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Send story ideas, photos, news tips, questions and comments or just call us at 847-299-5511 or stop by 622 Graceland Ave., Des Plaines, Illinois. Save on the newsstand price! Get the Journal delivered to your home by calling 847-299-5511 or signing up at www.journal-topics.com. Ask about special rates! We value each and every advertiser gracing the pages of this newspaper. Help support local news and business while reaching the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

10/10/2025

Federal immigration enforcement activity has been reported in Niles this week, according to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and witness accounts.

10/10/2025

The Randhurst Village retail center in Mount Prospect is for sale in a deal expected to trade for roughly $100 million, making it one of the Chicago area’s largest possible retail transactions in recent years.

10/08/2025

Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to enter the annual Des Plaines Halloween Home Decorating Contest sponsored by the Des Plaines Friends of the Parks and the Journal & Topics. Over the last week, more and more Halloween decorations, most of them illuminated, have appeared in front of homes throughou...

10/08/2025

In 2021, around the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago historian Robert Hillmann released a book arguing that the infamous disaster was caused by Confederate sympathizers committing arson. In “The Great Chicago Fire: The Southern Rationale,” which he self-published on Amazon an...

10/08/2025

Two men and a juvenile were charged with attempted first-degree murder for a shooting that occurred on Nov. 10, 2024, in the 500 block of Dogwood Trail, Elk Grove Village police announced Monday, Oct. 6.

10/08/2025

Des Plaines’ proposed 2026 budget calls for an increase in its property tax levy, the hiring of three new firefighters, construction of a fourth fire station, increased spending for police and fire pensions, and $11 million for the rehabilitation of the former white marble bank building in the cit...

10/02/2025

Initial documents for a new 137,000 sq. ft. Costco Business Center and fueling station in the massive O’Hare Lakes office building complex have been submitted to the city of Des Plaines for review.

09/29/2025

A bread-making factory that will eventually employ as many as 150 workers is coming to Arlington Heights.

09/29/2025

Artist's rendering of memorial for victims of Agent Orange exposure to be unveiled next month at Lake Park in Des Plaines. Not long after waking up from heart surgery in 2022 at Condell Memorial Hospital in Libertyville, Craig Jacobs, a member of Des Plaines American Legion Post 36 and the local cha...

09/29/2025

A Utah-based developer in late July purchased the former Journal & Topics property and an adjacent parking lot in downtown Des Plaines from a local developer who had intended to build a six-story apartment building there. That sale could trigger a change in the type of development that will eventual...

09/24/2025

Glenview resident and first-time candidate Joseph Johnson announced his run as a Republican for the 55th District State House seat, currently occupied by State Rep. Marty Moylan, next year.

09/24/2025

Reports have put the number of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at 500 during their recently announced “Operation Midway Blitz” in the Chicago-area. An unknown number of those arrests have taken place in the North and Northwest suburbs.

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