The Northbrook Historical Society sponsored a neighborhood festival featuring old fashioned fun for kids of all ages.

A team of four volunteers gathered behind Congressman Mark Kirk's Northbrook Office at 707 Skokie Blvd. Sept. 3 to load donations for Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Ike victims into a moving van.

In Glenview, the place to be for fun June 28 was at the 35th annual Glenview Summer Festival.

The Highland Park Senior Center hosted a "Spanish Fiesta" at the Highland Park Country Club, and the only thing missing was a bullfight.

Dozens of excited spectators gathered on the bank of the Northbrook River June 24 to watch 1,850 yellow rubber ducks float downstream as part of the Northbrook Rotary Club's sixth annual Rotary Riverchance.