Barbara Vitello
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Steppenwolf tackles eternal questions in ambitious 'Eden'Sep 30, 2015 10:00 am - Do genetics determine a man's nature? Or is it defined by the choices he makes? The question of fate vs. free will — set against the eternal battle between good and evil...
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Mount Prospect woman charged with sexually abusing teenSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - A Mount Prospect woman charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl was ordered held on $250,000 bail Wednesday. Maria Silva, 38, was charged with aggravated criminal s...
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Mount Prospect man gets 24 years for child sex assaultSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - A 33-year-old Mount Prospect man was sentenced to 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a young girl between August 2010 and February 2015. Mart...
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Theater events: Shattered Globe opens 25th season with 'Marvin's Room'Sep 25, 2015 6:00 am - Shattered Globe at 25 Shattered Globe Theatre opens its 25th season with a 25th anniversary production of Chicago playwright Scott McPherson's tragicomedy "Marvin's...
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Bond set at $500,000 for Elgin man charged in kidnappingSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - A 51-year-old Elgin man was ordered held on $500,000 bail Friday after authorities say he kidnapped a woman in Hoffman Estates early Wednesday morning. Dana Green, of t...
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Man gets three years for cyberstalking relativesSep 24, 2015 1:00 am - A man who authorities say sent threatening messages to a female relative pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges Thursday and was sentenced to three years in prison. Ste...
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Jail time for driver who caused car crash that killed Hanover Park teenSep 24, 2015 1:00 am - The former Glendale Heights man responsible for the December 2011 collision near Galena that claimed the life of a Hanover Park teenager was sentenced Thursday to 180 da...
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Goodman's engrossing 'Disgraced' reveals sobering truthsSep 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Melancholy came over me as I walked to my car after seeing Goodman Theatre's “Disgraced.” Not about Ayad Akhtar's 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a provoking examinati...
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Palatine teen pleads guilty to burglarizing vehicleSep 23, 2015 1:00 am - A Palatine man pleaded guilty to breaking into a vehicle parked in the 600 block of Piper Lane in Mount Prospect last July, court records show. Uriel Rodriguez, 19, was...
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George Wendt earns title in Northlight's 'Funnyman'Sep 20, 2015 11:00 pm - Sight gags get laughs. Playwright Bruce Graham knows it and uses one to great effect in his solid new dramedy “Funnyman,” which premiered to a chorus of belly laughs fr...