Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 18. Are schools closed? Is the post office open? Find out here.
Candidates running for City Council, school board and park board will participate in the League of Women Voters candidate debates today at the Highland Park Country Club.
Highland Park's sole movie theater in Renaissance Place may soon offer drinks to moviegoers.
Patch asks Highland Park residents to weigh in on President Obama's State of the Union address.
Patch readers and bloggers are discussing their opinions at length about the April vote to determine whether or not taxpayers will spend $89 million on Highland Park and Deerfield High Schools.
Upgrades to Highland Park's water treatment plant, which also supplies water to Deerfield and Lake Forest, are about to begin. The public is invited to a groundbreaking on Friday, Feb. 15 to kick off the two-year project.
As an exclusive agreement between the Highland Park City Council and a potential Highland Park Theatre developer nears its expiration, questions remain about the viability of the plan and the theater itself.
Pending court decision would take golf courses like Old Elm, Exmoor, Bob-O-Link and Northmoor off tax rolls and shift burden to all community taxpayers.
Filing for the 2012 tax season begins today.
In the 22 years since Nancy Bishop Langert's murder, her sister Jennifer Jenkins-Bishop has become a passionate control advocate.
A week after 26-year-old Highland Park native and internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, his supporters and family are seeking to change the way the government prosecutes the computer crimes he was charged with.
The Smashing Pumpkins' frontman put a 44-inch neon sign in front of his Highland Park tea house without permission from the city. The City Council okayed it on Monday.
The City Council approved expanding services at the Firehouse Youth Center to provide enhanced services to Highland Park area residents.
The cost of fire safety just doubled for hundreds of Highland Park businesses and residents.
Drivers will have to deal with major strip being under construction.
Teachers went on strike, a beach redesign was approved, taxes were raised and the city-owned Highland Park Theatre was shut down, all in 2012. Check out this year's top stories.
It will cost more to mail postcards and one ounce letters come Jan. 27, 2013.
Thursday's article about Highland Park officials working to help property owners fill downtown vacancies prompted a lengthy discussion about if and how the city should help promote business.
Two years ago, the Park District reduced its tax levy by 10 percent and hasn't changed since. Projects like Rosewood Beach will be funded through operational revenues and reserves.
The upgrade will be funded through a combination of bonds and will cost about $31 million. Construction is set to begin in January.
The City Council will likely hear more specific about that Alcyon has in mind for the shuttered downtown movie theater in January.
On Monday night, Sally Higginson was sworn in as a Highland Park City Councilwoman. She spoke with Patch about how her appointment came about and how she prepared for her first Council meeting.
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering outlines options the City Council is weighing to ensure that the city's culture is transparent and responsive to the City Council, residents and businesses.
The City Council voted on Monday to approve the Rosewood Beach redesign proposal. Construction is expected to begin next summer.
In a 4-3 vote, the Highland Park City Council narrowly passed a two percent tax hike.
The Park District of Highland Park served hot chocolate and provided families with a visit from Santa on its Polar Express Train Ride on the Metra.
With approval from the park board and two commissions, the Highland Park beach redesign goes before the City Council on Monday. If the council signs off on it, construction could begin next summer.
City Council candidates like Carolyn Cerf and Kim Stone have already kicked off their campaigns. They are running against Dan Kaufman, Alyssa Knobel, Bob Crimo and William Dytrych.
High school students offered opportunity to see firsthand how the the City of Highland Park serves the community.
New Chicago Bulls practice facility replacing Berto Center will be on Chicago’s west side.
The North Shore's music gem is in its fourth year of a 10-year agreement where it donates five percent of its ticket revenue to the city. More than $3 million has been donated to date.
A Highland Park rabbi wonders whether or not David Petraeus needed to resign from the CIA after news about his affair got out, while Lisa Barr wonders if marriages can survive adultery. What do you think?
Next week, the city offers residents a chance to see firsthand how its water plant provides safe, reliable drinking water to Highland Park.
At 8 p.m., Rep. Robert Dold's supporters were sure their candidate had the 10th Congressional race in the bag. An hour and 40,000 votes later, it all changed.
Steve Mandel's election to the Lake County Board leaves a four-month vacancy on the Highland Park City Council. Who will fill it?
The 4-1 approval brings the proposal, which still includes the controversial interpretive center, one step closer to getting built.
Check out our in-depth coverage of the results from the 10th Congressional District, the 58th IL House Race and the 29th State Senate.
A Highland Park High School student, a rabbi and the candidates themselves voice their opinions on today's election on Highland Park Patch. Check 'em out.
The Democratic candidate won with about a 5,000 vote lead.
Brad Schneider, the congressman elect from the 10th District, tells supporters the time to end partisanship and gridlock is at hand. Robert Dold tells supporters to 'stay engaged' in concession speech.