

Broadview Hardware Store Debuts New Look
May 13, 2024
Christina Hamlin, right, took over ownership of what was then...


Meet Jeremiah Brownlee, Millennial Entpreneur And Maywood Pioneer
April 29, 2024
Jeremiah Brownlee, the owner of Legends Grill and Music Venue,...


Topgolf-style Entertainment Venue Proposed For Bushwood Site
April 17, 2024
The former Bushwood Bushwood Golf Practice Center, 30 Madison St....


Ironworkers Local 63’s ‘House Of Glass’ Nearing Completion
April 15, 2024
The Ironworkers (IW) Local 63 Training School’s "newest curtainwall and...


Hillside Soul Food Restaurant A Hit With Foodies
April 13, 2024
Nanetta Dancy-Matthews, the owner of Vari's Southern Cuisine in Hillside,...
Can Proviso Baseball Return To Its Glory Days?
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | May 13, 2024
Proviso West Assistant Baseball Coach Chip Carswell, Proviso East Head Baseball Coach Mike Woodard and West Head Baseball Coach Renard...
Westchester Recognizes Air Quality Awareness Week
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | May 6, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024 || By Michael Romain || michael@wearejohnwilk.com Last month, the Westchester village board passed a proclamation designating...
Big Changes Ahead For Bellwood’s 25th Avenue And St. Charles Road Corridors
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | May 2, 2024
A building at 2712 St. Charles Rd. in Bellwood to be demolished to make way for a mixed-use development. |...
New Permanent Supportive Housing Facility Opens In Broadview
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 29, 2024
Local and state elected officials along with Housing Forward representatives cut the ribbon on the nonprofit’s Broadview Legacy Apartments in...
STEM Training Center Coming To Maywood
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 21, 2024
Maywood Mayor Nathaniel George Booker, center, and Asia Ousley, Lumity’s director of community engagement and industry partners, third from left,...
Speaker Welch To Be Named Proviso Township Committeeman, House Dems Say
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 19, 2024
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch holds his first news conference after taking the Oath of Office to become speaker...
Broadview Gets $477K Federal Green Energy Grant
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 18, 2024
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson during the Cross-Community Climate Collaborative memorandum of understanding signing ceremony held at Triton College in River...
Loyola To Forgive $112M In Medical Debt
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 18, 2024
Loyola Medicine President and CEO Shawn Vincent, center, speaks at an April 15 news conference in Chicago to announce the...
West40 Updates Village Board On St. Joe’s Plans
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 18, 2024
Work trucks parked outside of St. Joe's on April 18. West40 is turning the former high school campus into a...
Illinois Launches New Online Notary Service
thevillagefreepress@gmail.com | April 18, 2024
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias pictured at a Democratic County Chairs' Association event in Springfield in 2021. | Jerry...
Karen Yarbrough, Unbossed, Embodied Tocqueville’s ‘Spirit Of Liberty’
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough administers a public lottery drawing on Dec. 11, 2023, to determine candidate ballot positions for Cook County races in the...
OPINION: My Vision For The Future
Kouri Marshall, a candidate running for the 7th Congressional District, during a town hall forum in February in Chicago's Austin community. | Paul Goyette Thursday,...
The Problem With The Democratic Party That’s Hiding In Plain Sight
Congressman Danny K. Davis, Kina Collins, Ashley Munson, Michael Romain, Kouri Marshall and Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin at a Feb. 24 town hall forum at Second...




