Dempster after dark

Dempster Street, a main thoroughfare in Morton Grove and Niles, is quite colorful at night. Staff photographer Tamara Bell took a photographic tour May 15. …Read More

• Woman makes concrete career plans in Morton Grove family business

  

  Karen Johnson is a non-traditional traditionalist. In the traditional sense, she is carrying on the family business. But that business, Morton Grove-based Roughneck Concrete Drilling & Sawing Co., might not be what many would consider “traditional” for a woman — and her other vocation as …Read More

• He’s a Niles metal-money merchant — to coin a term

  In this challenging economic climate, business has still been pretty busy for Curt Franson, owner of the Niles Coin Shop, which has been operating in the village for more than 30 years. “Some people want to sell anything and everything,” Franson said. The Niles Coin …Read More

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