Vote for the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park!
The Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park has been selected as a finalist in the What Makes Your Place Great? Your Secret Corner of Chicago contest sponsored by Placemaking Chicago.  The winners will be featured in an exclusive Chicago Architecture Foundation tour this fall.  To cast your vote:

1. Visit www.placemakingchicago.com
2. Click on "What Makes Your Place Great?" contest
3. Click on "Vote for your favorite entry"
4. Click on the dot above the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
5. Scroll to the bottom and click on the "vote" button

Vote early and please ask your Skokie friends and neighbors to vote, too.

Labor Day Refuse, Recycling and Yard Waste Schedule
Due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 6, 2010, no refuse or recycling collection will take place that day.  The collection schedule is as follows:

Labor Day Refuse Collection Schedule:
Monday collection on Tuesday, Tuesday collection on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday collections unchanged.
Labor Day Recycling Collection Schedule:
Monday collection on Tuesday, Tuesday collection on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday collections unchanged.
Labor Day Yard Waste Collection Schedule:
Pre-scheduled yard waste collection can be requested for Thursday, September 9, for those residing north of Greenleaf Street and pre-scheduled requests for Friday, September 10, for those residing south of Greenleaf Street.  Residents may schedule a collection for Thursday, September 9 or Friday, September 10 by using the Village web-request system or by calling the yard waste hotline at 847/933-3333 by noon on Tuesday, September 7, 2010.

Grass clippings are not collected.  For more information please contact the Public Works Department at 847/933-8427.