Niles Village Hall. The Journal endorses Niles village trustees Dean Strzelecki and Craig Niedermaier, along with Morgan Dubiel and Marryann Warda, in the Tuesday, April 4 election for Niles Village Board. The four bring a diverse set of perspectives and experience to the village board. Strzelecki and Niedermaier have performed well in their roles as
Niles Night of Roses 2023 Bob Wordell Living Legend Award winner Joanne Cwynar. (Photo submitted) Niles Chamber of Commerce officials named their 2023 Bob Wordel Living Legend Award winner and opened voting in other categories for awards that will be presented at the Niles Night of Roses banquet Friday, April 21. The Living Legend Award
Niles-Maine District Library Board President Carolyn Drblik (left) and long time library attorney Dennis Walsh at a July 2021 library board budget hearing. (Tom Robb/Journal photo) The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Bureau issued a 10-page letter of determination Monday, March 20 saying Niles-Maine District Library Board President Cariolyn Drblik violated the Illinois Open Meetings
Municipalities' ethics boards often can't investigate mayors because mayors appointed their members. Niles is trying a new tack, an elected ethics board, but it have only advisory powers, like most appointed ethics boards.
Editor, Journal: At the February meeting of the Niles-Maine District Library Board, resident Steve Folga a candidate in the upcoming library trustee election gave a public comment in which he made wildly inaccurate statements about the library's Polish collection. We would like to address a few of them. First, he criticized our having