Elk Grove Journal

07/05/2024

We were shooting photos of July 4th events yesterday and not at a computer, so here is your one-day-delayed Throwback Thursday photo of a human cannonball more than a decade ago at the Little Boots Rodeo in Elk Grove Village.

07/03/2024

When you see the RFK Racing NASCAR Elk Grove Village Makers Wanted Ford Mustang No. 6 in the NASCAR Chicago Street Race here's what you need to know about its driver/owner Brad Keselowski.

Brad Keselowski's Elk Grove Village-sponsored “Makers Wanted” Ford Mustang No. 6 ready to make the trip from the RFK Racing shop in North Carolina to Chicago for the NASCAR Chicago Street Race Sunday.(RFK Racing photo) After battling adversity in the form of rain in its first attempt last year, ...

07/03/2024

FormerElk Grove Township Elementary School Dist. 59 Board of Education Secretary Robert Mancilla. (CCSD59 photo) Elk Grove Township Elementary School Dist. 59 Board of Education Secretary Robert Mancilla resigned from his seat effective Friday (June 28), district officials announced in a press relea...

06/28/2024

Heavy damage at front of home on Wilshire in Elk Grove on Friday, June 28, 2024. (Tom Wessell/Journal photo) A 62-year-old Elk Grove Village resident lost her life due to a fire in her home in the 900 block of Wilshire Avenue just after midnight Friday. The victim was identified by Elk Grove Fire Ch...

06/26/2024

Smartphone. (NAPS stock image) When Elk Grove Township School Dist. 59 students return to class next fall, a new policy regarding cell phones -- to put them away for the duration of the school day -- will be in place. “For next school year, all junior high students are to store their cell phones i...

06/26/2024

Aligned logo Aligned Data Centers began constructing its new ORD-3 data center campus several months ago in the Elk Grove Innovation Park. Monday, company officials announced their data centers in the Phoenix and Chicago areas received the Green Globes certification for new construction from the Gre...

06/19/2024

Welcome your new Elk Grove Village Fire and Elk Grove Village Police deputy chiefs.

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson (center) speaks after administering the oath of office to Clint Cunz (right), as one of two deputy fire chiefs sworn in Tuesday as Fire Chief Richard Mikel looks on (left). The other deputy fire chief sworn in Tuesday was Todd Rishling. (Journal photo) Some big....

06/19/2024

The Marshall Plan with pickleball by parks passed at last night's village board meeting.

An Elk Grove Park District rendering of plans for Marshall Park, including six pickleball courts. (Image provided) Elk Grove Village trustees Tuesday (June 18) approved a special use permit modification for a planned unit development for Marshall Park, which adds six pickleball courts to the recentl...

06/19/2024

06/18/2024

A semi-trailer's load shifted on Busse Road at Landmeier, disabling it for 4 hours this morning. A tow truck responded but was not ultimately needed. (Photo submitted) A disabled semi-truck and trailer closed northbound Busse Road at Landmeier for four hours during the Tuesday morning rush hour. Dep...

06/13/2024

Contractors for Elk Grove Village will be performing asphalt rejuvenating maintenance work on streets resurfaced last year. Residential street work was scheduled to begin Wednesday, June 12 and on business park streets Saturday, June 15. Road crews will be applying a material called Reclamite Malten...

06/12/2024

Are you ready for some Elk Grove Village-sponsored racing?

Brad Keselowski driving the Elk Grove Village-sponsored Makers Wanted Ford Mustang No. 6, stops to change tires during the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Chicago Street Race.on July 6. (Photo by Kevin Bowman, submitted by the village of Elk Grove Village) Elk Grove Village officials are revving up their pro...

06/11/2024

Charges were announced late yesterday against an unidentified teen driver involved in last month's fatal crash at Meacham & Biesterfield roads.

A black Honda SUV involved in a fatal crash at Meacham and Biesterfield roads late Tuesday night, May 28, 2024. (Tom Wessell/Journal photo) A juvenile has been charged with reckless homicide, speeding and driving without headlights in the crash that killed a mother of five from Des Plaines in Elk Gr...

06/07/2024

The last beam is signed before being hoisted into place at a topping-off ceremony at the Prime Data Center construction site at Oakton Street and Busse Road on Thursday, May 30. (Photos submitted by the village of Elk Grove Village) Elk Grove Village officials joined Prime Data Center officials for....

06/07/2024

Logo for Elk Grove Village Pride event being held this year at the Pavilion from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22. Mayor Craig Johnson issued a Pride Proclamation late last month, and events are planned in and around Elk Grove Village this month celebrating the LGBTQ communities. The procla...

06/07/2024

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson When Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state’s budget into law, it included cutting a 1% grocery tax. Although that is a state tax, the state returned that 1% tax back to the municipalities where the grocery stores that generated the taxes are located. The way the s...

06/06/2024

The 53rd State House District has a new rep. sworn in last night, Arlington Heights Village Trustee Nicole Grasse replacing Mark Walker, who is now a state senator.

Nicole Grasse takes the oath of office as state representative of the 53rd District during a meeting Wednesday night, June 5, at the Mount Prospect Public Library. (Tom Robb/Journal photo) In listing some of her key issues, new state representative Arlington Heights Trustee Nicole Grasse pointed to....

06/04/2024

Newly Named State Sen. Mark Walker (D-27th), of Arlington Heights, (File photo) When Mark Walker was appointed to fill Anne Gillespie’s seat as 27th District state senator after Gov. JB Pritzker appointed Gillespie as head of the state insurance department, Walker's state house seat became vacant....

05/30/2024

The family of Jack Murray, 24, of Elk Grove Village filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Cook County Court on Wednesday (May 29) against the village and five “John Doe” police officers who responded to Murray’s parents’ home on Dec. 1, 2023. When the encounter was over, Jack Murray was dead, sh...

05/29/2024

Elk Grove Village Hall, also known as the Charles Zettek Municipal Complex, (Journal file photo) Elk Grove Village trustees approved the $6,150,000 purchase of three properties near the intersection of Touhy Avenue, Higgins and Elmhurst roads for future development at Tuesday’s (May 28) village bo...

05/29/2024

A black Honda SUV was involved in a fatal crash at Meacham and Biesterfield roads late Tuesday night. (Tom Wessell/Journal photo) The intersection of Biesterfield and Meacham roads was reopened to traffic at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday after a fatal crash involving two passenger vehicles, which the Cook Cou...

05/28/2024

An Elk Grove Village map showing where utility work is closing one lane of westbound Nerge Road. Elk Grove Village issued a traffic alert at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 saying westbound Nerge Road is reduced to one lane of traffic between Meacham Road and Wisconsin Lane because of an emergency sanitar...

05/23/2024

Elk Grove Park Board commissioners are expected to discuss pickleball at Marshall Park tonight (Thursday). Some neighbors are not on board with the plan. Here is a letter to the editor.

Editor, Journal:   Up until 2021, Marshall Park at 709 Chelmsford Ln. in Elk Grove Village. was always (for 50+ years) deemed a neighborhood park surrounded by a highly condensed residential and multi-family housing neighborhood on all four sides. It was not, nor ever meant to be a community park. ...

05/23/2024

Summer is nearly here.

Rainbow Falls. (Elk Grove Park District image) As much as Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, another sure sign in Elk Grove Village is the opening of the Rainbow Falls Waterpark this Saturday. Rainbow Falls, 200 Rev. Morrison Blvd., opens for the year with pre-season hours from 11:30 a....

05/22/2024

Renovations continue at former Elk Grove Township Fire Dept. station, as seen on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, south of Algonquin Road at Linneman Road. (Journal photo) A bill to dissolve the Elk Grove Rural Fire Protection District (EGRFPD), which ceased operating its fire department on the morning of...

05/17/2024

An Elk Grove Park District rendering for updates to Marshal Park which include pickleball courts. (Image provided) A $3 million Elk Grove Park District plan to install pickleball courts at Marshall Park is back on the table, expected to be voted on by Elk Grove Park Board commissioners at their Thur...

05/16/2024

The Elk Grove Township Food Pantry serves Mount Prospect and several other communities in the township. (Photo courtesy Elk Grove Township) Members of the Community Character Coalition of Elk Grove will be stationed outside the Jewel-Osco at Arlington Heights and Biesterfield roads on Saturday, May....

05/15/2024

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson announced the village and owners of Munchies pizzeria have “amicably reached an agreement” to terminate Munchies’ building lease — a move that could also provide for possible relocation assistance — at Tuesday’s village board meeting. Munchies has be...