Barbara Vitello
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Republican attorney general candidate: 'Where they do not enforce the law, we will enforce it'Jun 06, 2022 1:00 am - A Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general said if elected, he will set up a process whereby police can ask the office to step in if their county state's attor...
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Spotlight: Comedian Paula Poundstone headlines the Genesee June 11Jun 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Paula on stage HBO and Comedy Central veteran Paula Poundstone, a "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" panelist and host of the NPR podcast "Live From the Poundstone Institut...
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Spotlight: 'Late Nite Catechism,' 'Little Mermaid' and 'Mamma Mia!' return to the stageMay 27, 2022 6:00 am - 'Late Nite' deal Chicago-area theater veteran and Dominican University faculty member Rose Guccione takes on the role of the cantankerous Sister in a special anniversary...
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Fantastical displays, major retrospectives on tap at suburban, Chicago museums this summerMay 22, 2022 7:32 am - Many folks prefer to be outdoors come summer. But on those sweltering days or on those stormy days that make outside activities impossible, you might want to check out t...
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Ever-resonant 'To Kill a Mockingbird' a plea for healingMay 20, 2022 4:15 pm - “To Kill a Mockingbird” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “We have to heal this wound or we'll never stop bleeding.” Atticus Finch, the standard-bearer of decency and tolerance Harper Lee int...
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Spotlight: Aurora's Copley Theatre revives darkly comic, puppet-centered 'Hand to God'May 20, 2022 6:00 am - Fourth time's a charm Disappointed by love and life, a pair of adult siblings - twice divorced and once widowed Maria and relationship-averse Anthony - find themselves b...
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South Barrington man held on $250K bail in child porn caseMay 20, 2022 1:00 am - A South Barrington man who authorities identified as a convicted sex offender was ordered held on a $250,000 cash bail Friday after prosecutors said police recovered tho...
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Gas, groceries and getaways: How suburban Facebook users say they'll use settlement cashMay 19, 2022 5:00 am - $650 million doesn't go as far as it used to. Just ask the 1.6 million or so Illinois Facebook users who last week began receiving payments as part of a settlement in a ...
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Des Plaines actress is right where she belongs - starring in Shattered Globe's 'Rasheeda Speaking'May 18, 2022 11:00 pm - Barbara Roeder Harris was born to theater. She made her debut playing the king in a production of "Cinderella" she and her siblings staged in the family basement. "I wa...