Once a wall of buckthorn, now a haven for native species

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 1:39 PM

The banks above the Des Plaines River following Riverside Road between Olmsted Road and the start of Miller Woods are lush with milkweed, native sedges, wild rye and wildflowers. 

Brookfield to welcome four new police officers

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 1:37 PM

The Brookfield Police Department is about to get some much-needed reinforcements in the form of four new patrol officers who will soon be graduating from the police academy.

Riverside woman's uncle, lost at Pearl Harbor, to be buried

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 1:29 PM

Riverside resident Gretchen McCarthy was just a toddler when her uncle, Eugene Eberhardt, died. She had no memory of the 29-year-old from Chester, New Jersey, who had enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was a machinist's mate first class aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941.

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Local police begin Labor Day traffic crackdown

Friday, August 16th, 2019 1:20 PM

The North Riverside and Riverside police departments have begun stepping up traffic enforcement patrols as Labor Day approaches as part of the Illinois Department of Transportation's grant-funded Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign to combat impaired driving.

Free kids' admission at Brookfield Zoo from Aug. 5 to 7

Thursday, August 1st, 2019 1:51 PM

Brookfield Zoo will be offering free admission to kids 11 and under on Aug. 5, 6 and 7 in partnership with a couple of corporate sponsors, who will be sponsoring family-friendly healthcare-related activities and snacks in the Pavilions and elsewhere in the park.

Local congressman present during Gilroy shooting

Monday, July 29th, 2019 5:37 PM

U.S Congressman Daniel Lipinski, whose 3rd District includes the southern half of Brookfield and a tiny portion of Riverside, was among those who were present when a 19-year-old man armed with an assault-style rifle began firing into the crowd at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, on the evening of July 28.

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