After running roughshod over the Illini West League in the tiering round, Maine Township may have taken their collective foot off the proverbial gas. Through the first 16 games of their league season, Maine went 14-2. But then came along the Gold Division seeding of the Illini West schedule featuring the likes of Hinsdale Central,
North Maine Fire Station. More than 100 firefighters from nine area fire departments battled a blaze shortly before 8 a.m. Friday (Dec. 2) for nearly an hour inside a home in the 9600 block of Redding Circle on Lake Maryanne in unincorporated Maine Township near Des Plaines. North Maine Fire District Chief Nick Rusz said
Providing a tour of the Family Resource Center on Nov. 17 were (from left) Angelica Schab, director of the Dist. 63 Family Resource Center, Flora Modh, Dist. 63 Family Resource Center parent and community liaison, and Erin Sterling, Dist. 63 director of English learning and bilingual service. (Tom Robb/Journal photo) A tour of the Family
Maggie Trevor On election night Nov. 8, Democrat Maggie Trevor trailed Republican Matt Podgorski in the race to become the next commissioner of Cook County’s 9th District. But mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day continued to be counted until Tuesday, Nov. 22. Those vote totals now show Trevor as victorious in the tight contest. Trevor
Niles-Maine District Library One day after the Tuesday, Nov. 15, start of the Illinois General Assembly fall veto session in Springfield, a bill introduced by State Sen. Laura Murphy (D-28th) to “fix” legislation she passed into law last spring allowing Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White to fill extended vacancies on library district boards passed