A pedestrian passes Wednesday by the old Hawthorne Plaza in Hawthorne that has been closed for decades. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of ...

Editor’s note: Ron Sokol has been interested in the future of the long-abandoned Hawthorne Plaza. After reaching out to Robert Kim, Hawthorne’s city attorney, about the status of a lawsuit over the ...

Graffiti is scrawled on the walls. Light fixtures have been torn out. The roof is partially collapsed and code violations abound – from plumbing to electrical. Welcome to Hawthorne Plaza, an ...

Hawthorn, the million-square-foot Vernon Hills shopping center, has been “moved into the 21st century,” Village Senior Trustee Thom Koch Jr. said during a tour of 14 new businesses Thursday, as ...

The next step in a comprehensive transformation of the Hawthorn mall property in Vernon Hills aims to build on the success of initial work and keep what remains of the existing 1970s-era shopping ...

For the first time in the newer part of the Hawthorn mall in Vernon Hills, Saturday’s annual Earth Day Celebration featured food trucks, artisan booths, live music, lawn games, a petting zoo, animal ...

Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza and have obtained a permanent court injunction requiring them to either redevelop or demolish it by August 2026. The ...

Redevelop Hawthorne Plaza or it will be demolished, judge tells property owner The owner of the ill-fated shopping center, who did not return requests for comment, was ordered by a judge to demolish ...