In a downtown protest, parents demanded busing for the 5,500 students who’d been promised transportation when enrolling in district magnet and selective enrollment schools.
When longtime state legislator Annazette Collins left office a decade ago, she went through a revolving door that’s practically a tradition in Illinois, forming a lobbying and consulting firm that helped major companies like AT&T and ComEd gain traction with her former colleagues in the General Assembly.
Lake Zurich officials unofficially have approved a proposal to buy, redevelop and enhance a prominent downtown corner property.
The Laugh Out Loud Theater will leave its permanent location at Streets of Woodfield in Schaumburg in April after 17 years to become an itinerant troupe of improv comedy performers and trainers.
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Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was honored as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2024 Woman of the Year.
The statewide campaign against tipped wages is expected to face fierce opposition from the restaurant industry, who say it would hurt businesses.
Two men and a woman received federal indictment charges on Thursday for multiple carjackings and murders in 2020 in Chicago. According to a federal indictment returned on Thursday, Edson Rsendez, 22, Maverick Cela, 22, and Prezila Apreza, 23, murdered Nabil Mahour during an attempted carjacking in Chicago’s Dunning neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2020, and later that day, used a car taken in another carjacking to fatally shoot Eduardo Triano in the North Park neighborhood. The three are in law enforcement custody. Their next court date is yet to be scheduled. Resendez and Cela were previously charged in a 2022 federal […]
Striker Hugo Cuypers spent the last three seasons in Belgium’s Jupiler Pro League, totaling 64 goals and 25 assists in 126 matches.
The 2024 calendar may go down in history as the enemy of romance. It lists Mardi Gras, better known in Chicago as Paczki Day, on Feb. 13 and Valentine’s Day on Wednesday, Feb. 14. That presents two problems. Bakery managers have acknowledged that while they do booming business on Paczki Day, it’s not the greatest thing to have Valentine’s Day fall on Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting and abstinence that begins the 40-day Lent period for Christians, according to previous reporting and area pastors. The fasting does not make allowances for heart-shaped cakes or pink-sprinkled Cupid cookies, but bakers […]