Barbara Vitello
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Big screen blockbusters coming to a Walmart parking lot near youAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - It didn't take long for word of Walmart's drive-in film series to spread. And once it did, reservations for the retail giant's parking lot screenings sold out within hou...
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Reservist alleges military service led to his firing from Northbrook-based charityAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - An Army reservist from Vernon Hills filed a lawsuit against his employer, Northbrook-based social services organization Keshet, charging he was fired because of his mili...
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Glenview's Oil Lamp Theater records one-woman comedy 'Bad Dates' for drive-in, online viewingAug 05, 2020 6:00 am - Like many theater-makers whose stages went dark this spring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oil Lamp Theater executive director Jay Pastucha and associate artistic...
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Winnetka family keeps kids busy with creative Fun Camp in a BoxAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - Growing up, Juliana Bozzo and her younger sisters were never bored. For that, they thank their mother. “My mom's a family fun expert,” said Juliana Bozzo, 20, of her ...
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Hoffman Estates man gets 7 years for sexual assaulting woman he met on social mediaAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - A Hoffman Estates man was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman h...
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Suburban art fairs return in altered form as physically distanced 'art walks'Aug 01, 2020 7:00 am - It was early 2020 and festival organizer Amy Amdur's year was shaping up. The founder and president of the Highland Park-based Amdur Productions, a company that has prod...
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Spotlight: Theater collaborations make new digital premieres possibleJul 30, 2020 11:00 pm - Trap Door online Chicago's Trap Door Theatre, in association with its sister company Trap Door International in Barcelona, Spain, presents a digital production of “Alas”...
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Parole denied again for Patricia Columbo, Frank DeLuca in Elk Grove murdersJul 30, 2020 1:00 am - Convicted killers Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca - serving time for the murders of her family in their Elk Grove Village home - have again been denied parole by the I...
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Columbo family's killers trying again for paroleJul 29, 2020 1:00 am - When a Cook County judge sentenced Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca to more than 300 years in prison for the murders of Columbo's father, mother and 13-year-old brother...
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Hoffman Estates mother gets 11 years for attempted murder of childrenJul 26, 2020 11:00 pm - A Hoffman Estates mother pleaded guilty Monday to the attempted murder of her two children in exchange for an 11-year prison sentence. Tracy F. Johnson, 41, asked Cook C...