Niles Journal

12/09/2025

Talks are happening to restore Village of Niles Free Bus service, which has been suspended since September.

Niles Mayor George Alpogianis and village officials reviewed a draft agreement sent from Pace Suburban Bus officials on Monday (Dec. 8) that could end the village’s suspension of the Niles Free Bus service that took place in September.

12/08/2025

One more private event this month, and White Eagle Banquets is done, after 60 years.

“End of an era, saying goodbye to a Niles landmark,” the headline on Victoria Banquets' website said. “For over 60 years, the White Eagle has been an iconic gathering place for the Polish community of Niles and surrounding Chicago suburbs.”

12/03/2025

If last weekend seemed like a lot of snow in Niles, it was actually historic.

Snow totals measured between six and 11 inches during the long snowfall from the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Nov. 29, into Sunday, Nov. 30. In Niles, public works crews began 12-hour shifts, plowing and treating roads late Friday night.

11/29/2025

At Niles annual Holly Jolly tree lighting festivities at Golf Mill Park.

11/28/2025

Niles Fire Department firefighters and those from other communities responded to an external fire at the Miraj restaurant and club early this morning (Friday) at Milwaukee and Dempster.

Niles firefighters led a briefly-elevated alarm response to a fire at the Miraj Restaurant at Milwaukee Avenue and Dempster Street that was confined to the building’s ventilation systems and related heating and kitchen hood systems, officials said. No injuries were reported.

11/26/2025

Check out the art installation in the NVision Gallery by veterans, free and open in the Niles Family Fitness Center through January. See our photo gallery. With thanks to Marina Samovsky

Memory Triggers, a new exhibition featuring photos, paintings and other works primarily from the Vietnam War, opened to a good-sized crowd, including Niles Mayor George Alpogianis, in the NVision Gallery space at the Niles Family Fitness Center on Thursday, Nov 20. The show marks the first time a gr...

11/25/2025

Who's ready for Holly Jolly? It's Saturday in Niles.

Niles will ring in the holiday season with the Holly Jolly Festival and Tree Lighting from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, in Golf Mill Park, 9010 Greenwood Ave.

11/21/2025

Niles firefighters extinguished a fire that engulfed the cab of a garbage truck in an alley off Oketo near Oakton before 8 am this morning.

Flames reached above the roofline of nearby homes as the cab of a garbage truck burned in an alley off Oketo Avenue near Oakton Street in Niles on Friday (Nov. 21). Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 7:18 a.m.

11/20/2025

2 new restaurants opened in Niles.

Two new restaurants recently held ribbon-cutting ceremonies with the Niles Chamber of Commerce: Hello Shawarma, 5606 W. Touhy Ave., on Wednesday, Nov. 12, and Magic Pepper, 8502 W. Golf Rd. on Oct. 27.

11/17/2025

We have some updated information on that Dempster Street fire that displaced 6 families last week.

The investigation continues into last Wednesday’s (Nov. 12) fire that displaced six Niles families, although fire officials say arson is not suspected.

11/14/2025

A crash took the life of a pedestrian right in front of Maine East High School in Park Ridge this morning. Eastbound Dempster and northbound Potter are both closed.

The body of an older man lay covered by a blue tarp in front of the Maine East High School sign, inches away from the front of a gray four-door sedan Friday morning (Nov. 14) in Park Ridge.

11/14/2025

A car flipped yesterday in a Golf Mill parking lot, no injuries reported.

A Dodge Durango carrying four young adults flipped onto its side Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 12) in the parking lot of Golf Mill Shopping Center, but none of the occupants were injured, officials said.