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Skokie's Fourth of July parade will kick off at noon, with live bands and the 3-D Fireworks Festival at Niles West HS...

Two re-elected board members were welcomed back for new six-year terms...

Devonshire Playhouse presents the popular Cole Porter musical 'Anything Goes,' June 8-16...

Skokie’s Tot Learning Center has taken first lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ program very seriously...

District lifeguard staff was awarded the 5-Star Award in Risk Management and Rescue Preparedness, the highest award given...

The English Beat, The Steepwater Band and Tributosaurus becomes Kool & The Gang will headline Skokie’s Backlot Bash main stage, August 23-25...

The Skokie Park District was recently awarded a ‘2013 Exceptional Workplace Award’ by the Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA)...

After 33 years, the oldest and largest wiffleball tournament in the world is moving to Skokie...

Emily Vanderkamp was recently hired as the new facility manager of the Skokie Park District's Weber Leisure Center...

Public Research Group (PRG), in association with GreenPlay, was retained in 2012 by the Skokie Park District to aide the district in the establishment of priorities for future capital improvements, programs and recreational services. The final report is now available...

For the eleventh time since 1998, the Golf Range Association of America...

Nicor Gas has begun a two -year environmental clean-up project at the site of a former Skokie manufactured gas plant, located on property southwest of McCormick Boulevard and Oakton Street...

The district's Skatium Ice Arena has been voted the winner of the 2013 Outstanding Facility & Park Award for large park district "renovations to an existing facility," by the Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA)...

Jon Marquardt, CPRP, was named the new assistant superintendent of recreation for the district, today...

As part of a recent Skokie Park District administrative reorganization, Michelle Tuft was appointed as superintendent of recreation & facilities and Mike Rea was named superintendent of parks...

John Ohrlund takes the helm as the award-winning district’s new executive director...

The Village recently honored the Skokie Park District as an "excellent partner..."

Skokie residents of all ages will enjoy the new outdoor court, recently constructed at Oakton Park...

Emily Oaks Nature Center Manager Lee Hansen won the Illinois Park and Recreation Association’s ‘2012 Excellence in Environmental Leadership Award’...

Park Specialist II Dan Payne recently won both the "Outstanding Park Employee" and "Ralph Voris Community Service" Awards...

After a $5 million summer renovation, the Skatium Ice Arena is back and better than ever...

The Talking Farm—“the farm with something to say”—now also has something to grow and someplace special to grow it...

The Skokie Park District was recently named a 2009 recipient of...

Steve Glickman, the Skatium Ice Arena’s supervisor of hockey.was recently named to the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame...

You can now post and view park district photos taken by Skokie area residents...

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