Barbara Vitello
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Former Barrington day care worker charged with child batteryMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - A former employee at a church-run Barrington day care was held on $50,000 bail Thursday on charges she carried toddlers by their arms and ankles, pushed one boy's face i...
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8 ways suburban restaurants responded to the pandemic over the past yearMar 03, 2021 10:00 pm - Nearly a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced many suburban restaurant owners to rethink the means by which they accomplish their mission. With indoor dining banned in...
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Spotlight: Northlight streams pandemic-related 'The Catastrophist'Mar 03, 2021 5:00 am - Play for a pandemic Written and staged during the COVID-19 pandemic, "The Catastrophist," by Lauren Gunderson ("The Book of Will," "Silent Sky," "Miss Bennet," "The Wick...
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No bail for Wheeling man charged with sexually abusing girlsMar 02, 2021 12:00 am - A 33-year-old Wheeling man was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges he sexually abused two girls. Buenaventura Espinosa-Tapia is charged with aggravated crimina...
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Surgeries for driver attacked during carjacking at Des Plaines auto dealershipFeb 26, 2021 12:00 am - It's one surgery down and one to go for the 36-year-old driver who was badly beaten Thursday during a carjacking at a luxury automobile dealership in Des Plaines. Serge...
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Chicago Theatre Week moves city, suburban productions online this yearFeb 25, 2021 5:00 am - After eight years, Chicago's annual theater festival coordinator Deb Clapp wasn't optimistic the event would happen this year. Clapp, the executive director of the Leagu...
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Spotlight: Shattered Globe auctions off Tom Hanks' typewriterFeb 24, 2021 5:00 am - First Folio chats Playwright Joseph Zettelmaier ("All Childish Things," "Salvage," "The Grave Digger"), a First Folio Theatre artistic associate, chats with associate ar...
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Select Cook County courts to resume jury trials next monthFeb 24, 2021 12:00 am - After more than a year, jury trials are set to resume at two Cook County courthouses by late March, according to an order issued Wednesday by Chief Judge Timothy C. Evan...
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Man charged with aggravated DUI in Route 53 Rolling Meadows crash that killed fourFeb 24, 2021 12:00 am - A 32-year-old man, charged Wednesday with four counts of aggravated DUI involving a death, had alcohol and marijuana in his system Saturday when his vehicle struck a dis...
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Jacquelyn Greco pleads guilty to husband's 1979 murder, sentenced to 22 yearsFeb 23, 2021 12:00 am - The 22-year sentence Jacquelyn Greco received Tuesday for her part in the 1979 murder of her husband wasn't the maximum allowed by law at the time. But her guilty plea, ...