All Stories from February 24, 2020 (Change date)
-
Plan ahead: Tituss Burgess performs at the Genesee Theatre March 13Feb 24, 2020 5:00 am - 'Unbreakable' Tituss Fans of Tina Fey's series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" won't want to miss seeing Broadway veteran Tituss Burgess in concert on Friday, March 13, at t...
-
My Child's Life Matters helps those dealing with opioid addictionsFeb 24, 2020 5:00 am - Kathy and Robb Zander lost their son, John Allen, to fentanyl poisoning almost three years ago - four days before his 23rd birthday. They are not alone in their grief. ...
-
Eating less, with more purpose during the 2020 Fittest Loser contestFeb 24, 2020 5:00 am - By Dick Quagliano "Listen up, this is important!" I spoke those words into a camera 25 years ago when my family and I did a television commercial for a frozen dinner. At...
-
Chicago legend Buddy Guy plays the Rialto as one of the last of the 'old blues guys'Feb 24, 2020 5:00 am - Buddy Guy, 83, is a Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist and singer. He performs more than 130 gigs a year, including a January residency at his Chicago blues club, Budd...
-
Fittest Loser teams come up with creative names to stay motivatedFeb 24, 2020 5:00 am - The Fittest Loser Team Challenge has returned for its eighth year with more than 230 participants, representing over 50 businesses, park districts and teams of individua...
-
Backers say the time is right for $147M Barrington 220 referendumFeb 24, 2020 4:30 am - Barrington Area Unit District 220 will seek voter approval next month to borrow $147 million for building projects, including safety and security upgrades at all its sch...
-
Neighbors want county to reject proposed subdivision near West ChicagoFeb 24, 2020 4:30 am - Just when it appeared DuPage County would reject a plan to build dozens of houses on the site of a former garden nursery near West Chicago, the project picked up a key e...
-
What small Queen Bee School District did to produce eye-catching results on state examsFeb 24, 2020 4:30 am - Queen Bee School District 16 has been around for 160 years, about a century longer than the village of Glendale Heights, where it's based. For much of its history, some ...
-
4 new places to eat, drink coming to St. CharlesFeb 24, 2020 4:30 am - A brewery, a cafe, a craft beer bar and an Italian restaurant are among the newest St. Charles establishments slated to open this spring. Aldermen expressed early suppor...
-
With Route 53 extension dropped, what happens to $54 million in land?Feb 24, 2020 4:30 am - Quashing the proposed extension of Route 53 north into Lake County may have been the easy part. Residents who waged war against the pricey expansion rejoiced when the Il...