FRI, 3/22/2019

Friday, March 22, 2019

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Code violations in the building housing the Arcada Theatre is forcing the theater to close Thursday.

Theater | Arcada Theatre shut down for code violations

The building that houses the Arcada Theatre and Club Arcada in St. Charles was shut down Thursday due to code violations, according to a news release from the city of St. Charles.
Robin Czerniak, brother of the owner of the Central Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect, hands out strawberry samples of the traditional polish pastry, paczki, to patrons waiting on orders to be picked up as the Fat Tuesday rush fills the bakery.

News | Why Catholics, Christians fast during Lent, and how practices have changed

Suburban Catholics and many Christians have gone from gorging on paczkis on Fat Tuesday to observing meatless Fridays during the most blessed period of their religious calendar -- Lent.
Intersection upgrades are under construction at Nippersink and Wilson roads near Round Lake. It is one of four projects in Lake County entering a second construction season.

Lake County | Where Lake County is spending $134 million this year to fix roads, or even narrow them

Drivers will be dodging $134 million in road-related construction scheduled this year by the Lake County Division of Transportation.
Katie James and son Caiden Casas, 3, of Schaumburg get ready to launch balloons at the GiGi’s Playhouse in Hoffman Estates.

News | GiGi's Playhouse marks World Down Syndrome Day

GiGi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Centers celebrated World Down Syndrome Day Thursday with an open house at its Hoffman Estates headquarters at 2350 W. Higgins Road.
Actor Donnie Wahlberg addresses the St. Charles City Council last year about opening a Wahlburgers restaurant on the city's west side. The restaurant's groundbreaking is Friday.
Business | Donnie Wahlberg to attend Wahlburgers groundbreaking Friday in St. Charles
Donnie Wahlberg is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking celebration for the new Wahlburgers restaurant in St. Charles, set for 10 a.m. Friday at 855 S. Randall Road.
Dan Collins, left, of the nonprofit Heroes Family Fund, joins Kimberly Dahlem and her brother, Mike Kacen, at Oak Alley Saloon in Palatine. Dahlem’s husband, Mark, who was a Palatine police officer, died of brain cancer in February, and the evening was a fundraiser to aid in their children’s education.
News | Event raises money for late Palatine police officer's children
With Oak Alley Saloon in Palatine buzzing from a packed house and a bunch of televisions tuned to first-round NCAA basketball tournament games, Mark Dahlem would have been in his element.
A real estate contract for an 8,000-square-foot building at 112 N. Belmont Ave. in Arlington Heights has been approved by the library board and now awaits final approval from the village board. The library plans to open a “makerspace” there.
News | What Arlington Heights Library might have to pay for 'makerspace' building
While the village of Arlington Heights may not be charging the Arlington Heights Memorial Library for an unused building to be used for a proposed library "makerspace," the library may have to pay $42,800 for community development projects under a proposed deal between the two.
New members of the Illinois tollway board Stephen Davis, right, Jim Sweeney, Alice Gallagher, Scott Paddock, Gary Perinar and Jim Connolly meet on Thursday in Downers Grove.
Transportation | New board takes over at Illinois tollway, tightens ethics rules
New Illinois tollway board directors move in, making bylaws changes after ethics concerns.
Caren Irsuto
Crime | Employee charged with stealing $600,000 from Arlington Heights dentist
A former bookkeeper for an Arlington Heights dentist faces charges of stealing more than $600,000 from her employer over six years. Charged alongside Caren Irsuto, 56, of Schiller Park, was her husband Scott Irsuto, 58.
Developers have dropped plans for a Glen Ellyn gas station in the wake of a court loss.
News | Developers drop Glen Ellyn gas station project after neighbors win legal fight
Developers on the losing end of a two-year legal fight over a Glen Ellyn gas station have decided to walk away from the project.
Lorrie Luckinbill-Hamlen
News | Kaneland students, staff mourn loss of beloved gym teacher
Kaneland students, staff mourn loss of beloved gym teacher
Former Hinckley police chief Kimberly Everhart.
Crime | Ex-Hinckley police chief charged with official misconduct
A former Hinckley police chief has been charged with official misconduct and illegally secretly recording a conversation with the town's president.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Oswego & Plainfield Area chambers of commerce recently had a joint ribbon cutting for the new Keller Williams Infinity Office, 11850 S. Route 59, Plainfield, managed by Jeannie LaMarre.
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