Jennifer Johnson
Journalist at Park Ridge Herald-Advocate
Writer/editor. Recovering journalist. “I got God with me and He’s telling me things.”
Articles
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chicagotribune.com | Jennifer Johnson
Glenview native Oliver Talukder, who plays oboe for the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, is musically inspired by everyone from Lady Gaga to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His closest brush with celebrity, however, came when he recently won a recording contract from the son of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Talukder won the 2025 Emerging Artist Competition, hosted in May by Chicago-based Cedille Records, founded in 1989 by James Ginsburg, and the Zell Family Foundation.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Jennifer Johnson
The village of Glenview is the latest suburb to actively prepare for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. It joins Skokie, Evanston, Glencoe and Wilmette and others which have taken similar steps. The Glenview Village Board took action earlier this month meant to remove potential barriers to developing EV (electric vehicle) infrastructure, village officials said.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jennifer Johnson
The village of Glenview is the latest suburb to actively prepare for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. It joins Skokie, Evanston, Glencoe and Wilmette and others which have taken similar steps. The Glenview Village Board took action earlier this month meant to remove potential barriers to developing EV (electric vehicle) infrastructure, village officials said.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jennifer Johnson
Family and friends of Marko Niketic gathered Monday, May 13 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Glenview teen’s death in a car crash just days before he was scheduled to graduate high school. More than 200 people—many of them former classmates and friends of Niketic—came together at the expansive memorial that has stood for the last year along the south side of East Lake Avenue at Meadow Lane.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jennifer Johnson
In the historic election for mayor of Skokie, candidate David “Azi” Lifsics spent big dollar amounts and garnered big-name endorsements. When Election Night was over, though, he had lost to candidate Ann Tennes, who spent only a fraction of what he had shelled out. Her winning formula in the April 1 race? Twenty years’ worth of community involvement, volunteer service and face-to-face connections in the suburb of about 67,000.
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