Northfield
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Way to save track is through pokerMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Mike Imrem wrote in his Sunday May 8th column: “Arlington Park is worth saving.” His article repeats many of the familiar facts that we know about the horse racing indus...
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Students bring teacher’s high school operetta to life in Arlington HeightsMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Take 80 students dressed in toy soldier and rag doll costumes, choreograph them in 15 musical dance numbers, and you have the stuff of a modern day operetta. But if the ...
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Mussman on wrong side of legislationMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Recently, the Illinois House approved good legislation, HB 161, that would help eliminate fraud in Illinois’ Link card (food stamp) program. More specifically, the legis...
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Close loopholes on campaign financingMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - The Daily Herald’s May 6 editorial (“End candidates’ hide-the-cash power grab”) identified two loopholes in the state’s new campaign contribution limits law, and the man...
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WildStang championship deserved more inkMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - I am deeply saddened by the Daily Herald’s failure to give due recognition to the accomplishments of the WildStang Robotics Team. The cooperative team made up of student...
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Painted locomotives part of the Arlington Heights’ quasquicentennialMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - The logo for the quasquicentennial, or 125th anniversary, of Arlington Heights’ incorporation, features a train, village skyline and green rays stretching to the future....
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Film shines new spotlight on Showmen's RestMay 14, 2011 11:00 pm - The newly released “Water for Elephants” movie may spark a resurgence of interest in a Forest Park cemetery where 56 circus workers, killed in a train wreck in 1918, are...
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'Idol' fans line up in burbs to see Haley ReinhartMay 14, 2011 1:00 am - For a split second on Saturday, it was just Harry Reinhart and his daughter Haley, known to most everyone else as “American Idol” star Haley Reinhart. “I always knew she...
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$1 million bail set in Lake Zurich crashMay 14, 2011 1:00 am - A man from downstate Collum has been charged in the March 24 crash at a Lake Zurich carwash that killed a Lake Barrington woman. Thomas Murphy, 40, was ordered held on $...
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Villa Park dad accepts diploma in memory of slain sonMay 14, 2011 12:00 am - Victor Robles earned his degree from the College of DuPage last year, but he decided to forgo the pomp and circumstance. His father, Aurelio Robles, was disappointed not...