Principal promoted to superintendent

After serving as principal at River Grove Elementary School District 85.5 for five years, Glenn Grieshaber is the district’s new superintendent. After an outpouring of teachers and parents showed up at the school district’s April 24 board meeting in support of Grieshaber, the board decided …Read More

• Elmwood Park station gives away free gas — for one hour

  

  Grand Avenue at 75th Avenue was jam packed with cars on May 11. That’s because at Speed’s BP gas station, 7450 W. Grand Ave., in Elmwood Park, was giving away free gas. The deal lasted only an hour. Peter Spino, owner of the gas station, …Read More
• Elmwood Park Police Blotter, May 7-14
• East Leyden parking lot construction to begin

• Mob house tour shows origins in Oak Park, River Forest

  

  River Forest resident John Binder isn’t a gangster, but he sure knows a lot about the lives of some colorfully-named — and dead — local hoodlums, the mobsters who once lived in Oak Park and River Forest. Let’s see, there was Tony Accardo, Paul “the …Read More
• 2 area caterers compete on overhauled ‘Food Network Star’