The Skokie Fire Department reminds residents not to park your vehicle over leaf piles! Dry leaves are very flammable and the heat from your vehicle's engine or exhaust system can start a car fire.

Public Works crews will continue collecting leaves raked into piles at the curb through December, weather permitting, sweeping through each neighborhood every five to seven days. Please also avoid blocking storm drains or sewer inlets with leaf piles. Click here for more fire prevention information.

Click here to see info on early voting at the Skokie Courthouse and other sites for the November 8, 2022 General Election, plus the Notice of Election, Specimen Ballots, Referenda Questions and Polling Places in both English and Spanish.

Click here for the early voting schedule at the Cook County Courthouse, 5200 Old Orchard Road. No early voting at Village Hall!

Click here for a complete list of Cook County early voting locations.

At the November 14 special Village Board meeting, a revised ESP will be reviewed and discussed that reflects the extensive community comments on the initial draft. The Village Board also will consider recommendations from the Sustainable Environmental Advisory Commission that include eliminating twice-weekly refuse collection in favor of a single weekly refuse collection and providing enhanced options for compostable materials such as food, paper and other types of organic waste. The revised draft is currently under development and will be posted on the home page of the Village website by Thursday, November 10.

The Village of Skokie is proud to announce that it has received the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting (PAFR Award) for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021. This is the first time that Skokie has received the PAFR award which encourages local governments to extract information from their annual comprehensive financial report to produce high-quality financial reports that are designed to be readily accessible and easily understandable to the general public and other interested parties without a background in public finance. Click here to view a copy of the FY21 PAFR along with the Village’s annual budget and other financial reports.

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (in Evanston, Illinois)

The final yard waste collection (plants material, small brush, etc.) will be on Wednesday, November 2. 

Click here for more information.

Leaf collection continues through December, weather permitting. Click here for more information on the Village's leaf collection program.

The Skokie Fine Arts Commission invites individual and group nominations for the 2022 Artistic Excellence Awards. The deadline is November 1, 2022.

Click here to see the online, interactive Artistic Excellence Award nomination form.

Past recipients include the Skokie Theater, Skokie resident and author Ellen Blum Barish, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band and more.

Click here for more information on the Village building permits.

Downtown Skokie was the place to be on Saturday, October 29! A record-setting estimated 2,500 people visited over sixty Downtown businesses and local sponsor organizations who gave out over 30,000 pieces of candy and other surprises up and down Lincoln Avenue, Oakton, Brown and Warren Streets.

With ‘Dueling DJ’s” on either side of Oakton Street, a “New for 2022” festive balloon photo op, the popular Skokie Police COPS vehicle and the Soul Good Mobile Café as added attractions, this year’s event was bigger and better than ever, thanks to the Skokie Chamber of Commerce and Industry, North Shore Community Bank & Trust, Print Xpress and the Village of Skokie as sponsors.

Special shout-out to the talented students at Skokie School District 69 Madison and Edison Elementary schools for their Halloween artwork that was proudly displayed in storefront windows. Many thanks to Skokie’s own Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Marketplace on Oakton Street, Target and Walmart Supercenter and neighboring Costco for donating so much candy handed out by Downtown Skokie merchants.

Please visit the Downtown Skokie Facebook page to check out more photos and videos from the event.

This summer, volunteers from the Village's Commission on Family Services and St. Paul Lutheran Church spent time at the Skokie Farmers' Market each week gathering leftover produce from vendors.

In addition, on one Sunday each month, Skokie residents were asked to donate food, clothing and toiletries and bring items to the market. Thanks to your support this year, over 5,800 pounds of food was donated to the Niles Township Food Pantry and 235 large bags of clothing was provided to the Niles Township Clothing Closet!

These Niles West students recently spent a Saturday morning cleaning litter from Skokie's Channel Park and other areas of the community.

The Wolfpack Gives Back!

Liam and Josef, who love all things about refuse and recycling trucks, brought the Skokie Public Works Refuse Division crew some Halloween treats yesterday.

Thanks, kids!

Here are Liam and Josef in the nifty recycling vehicle they made for their Skokie trick-or-treating adventures.

We think they look very official in their vests and hats!

The Skokie Farmers’ Market is excited to extend the season! Every Sunday through November 20, the market takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the west parking lot at Skokie Village Hall, 5127 Oakton Street. Be sure to check the Skokie Farmers' Market Facebook page for changes due to bad weather. No smoking or pets, please!

Here's what's going on this week:

Click here to subscribe to the Skokie Farmers' Market weekly email. They're on Instagram, too!

On November 10, 2022 at 6 p.m., the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), which includes the Skokie Swift Yellow Line, will hold a virtual public hearing on the agency's proposed FY2023 Budget.

Click here for more information on how to access the hearing, pre-register to make oral comments or submit written comments.

This fall, flu, COVID-19, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are hitting families and children at increasing rates. Pediatric hospital units are filled with children diagnosed with RSV, COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing, and flu illnesses and transmission are on the rise. 

The Skokie Health and Human Services Department strongly recommends that Skokie residents get their flu vaccine and the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The predominant flu variant is currently the H3N2 variant – which IS covered by this year’s flu vaccine. The Moderna Bivalent booster has added components to combat the most recent variants, including Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.

Please call Skokie HHS at 847/933-8252 today to schedule your annual flu shot. Please also visit Updates | Skokie, IL to schedule your Moderna Bivalent Booster today or visit www.vaccines.gov.