Barbara Vitello
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Highland Park officer-involved shooting under investigationJun 20, 2025 12:12 pm - Early Friday, Highland Park police officers fatally shot a man after they say approached them with a raised knife which he refused to drop.
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Top of their game: Steppenwolf veterans triumph in Chicago premiere of ‘You Will Get Sick’Jun 19, 2025 10:12 am - Amy Morton returns to Steppenwolf Theatre to star alongside tireless fellow ensemble member Namir Smallwood in the Chicago premiere of “You Will Get Sick,” Noah Diaz’s surreal, poignant meditation on illness and death.
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Season’s first heat wave on the wayJun 17, 2025 3:39 pm - Storms with potentially damaging winds and hail are expected Tuesday night, with a heat wave predicted to follow this weekend.
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Best Bets: Swingin’ at Cantigny, ‘Wicked’ sing-along at Paramount, The Wiggles at Rosemont TheatreJun 17, 2025 12:36 pm - Cantigny debuts musical swings, Wheaton welcomes craft beer lovers, The Wiggles return to Rosemont and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art hosts the Hokusai Japan Fest.
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Spotlight: Writers, TimeLine theaters premiere the Chicago-set ‘Dhaba on Devon’Jun 16, 2025 3:49 pm - This week in suburban theater, Writers and TimeLine team up for the world premiere of the family dramedy “Dhaba on Devon” and MadKap Productions revives “Forever Plaid.”
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Suburban man donates his kidney to help former neighbor’s sonJun 14, 2025 12:30 pm - How many times in a person’s life does one have the chance to give someone else 20 more years of theirs? For Mike Torti, at least one. Last October, the Woodridge man donated a kidney so that the son of a former neighbor he hadn’t seen in 20 years could get the kidney he needed.
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble announces new artistic leadershipJun 12, 2025 2:07 pm - A year after longtime Buffalo Theatre Ensemble managing artistic director Connie Canaday Howard stepped down, the company named Gus Menary, co-founder of Jackalope Theatre, an off-Loop Chicago company, as the new managing artistic director. Canady Howard retired last year.
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Martians attack: The invasion of Chicago begins in the ’burbs in Lifeline’s ‘War of the Worlds’Jun 11, 2025 8:05 am - More than a dozen West and Northwest suburbs are referenced in Lifeline Theatre’s world premiere of “War of the Worlds,” adapted by ensemble member John Hildreth from H.G. Welles’ seminal sci-fi novel about a Martian invasion.
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Best Bets: DJs converge on Aurora Saturday for the A-Town House Music FestJun 10, 2025 1:40 pm - The A-Town House Music Fest takes over Wilder Park in Aurora, the Count Basie Orchestra headlines Cantigny’s Jazz and Wine Fest, and the rodeo comes to West Chicago’s Sonny Acres Farm.
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Spotlight: Marriott Theatre premieres 1980s jukebox tuner ‘Always Something There …’Jun 10, 2025 9:30 am - Marriott Theatre premieres the new 1980s-set jukebox tuner “Always Something There ...,” BrightSide Theatre revives the 1970s musical “Pippin” and Aurora’s Copley Theatre welcomes The Second City’s 65th anniversary show.