Barbara Vitello
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Best bets: The New Philharmonic concludes its season and Lyric celebrates ‘Mary Poppins’Apr 08, 2026 8:30 am - The New Philharmonic concludes its season at the MAC, the Lyric Opera Orchestra performs the score to “Mary Poppins,” and Giordano Dance Chicago premieres three new works this week.
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Arlington Heights couple pleads not guilty to vandalizing Republican headquartersApr 07, 2026 4:44 pm - The Arlington Heights couple charged with vandalizing Wheeling Township Republican headquarters in January appeared in a Rolling Meadows courtroom Tuesday and entered not guilty pleas to the charges.
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Wheeling man charged in road-rage incident to remain in custodyApr 01, 2026 6:40 pm - Wheeling man charged with a road rage incident in Mount Prospect to remain behind bars while his case is pending.
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‘Theater of the Mind’ immerses and intriguesApr 01, 2026 4:13 pm - Musician/artist David Byrne, his wife, writer Mala Gaonkar, and Goodman Theatre collaborate on an intriguing theater-science hybrid called “Theater of the Mind.”
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Best Bets: Jazz great Arturo Sandoval performs free concert in AuroraMar 31, 2026 10:54 am - Master jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval performs a free concert at Aurora University, the balloon exhibition “EmotionAir” continues at The Fields Studios in Chicago, and the virtual reality exhibition “Titanic: A Voyage Through Time” opens at Germania Place in Chicago.
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Spotlight: Drury Lane revives ‘Father of the Bride’Mar 31, 2026 10:53 am - This week in Chicago-area theater, Drury Lane Theatre revives “Father of the Bride,” Wise women outwit Shakespeare’s Falstaff in Chicago Shakes’ “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and Northlight concludes its season with the screwball comedy “The Angel Next Door.”
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Aurora’s revived RiverEdge Park announces summer lineupMar 30, 2026 12:42 pm - Cheap Trick, The Beach Boys, UB40 and local favs Poi Dog Pondering are among the bands scheduled to perform in Aurora this summer when RiverEdge Park reopens after a year-long renovation.
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New era for the arts in Elgin: Theater scene gets boost from new arts centerMar 27, 2026 10:28 am - After a $2 million transformation, the former Elgin Elks’ lodge emerged as the new Elgin Art Showcase which Janus Theatre inaugurated earlier this month with a rollicking revival of Ben Jonson’s 17th century satire “The Alchemist.”
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State panel unanimously denies parole for convicted killer Patricia ColumboMar 26, 2026 3:24 pm - The Illinois Prisoner Review Board unanimously denied parole for Patricia Columbo, 69, who - along with her lover Frank DeLuca - killed her father, mother and younger brother in their Elk Grove Village home on May 4, 1976. Columbo is serving a prison term of 200 to 300 years. DeLuca died in prison in January, 2023.
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Broadway star in concert: Evanston’s Jessie Mueller shares songs, stories at Schaumburg’s Prairie CenterMar 24, 2026 4:53 pm - Tony Award winner and Evanston native Jessie Mueller returns to the Northwest suburbs to perform Saturday, April 18, at the Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg.