Barbara Vitello

Legal Affairs Writer
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Barbara Vitello, legal affairs writer and theater critic, joined the Daily Herald in 1997. Assigned to cover arts, entertainment and culture, she served as critic at large until 2008, when she took over the Cook County courts beat.

A Lisagor Award winner, Barbara has bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University.

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Daley nephew's manslaughter trial could start next year

May 14 2013 | 5:55 pm - McHenry County Judge Maureen McIntyre told attorneys Tuesday to "pencil in January or February" but otherwise gave no indications of when a manslaughter trial could begin for the nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Richard Vanecko faces...

Inverness man gets probation for retirement home burglary

May 14 2013 | 4:36 pm - An Inverness man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking a flat screen television from a Palatine retirement home. In exchange for his guilty plea to burglary, Leonardo Adames was sentenced to 24 months probation and ordered to pay $500 restitution.

Mount Prospect man charged with assaulting a child

May 13 2013 | 5:59 pm - A Cook County judge set bail at $700,000 total for a 29-year-old Mount Prospect man charged with molesting a 4-year-old. Jorge Caporel, who has no criminal background, faces two charges of predatory criminal sexual assault, class X felonies...

No word on retrial in 2011 meat cleaver attack

May 10 2013 | 8:07 pm - Cook County prosecutors have not indicated whether they intend to retry former cook Xiubin Mei on charges of attempted murder and aggravated stemming from an altercation between Mei and the owner of the China Bowl Restaurant in Elk Grove Village,...

Richard Marx, Peter Yarrow on Raue summer lineup

May 10 2013 | 5:37 am - The Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake announced some of its 2013-2014 lineup which will include singer/songwriter Richard Marx, Broadway veteran Ben Vereen, Peter Yarrow and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy among others. The center’s resident...

Goodman’s ‘Vera Stark’ falls short of potential

May 09 2013 | 5:34 pm - The subject of Lynn Nottage's "By The Way, Meet Vera Stark" — an examination of racism in 1930s Hollywood — is certainly ripe for satire. The comedy is broad and the dialogue is funny. But Nottage's uneven dramedy about a fictional...

Theater events: ‘Black Tie’ closes out Steel Beam’s season

May 09 2013 | 2:22 pm - Steel Beam concludes its season with the wedding-centered comedy "Black Tie"; Metropolis celebrates romance over dinner; and Court Theatre presents the first of its two-production Moliere mini-fest this week in Chicago-area theater.

Home health worker charged with Elk Grove Village theft

May 09 2013 | 5:49 pm - A 25-year-old former home health care worker faces charges of theft after authorities accused him of taking jewelry from an Elk Grove Village couple. Matthew Pedrosa, of the 2900 block of Harding Avenue in Chicago, appeared in court Thursday where...

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 'Trumbo' a portrait of the artist as a patriot

May 08 2013 | 5:57 pm - Not a lot happens over the course of "Trumbo-Red, White & Blacklisted" — the two-hander about Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter responsible for "Spartacus," "Roman Holiday," "Papillon" and "Lonely Are the Brave" — running at...

Michigan woman charged in 1979 Inverness murder

May 08 2013 | 8:39 pm - More than 30 years after intruders shot Inverness commodities broker Carl Gaimari to death during a home invasion on April 30, 1979, authorities charged the victim's wife, Jacquelyn Greco, with his murder. Greco, 66, of Crystal Falls, Mich.,...

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