Wheeling Business
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‘A perfect storm’: What’s our protection level against measles amid Chicago outbreak?Mar 24, 2024 8:54 am - Considered to be effectively eliminated across the U.S. in 2000, a measles outbreak in Chicago this month is a wake-up call about how easily things can spiral, experts say. How well protected are Illinoisans against the highly contagious respiratory virus?
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Wheeling remembers farmer, former trustee Mike HorcherMar 22, 2024 7:45 pm - A former Wheeling trustee and patriarch of a local farming family has died. Mike Horcher — father of current Wheeling Village President Pat Horcher — died March 16. He wa...
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‘Fair and sensible’: Arlington Heights proposes tax deal as Bears turn focus away from racetrack siteMar 19, 2024 7:57 am - Acting as intermediary — and perhaps hoping to get the Bears to redirect their focus to redeveloping the vacant Arlington Park racetrack — village officials Monday unveiled their proposed settlement to a long-running property tax dispute between the franchise and three area school districts.
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Parks group fears Bears entertainment district — once envisioned for Arlington Heights — coming to lakefront insteadMar 13, 2024 7:17 am - A Chicago parks advocacy group expressed concern Tuesday the Bears may bring the entertainment district they envisioned for Arlington Heights to the Chicago lakefront instead.
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Recent home and property salesMar 25, 2024 10:23 am - Cook County property transfers for Dec. 11, 2023, to Jan. 26, 2024.
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Indoor pickleball facility coming to WheelingMar 06, 2024 9:55 am - Grab your paddles and balls, suburban pickleball fans — a new, indoor club is coming to Wheeling. FROG Pickleball will occupy part of an industrial building at 1480 S. Wo...
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Vacant Wheeling office building to become apartmentsMar 04, 2024 8:28 pm - A proposal to convert a vacant Wheeling office building into housing and retail space was formally approved by the village board Monday night. With affirmative votes on t...
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Prescribed burns part of conservation, nature’s cycleMar 03, 2024 4:58 pm - Long before Europeans settled in Illinois and transformed the Prairie State into what it is today, fire fueled the land. Landscape scale fire, both natural and indigenous...
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Cook County anticipated to exempt schools, park districts from new paid-leave lawFeb 16, 2024 9:40 am - Cook County Board commissioners are contemplating an amendment to their controversial paid-leave ordinance that took effect in January that would eliminate a key differen...
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‘A convenient argument’: Superintendents say they’re not to blame if Bears stay downtownFeb 13, 2024 6:06 am - Leaders of Arlington Heights-area school districts engaged in a property tax battle with the Chicago Bears said Monday they’ve been unfairly portrayed as potentially scut...