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Rainbow Cone shines up north, too

The treat once exclusive to Beverly continues its march across the Chicago area, opening a Skokie branch Wednesday.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A surprise claim to Fame for Skokie native David Gutfreund

Bet on it: Induction into National Horseplayers Championship Hall of Fame a validation for longtime bettor

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‘Doll Lady’ Merle Glickman, a ‘trusted expert’ who collected thousands, has died at 78

From squishy Cabbage Patch cuties to manikins made of antique porcelain, the Skokie resident appraised, repaired, bought, sold and collected dolls as old as the 18th century.

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