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Let the music play: Yasmina Nader and Mena Abadir, co-owners of Arabian Nights, a new hookah lounge in Schaumburg, unintentionally helped clarify a gray area of the state's indoor smoking ban when they applied for an entertainment license last w...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 12:05 PM
In the weeks leading up to his sudden departure for College of DuPage, former Harper College President Robert Breuder was mobilizing some of the most ambitious initiatives in the school's 40-year history.
In October, state legislators joined area po...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 12:04 PM
Most New Year's resolutions lose their fizz faster than a bottle of cheap champagne.
That's because, experts say, people expect sudden transformation rather than gradual progress. They hope a single decisive action, like buying a treadmill, can help...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:58 AM
Controversy and tragedy make news, so it's no surprise that the top regional stories of 2008 are issues and events that stir the emotions. Here are the stories that attracted the most attention and most affected suburban life in 2008.
On Feb. 14, a ...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:50 AM
The snowy, snowy December that's fresh in everyone's mind was proceeded, you may recall, by record-threatening rain and widespread flooding just a couple months earlier.
It was that type of year - a little bit of everything.
There was the tragic: A ...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:50 AM
After being laid off for the third time, Joyce Mueller decided she'd had enough.
As a United Airlines customer service and sales rep for 21 years, Mueller survived 9/11 and the company's bankruptcy. But when her job was outsourced to the Philippines...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:52 AM
That dreaded ramp:
Ah, the holidays are over and now perhaps we can get through the ramp from the Jane Addams Tollway onto I-290/Route 53 - you know the one, heading toward Woodfield. This shopping season proved once again that having cars go throug...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:45 AM
The first order of business is to wish all of you a very happy and healthy holiday.
I appreciate all of your comments and e-mails over the years, and even though I have an occasional problem returning the electronic correspondence, I make every effo...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:36 AM
Events related to books and events that enrich your mind, such as book signings, book club events, book sales, writers' group events, lectures, speakers, classes, forums and discussions. Deadline is two weeks before event date. For additional detail...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:28 AM
George Rubschlager's one good hand gripped 20 years of hard work and a dream dating back even longer.
Monday, more than six decades after he left high school to join the U.S. Army, Harper College awarded the 80-year-old Palatine man his associate de...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:21 AM