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Worth limits number of signs on businesses
Signs that are attached to businesses in Worth will undergo a makeover. A lengthy discussion took place during the Worth Village Board meeting Tuesday night addressing a dilemma that trustees said had to be addressed. An ordinance was drawn amending previous sign regulations of businesses in the village. Trustees had...
Clear-Ridge Reporter and NewsHound July 3, 2024
Spread the loveBy Joe Boyle Signs that are attached to businesses in Worth will undergo a makeover. A lengthy discussion took place during the Worth Village Board meeting Tuesday night addressing a dilemma that trustees said had to be addressed. An ordinance was drawn amending previous sign regulations of businesses in the village. Trustees had…
3 Chicago suburbs rank on report America's ‘Wealthiest Suburbs'
Three Chicago suburbs were just ranked among the wealthiest suburbs in the country, with two of them nestled along the glitzy North Shore of Lake Michigan. The new report, from GoBanking Rates, looked at all cities in the United States with 5,000 or more households and isolated the 50 cities with the highest average income. It also took into account the typical home value for 2024 and metro area to help determine and rank a list of the 50 wealthiest suburbs in America, editors said.
Taste of Chicago was long held in July. Here's why it won't be this year
The annual Taste of Chicago food festival was a longheld July tradition in the city, until recently. The festival is now being held in September, largely due to two major events happening in Chicago for July and August -- and it's not the only festival to see changes. The events...
Illinois fireworks: Full list of Chicago, suburban fireworks shows, parades for July 4
While Chicago's Navy Pier fireworks took place Wednesday, there are still plenty of suburban fireworks shows and parades set to take place on July 4, with some celebrations set to take place over the weekend. Here's a full list of fireworks shows and parades scheduled for Independence Day and Fourth...
Chicago area celebrates July 4 with parades in Hyde Park and Arlington Heights, cookouts, fireworks
Across the city, from downtown to the neighborhoods, and throughout the suburbs, people celebrated Independence Day Thursday.The 32nd annual 53rd Streete Parade in Hyde Park brough the diverse neighborhood together. It was founded by Nancy Stanek and Joan Steggemann to as a way to help businesses and began with just a few dozen people.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch"We had maybe four instruments that we rented out from some place, so it was a little rag tag group marching down the street," Stanek recalled.Cook County Board President marches every year dressed up as the Statue of...
NASCAR hosts interactive day for Chicago kids ahead of street race
CHICAGO - Excitement is revving up for NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race, which rolls into town this weekend!. Set for Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 7, it will serve as the centerpiece of Chicago’s Fourth of July festivities – but the fun has already begun. In celebration...
“They had to literally run for their actual lives.” - McCook Lake mom details escape from Penrose Drive home
MCCOOK LAKE, S.D. (KTIV) - A blissful weekend with her kids for a McCook Lake mom ended in an instant as floodwaters rushed in. ”I looked at the time on my phone. And it was 7:26 p.m. at that point, I believe. So from the time that my kids friend mom called me at 7:14 p.m., when I hung up with her. I believe it like 7:20 p.. It was like six, seven minutes, we were out. We had to be out.”
Dry, warm, humid for Independence Day in Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mostly dry today for Fourth of July festivities. There's a minor chance of an afternoon shower or storms in the afternoon and evening. There are better chances for scattered showers and storms to arrive by night (after the fireworks). Pleasant weather for the weekend. Saturday and Sunday in the 80s. The next rain chance develops late Sunday into Monday. Seasonable temperatures in the 80s continue for next week.What to expect for ThursdayStray storms, warm and humid. High of 86Chance of showers tonight Possible showers and rumbles of thunder overnight. Low of 71Showers for FridaySCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDER HIGH: 81
With nests on telephone poles, once-endangered osprey are flying high in Cook County
Wildlife biologist Chuck Rizzo climbs into what looks like an enormous white bucket and slowly begins to rise. The metal arm of an aerial lift truck propels him higher and higher, above thick underbrush and then even some treetops, toward a striking sight in an otherwise ordinary Cook County forest preserve: a sturdy, stick-strewn platform built on top of a 50-foot telephone pole. “How is it?” ...
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