New Senator Sworn In | Murder Charged | Fake Tweet Promoted

Highland Park IL

18 October, 2020

1:46 PM

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Miss a day, miss a lot, so take a moment to catch up on some of the past week's headlines from across the North Shore. Johnson Replaces Link, Becomes 1st Black Senator From Lake County Adriane Johnson has another title. The Buffalo Grove community leader and resident, who currently serves as the commissioner of the Buffalo Grove Park District Board and president... Read more Man Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Brian Carrion On Howard Street An Evanston man charged with fatally shooting 20-year-old Brian Carrion near the Howard Street CTA Red Line station in July was arrested last week in Ohio, according to police.... Read more Deerfield TikTok Star Uses Platform To Help Kid With Brain Cancer In March, like many people, Abby Izaks was stuck in her house bored as her school was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 14-year-old Deerfield resident started making... Read more Fake Tweet Promoted By Pritzker-Funded 'Fair Tax' Committee A political action committee funded almost entirely by Gov. J.B. Pritzker spent at least $10,000 on an ad campaign to promote a fake tweet purportedly posted by Lake Forest billionaire... Read more Johnson Replaces Link, Becomes 1st Black Senator From Lake County Adriane Johnson has another title. The Buffalo Grove community leader and resident, who currently serves as the commissioner of the Buffalo Grove Park District Board and president... Read more D109 Reverts To Virtual Learning Amid Coronavirus Case Uptick With coronavirus cases on the rise, Deerfield Public Schools District 109 announced it is temporarily reverting to virtual learning starting Monday. The "difficult" decision was made... Read more Lake Forest Legend: Marion Lambert, The Ghost Of Sheridan Road Nearly 105 years after her body was found in the frozen woods off Sheridan Road near Lake Forest College, the fatal poisoning of Marion Lambert continues to inspire ghostly accounts... Read more H.H. Holmes' Wilmette Haunt Inspires Local Urban Legends While notorious serial killer H.H. Holmes spent little time at his Wilmette house, the "Devil in the White City" subject nonetheless inspired several local legends after his grisly... Read more Ghosts Of Graceland: Chicago Cemetery Filled With Haunting Tales After being closed for a month following a summer storm that brought down hundreds of trees, some graves and monuments, Chicago's famed Graceland Cemetery reopened Sept. 9. In all, nearly... Read more City Refuses To Release Records Of Discipline Imposed On Police In a letter to the Illinois Attorney General's Office last week, Deputy City Attorney Nicholas Cummings sought to justify the city's failure to provide records of discipline imposed... Read more Abbott's New Coronavirus Antibody Test Detects Recent Exposures The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization to a new type of COVID-19 antibody test blood test developed by Abbott Labs that can indicate if someone... Read more Hotel To Replace Rejected Northwestern University Polling Place After Northwestern University administrators refused to allow a polling place on campus for the Nov. 3 general election, a downtown Evanston hotel offered to step in. The... Read more Chinese-Americans Protest At Coronavirus Sign In Northbrook Calling the latest graffiti "hostile, hurtful and horrifying," local Chinese-Americans held a Saturday protest at the controversial "COVID Death Scoreboard" at Triangle Park in... Read more (Photo submitted) NORTH SHORE REAL ESTATE (Realtor.com) Frank Lloyd Wright's Final North Shore Home Sells For $2,075,000 The only Lake Forest home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sold last week, after about four months on the market, for less than 5 percent under its initial.... Read more LOCAL POLICE REPORTS (Jonah Meadows/Patch) Woman Spat On For Not Wearing Mask At Park; Cars Stolen: Blotter Waukegan Man Accused Of Escaping: Lake County BlotterPolitical Signs Stolen; Another DUI For Kenosha Motorist: BlotterSkokie Man Charged With Pair Of Restaurant Burglaries Woman Accused Of Felony Financial Exploitation: Blotter IN MEMORIAM North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 29 To Oct. 5 EARLIER: North Shore Week in Headlines, Oct. 4–Oct. 10: Pandemic Profiteering | High School Reopens | Unity March | Coronavirus Antibody Study | University Rejects Polling Place | American Legion Post Disbands ALSO ON PATCH Learn how to post events, letter and articles on Patch with a user accountLike us on Facebook: Evanston • Highland Park • Winnetka-Glencoe • Lake Forest • Deerfield • Northbrook • Glenview • Skokie • Wilmette-Kenilworth • Niles-Morton Grove For more local stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts or download the iPhone or Android app.