Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to welcome audiences back with UNDER THE STARS WITH HANDBAG: A Drive-In Festival – five fun and socially-responsible weekends of Handbag productions on a big outdoor screen! Featuring a different show each week, Handbag’s pop-up drive-in festival will play Fridays and Saturday from August 21 – September 19, 2020 at The Red Box Workshop, 4242 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. in Chicago, just west of the intersection of Pulaski and Bryn Mawr.

I believe it is vital to our collective sanity, indeed to our society as a whole, that theatre--that wonderful, communal crucible of imagination and emotion, of darkness and light, of language and laughter--should be ready to come back strong, to once again courageously confront our questions and fears, bring us back to a sense of ourselves and our community, and celebrate our resilience and fortitude after this challenging time apart. To borrow from that Shakespearean Dane, “The readiness is all.”

4,500 Square-Foot Gallery to Open in Chicago’s Wicker Park Neighborhood this Fall | Diverse Cohort of Artists Includes Jessica Matier, Garry Grant, Jill King, Gail Mancuso and More

The Munster Police Department would like to advise residents that the Munster Parks Department has adjusted the hours of Centennial Park to close at dusk.

Munster’s public schools will begin this Wednesday, August 12th and classes will begin at St. Thomas More School and St. Paul’s Lutheran School on Tuesday, August 18th.

Munster’s public schools will begin this Wednesday, August 12th and classes will begin at St. Thomas More School and St. Paul’s Lutheran School on Tuesday, August 18th.

Recently, the District 1 Law Enforcement Council honored a number of police officers from around the region for outstanding service.

Dance For Life 2020 is going virtual this year to continue offering the opportunity to support The Dancers' Fund. Each day from August 10-15, Chicago Dancers United will highlight several videos of DFL performances from the past 29 years on their website ChicagoDancersUnited.org, as well as their social media pages.

LAKE COUNTY- This morning (8/10/2020) at approximately 2:20 a.m., Trooper Griffin was patrolling near the intersection of Broadway and 48th St.  A silver Nissan Altima disregarded a stop light and as a result Trooper Griffin initiated a traffic stop. 

The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) will hold a 21-day public comment period on the draft MOVE NWI. The comment period begins today and will end August 30, 2020.