Barbara Vitello
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Theater events: Victory Gardens stages neighborly 'Native Gardens'May 29, 2017 11:00 pm - Good fences Robert Frost wrote "good fences make good neighbors." Playwright Karen Zacarias tests that adage in "Native Gardens," about neighbors whose disagreement over...
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Northlight's Albert Einstein drama examines 'Relativity' in all its formsMay 24, 2017 9:00 am - The Northlight Theatre audience at the press opening of “Relativity” greeted Mike Nussbaum at his curtain call as Chicago-area audiences typically do, with a standing ov...
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Theater events: Lifeline re-imagines Shakespeare's lost year in 'Her Majesty's Will'May 24, 2017 6:00 am - Excellent adventure A plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I unites young Will Shakespeare, who's running from the law, and Christopher Marlowe, one of the queen's s...
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Prosecutors: Woman used Buffalo Grove pizzeria as drug frontMay 23, 2017 1:00 am - An Arlington Heights woman who authorities say used a now-shuttered Buffalo Grove pizzeria as a front for drug trafficking was convicted Tuesday of multiple drug charges...
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Rolling Meadows man sentenced to 6 years on weapons chargeMay 22, 2017 1:00 am - A 21-year-old Rolling Meadows man on parole for recklessly discharging a firearm in 2015 pleaded guilty Monday to another weapons charge and was sentenced to six years i...
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Prospect Heights couple plead not guilty to sexually abusing teensMay 22, 2017 1:00 am - A Prospect Heights couple charged with sexually abusing teenage boys they had invited to their home entered not guilty pleas Monday. Christopher Wheeler, 30, and his hu...
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Former Streamwood behavioral health worker charged with abusing girlMay 19, 2017 1:00 am - A 25-year-old former behavioral health technician at a Streamwood mental health facility was ordered held on $1.5 million bail Friday on charges he sexually abused a 12-...
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Bensenville woman gets jail for biting South Barrington police officerMay 19, 2017 1:00 am - A Bensenville woman who bit a South Barrington police officer after her March arrest was sentenced to 60 days in jail and two years of probation in exchange for her guil...
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Guilty verdict in sexual assault of 97-year-old Arlington Heights womanMay 18, 2017 1:00 am - A 97-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted in her Arlington Heights home nearly two years ago didn't live to testify against her attacker at his trial. But jurors he...
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Theater events: Naperville native Kaye Winks brings solo show 'Token' to ChicagoMay 17, 2017 6:00 am - Winking at race Actress, writer and Naperville native Kaye Winks returns to Chicago after six years with "Token," her solo show examining race and what it's like to oft...