Barbara Vitello
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Oak Brook's First Folio premieres 'Captain Blood' swashbucklerJan 20, 2017 5:00 am - When First Folio Theatre executive producer David Rice proposed adapting Rafael Sabatini's 1922 swashbuckler “Captain Blood” five years ago, he had only one condition: t...
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Three plead guilty to 2015 Wheeling armed robberyJan 20, 2017 12:00 am - Two 19-year-old men and a 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday to a 2015 Wheeling armed robbery authorities described as a drug deal gone bad. The trio pleaded guilt...
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Woman sentenced to probation for Schaumburg drug chargesJan 19, 2017 12:00 am - A Hoffman Estates woman, charged after a police raid in Schaumburg recovered about $59,000 worth of marijuana and a drug cutting agent in a baby formula can, was sentenc...
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Authorities: Hoffman Estates man dropped, shook childJan 19, 2017 12:00 am - Editor's note: The age of the child and middle initial of the defendant have been corrected from earlier versions. A Hoffman Estates man is being held on $600,000 b...
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Theater events: Williams Street Rep starts 2017 with 'First Date'Jan 17, 2017 10:00 pm - 'First date' William Street Repertory begins 2017 with "First Date," a musical comedy about finding love in the 21st century. Directed by Robin Hughes, the show unf...
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Schaumburg man pleads guilty to drug charges, gets 10 yearsJan 17, 2017 12:00 am - A Schaumburg man who prosecutors say kept a loaded gun in his bedroom where his baby also slept and stored a drug cutting agent in a baby formula container pleaded guilt...
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Elgin woman admits sexually abusing teenJan 17, 2017 12:00 am - An Elgin woman will spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender as a condition of her guilty plea to sexually abusing a teenage boy. Randal Perlman, 52, was...
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'Wicked' returns to Chicago in DecemberJan 17, 2017 12:00 am - "Wicked," the blockbuster musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, returns to Chicago in time for the holidays. Broadway in Chicago announced Tuesday the tour wi...
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Theater events: Arc celebrates strong women of 'Steel'Jan 14, 2017 5:30 am - Comic caper Suburbanites on the brink of economic disaster during the 2008 recession resort to crime with humorous results in "Random Theft and Other Acts," by John Davi...
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Budding scientists display prowess during Arlington Heights Science OlympiadJan 14, 2017 12:00 am - Not all the inventions entered in the annual Science Olympiad invitational at South Middle School in Arlington Heights looked pretty. But when it comes to these contrap...