Mount Prospect
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Festivals June 14-20: Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Libertyville Days, Grayslake Craft Beer Fest and moreJun 11, 2024 8:48 am - Mark your calendars for the 38th Annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Taste of Des Plaines, Libertyville Days, Grayslake Craft Beer Fest, Downers Grove Rotary GroveFest and more happening this week.
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‘They were skeptical’: Hersey grad found niche at VillanovaJun 10, 2024 6:00 am - Hersey graduate Jack Fredian recently ran the 11th-fastest time in Villanova history in the 10,000 meters.
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Mount Prospect to host Mental Health Matters eventJun 09, 2024 8:51 pm - Mount Prospect’s Human Services Department announced that the 4th Annual Mental Health Matters community event will be held from 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 14 at the Edwin & Elsie (Meyn) Busse “Pocket Park” at Busse Avenue and Emerson Street.
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Porch swing project sets up Prospect High School URise students for successJun 07, 2024 4:41 pm - In a world with ever-increasing speed, immediacy and instant gratification, the value of the process, working towards a goal over a long period of time, can get lost.
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Two new principals to start the school year at Field and Twain schools in WheelingJun 07, 2024 4:34 pm - Two new principals will start the school year at Field and Twain elementary schools in Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 following their recent hirings that formally take effect July 1.
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‘Flying salt shakers of death’: Fungus that creates so-called ‘zombie cicadas’ poses challenge as emergence continuesJun 07, 2024 1:07 pm - A fungus infecting some periodical cicadas is replacing their back ends with a chalky mass of spores.
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Summer camp offers a safe place of healing for burn survivorsJun 06, 2024 10:38 pm - For the past 33 years, Camp I Am Me by Illinois Fire Safety Alliance has helped young burn survivors throughout Illinois by providing a place of acceptance and healing at its yearly Summer Camp.
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Legal wrangling over odor complaints in Mount Prospect drags onJun 06, 2024 8:16 pm - The legal whirlpool involving the Village of Mount Prospect, Prestige Feed Products and the residents surrounding the Mount Prospect animal feed plant continues to swirl.
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Over 1.2M rechargeable lights are under recall for fire hazards, following one reported deathJun 06, 2024 2:51 pm - NEW YORK — More than 1.2 million rechargeable lights are under recall in the U.S. and Canada following a report of one consumer death. According to a Thursday notice from...
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Mount Prospect mulling forcible annexations south of village borderJun 05, 2024 4:31 pm - Some owners of industrial and commercial property in unincorporated Elk Grove Township could be paying more in property taxes if Mount Prospect forcibly annexes 36 properties to its south.