To have an event listed in this calendar, e-mail the details at least two weeks in advance of the event or registration deadline to nbrcalendar@dailyherald.com. Please put "Health & fitness" in the subject line. Personal Training special at LIFECENT...

I'm old enough to remember when gas sold for $1.42 a gallon, and our federal government spent $223 billion of our surplus paying down our national debt for the third straight year. Ah, remember the good old days of 2000? If you had bought Halliburto...

To have an event listed in this calendar, e-mail the details at least two weeks in advance of the event or registration deadline to nbrcalendar@dailyherald.com. Please put "health & fitness" in the subject line. GLMV Chamber Health & Wellne...

Nancy Pelosi has shown a lot of audacity telling the people of Illinois who our next Illinois senator ought to be when her candidate Barack Obama's elected. She's telling Gov. Blagojevich who, as governor of the State, would be obliged by the United...

Got an appointment with Congressman Mark Kirk's staff? As I discovered, the journey can be a pain without a car. The public has access to the barest minimum of public transportation to Mark Kirk's office at 707 Skokie Boulevard. Set deep within Nor...

Despite the economy, Pine Tree representatives still plan to move forward with their massive Rolling Meadows redevelopment project -- as long as city officials agree to kick in some financial help. Peter Borzak, a principal at the commercial real es...

The recent reporting of the Senate intelligence report reminds me of a Mark Kirk declaration in a Northbrook synagogue in 2002. In a debate with Hank Perrit, he said he had been to the war room with President Bush and he had seen the evidence of we...

AARP will host a town hall forum on health care and economic security issues today, 10 a.m. to noon, in the auditorium of the University of Illinois Extension, 100 S. Route 45, Grayslake. The forum is part of AARP's "Divided We Fail" initiative, a n...