Q&A with Eleazar Bonilla, owner of Cinnamon Pancake House in Naperville.
Day: January 23, 2025
Feds in Madigan trial continue to lay out ‘corrupt exchange’ between ex-speaker and ComEd
Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy, showering his cronies with do-nothing contracts, giving special treatment to 13th Ward internship applicants, and putting a Madigan-recommended candidate on its board of directors, a federal prosecutor argued Thursday.
Has the Happy Slam — aka the Australian Open — become the Angry Slam? Or is tennis just changing?
Things are somewhat out of control at the Australian Open this year, and it has only a little to do with the results on the courts.
A ‘new era’ for downtown Lisle? Developer proposes apartments, townhouses
A developer aims to build both apartments and townhouses on the periphery of downtown Lisle.
Elgin News Digest: Service for former councilwoman, longtime volunteer set for Saturday; South Elgin HS alum nominated for college TV award
Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.
Batavia could get its first pot shop soon
Batavia residents could be able to shop for cannabis locally as soon as this summer after plans to operate a dispensary out of a vacant storefront on Randall Road received the city’s seal of approval.
Tiffany Henyard’s name will stay off Thornton Township ballot, Cook County court affirms
A Cook County judge dismissed Supervisor Tiffany Henyard’s lawsuit to overturn Thornton Township caucus nomination of Napoleon Harris.
Review: Simply put, Handspring’s ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ raises the art form of puppetry
Adapted from the novel by J.M. Coetzee, this powerful and moving play tells the story of an ordinary Black man in South Africa.
Waukegan endorses controversial location for Chick-fil-A; ‘Why are we willing to bend … (so) you can have the competitive advantage?’
Before it can build its restaurant on the southeast corner of Northpoint Boulevard and Waukegan Road, across from the Fountain Square shopping center, Chick-fil-A needed a zoning change and other modifications from the city because the lot is designated for light manufacturing.
Alum Leonard Schaeffer donates $7 million to Evanston Township High School
The Evanston Township High School District 202 unanimously approved the district to accept a $7 million donation from alumni Leonard Schaeffer at its meeting on Jan. 13. Schaeffer, an alumnus from the class of 1963, will have the high school’s upgraded auditorium named after him. The donation will pay for it, and the auditorium will be named the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for the Performing Arts. Superintendent Marcus Campbell called the donation “an extraordinary act of generosity from one of our own.” According to Campbell, the seven-figure donation is the largest in the history of the ETHS Education Foundation. Previously, […]