Barbara Vitello
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Chicago and its museums partner for virtual toursApr 28, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago cultural institutions may be shuttered in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn't mean they're unavailable. Beginning this week, the Shedd Aquarium,...
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Music director from Palatine redirected art-making online with Thursday Facebook 'Lessons'Apr 23, 2020 6:00 am - Award-winning music director and conductor Tom Vendafreddo knows how disheartening it is being unable to make art. Like his fellow actors, designers, writers and direct...
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Cook County officials: COVID-19 absent in juvenile detaineesApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - None of the 88 general population residents selected for testing at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, health c...
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Spotlight: Theatre Y examines social isolation online with 'My Body's Image, Delayed'Apr 22, 2020 6:00 am - Theatre Y retrospective Theatre Y celebrates András Visky, the Hungarian-Romanian poet/playwright who inspired the company's creation, with a retrospective of his works ...
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Cook County juvenile detainees to be tested for COVID-19Apr 21, 2020 1:00 am - More than 80 residents of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago will be tested for COVID-19, Cook County's chief judge announced Tuesday. No one in the cen...
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Spotlight: Michael Shannon helps launch Chicago Children's Theatre's new YouTube channelApr 17, 2020 6:00 am - A mouse prepares Academy Award-nominee and A Red Orchid Theatre ensemble member Michael Shannon helps launch Chicago Children's Theatre's new virtual learning YouTube ch...
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Brian Dennehy remembered as 'towering presence' in Chicago theaterApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - Actor Brian Dennehy was as close to a Chicago native as you could get without having been born here. A major force in Chicago theater for more than three decades, the ac...
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Papa John's restaurants thank patrons with free pizzaApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - Suburban Papa John's Pizza restaurants are thanking customers in the best way they know: with free pizza. In appreciation of patrons' feeling an economic pinch as a res...
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Don't release Elk Grove killer, retired lawman urgesApr 15, 2020 1:00 am - In the midst of an international pandemic, retired Lake County undersheriff and former Elk Grove Village Deputy Police Chief Raymond Rose kept the vow he made more than ...
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In the shadow of COVID-19, suburbanites recall polio crisis of the 1950sApr 13, 2020 5:30 am - When Palatine native Cheri Pinchot was growing up in the 1950s, polio was the scourge adults and children feared. First reported in the United States in the mid-19th ce...