Skokie Stories

Meet the Kaplan family: Morry (Mick Weber), Sylvia (Cindy Gold), and Debbie (Tracey Kaplan, seated), a Jewish family just like any othe

Ok, I promise to make this short, but did 17 years pass already? This summer was like the cicada invasion all over again. What’s up with the not quite dead – yet not quite alive – cicadas that have littered our sidewalks this summer?

The Village of Skokie Fire Department recently received 22 bears to be used to console children suffering trauma. These bears were designed last fall by children who attended a community event at the Skokie branch of First American Bank.

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The All Skokie Photo Project invites you and other folks who make Skokie what it is today to have your portrait made for inclusion in the Skokie Historical Society's contemporary photography collection.  This portrait session is all about making real portraits of the real people of Skokie.

Niles West High School physics students swept the awards in Kepler's Astronomy Music Video contest.  The contest was open to any resident of the U.S.

Skokie's Commission of Family Services is a new forum on a wide range of issues concerning Skokie's most vulnerable citizens.  The group held its first meeeting in April.

The mission of the Family Services Commission includes facilitating improvements in the quality of life for Skokie's most vulnerable persons regardless of age, physical well-being, or socio-economic status through public information, education and advocacy. 

Serving on the commission is Skokie Public Librarian Gary Gustin, who manages the libr

IMODS recently forward $1,824 to the United Service Organization (USO) of Illinois raised in memory of Skokian Kraig Foyteck, killed in service in Iraq in 2006.

Altogether, $8,000 was raised to build a memorial commemorating  Foyteck, who attended local schools.

Our condolences to the family of Judge Harold Sullivan a long-time resident of Skokie and a key judge in the village's history.  Judge Sullivan died last month. 

Judge Sullivan was elected to the bench in 1960 and was the presiding judge of Cook County's 2nd Municipal District for more than 30 years. 

"If you were a judge, it was likely you knew Judge Sullivan," Gino
DiVito, a former appel