Search
9712 results returned for search: "Northbrook"
Kilted wonders
Marvel at the competitions in heavy sports, Highland dancing and even frozen haggis tossing at the 27th Annual Scottish Festival & Highland Games this weekend at Hamilton Lakes, Thorndale Avenue and Route 53, Itasca. The festival...
Updated: Jun 16, 2013 at 08:39 AM
Smooth jazz
Marion Meadows, a saxophonist who brings elements of funk and a strong sense of melody to his smooth-jazz arrangements, will make a stop this weekend in the suburbs.
7 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at the Montrose Room, located insid...
Updated: Jun 14, 2013 at 07:13 AM
Foxy blues
Buddy Guy and Dr. John headline the Blues on the Fox Outdoor Music Festival this weekend at the new venue known as RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway St., Aurora. $10-$30 single day admission; $15-$50 two-day pass. (630) 896-6666 or riv...
Updated: Jun 17, 2013 at 07:24 AM
Steve Herbst of Palatine was one of three winners across two nations announced Friday in the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association’s “Local Heroes” contest for awards of wheelchair-accessible vans.
Herbst, 46, is among the co-founders of t...
Updated: Jun 08, 2013 at 03:55 PM
More than a dozen performers took the stage at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights on Thursday hoping to make a splash in this year’s Suburban Chicago’s Got Talent competition.
Thursday was the first day of auditions for the regio...
Updated: Jun 08, 2013 at 10:41 AM
The Prospect Heights Police Department will participate in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Sunday, June 9, to raise funds for the Special Olympics.
Prospect Heights runners will pick up the torch at Milwaukee Avenue and Hintz Road and carry it ...
Updated: Jun 04, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Yvonne Losey deals with birth, while her husband Lt. Col. Garry Losey deals with death. And they wouldn’t consider doing anything else.
Yvonne is the director of the birth center at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, serving mothers a...
Updated: Jun 04, 2013 at 06:45 AM
Coming off a spring session in which all of his top legislative priorities failed, Gov. Pat Quinn finds himself politically vulnerable and facing another trial: fending off the string of potential candidates who want to unseat him in 2014.
Quinn nee...
Updated: Jun 04, 2013 at 12:32 AM
Although an official strike zone is from the letters to the knees and the width of the plate, pitchers know that they have to adjust to every umpire’s interpretation of it.
Libertyville’s Jeff Barton did just that and was able to shackle Stevenson i...
Updated: Jun 03, 2013 at 10:27 PM
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois would join the rest of the nation in allowing the carrying of concealed weapons under legislation approved by the General Assembly on Friday.
The plan would prohibit the possession of guns in such places as schools, taverns an...
Updated: Jun 03, 2013 at 10:55 AM