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Seventeen interested applicants sent their credentials to the party by the Wednesday deadline, including several county board members, a sitting state senator and the current clerk of Evanston.
Schaumburg trustees have annexed 5.9 acres owned by Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament to add to the area’s existing tax increment financing (TIF) district that could help fund an eastward extension of Central Road to connect the Sunstar Americas headquarters with the Veridian development near Topgolf.
About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects committing more offenses or skipping court so far haven’t materialized, at least in Cook County.
This year’s lineup for Blues on the Fox in Aurora will feature some Chicago area legends, a blues artist from the United Kingdom and a man dubbed one of the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, event organizers said.
The center would be a drop-off point for unwanted items such as motor oil, fluorescent light bulbs and household chemicals, and would create a collection site for south suburban residents, who do not have access to one, according to a news release.
The Great Lakes piping plover population, which reached an all-time low of 13 pairs in the 1980s, has rebounded to around 70 breeding pairs thanks to recent conservation efforts.
Lincoln-Way District 210 sees another boost in credit rating as trial of former Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie is pushed back.
Mallory Thompson’s history at Northwestern University began as an undergraduate student studying to become a professional trumpet player. But her Northwestern career led her in an entirely different direction. In May, she will lead her final concert, capping a 28-year career as Director of Bands at the University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music. She was the first women to serve in that position. Her titles include John W. Beattie Chair of Music, Professor of Music, Coordinator of Conducting Program, and Charles Deering McCormick Professor.” “I was a music education major at Northwestern as an undergraduate student,” Thompson related. […]
Epic Burger, now open at 500 Hough St., in Barrington, invites the community to celebrate with a day of specials on Saturday.