Barbara Vitello
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Despite strong cast, theatricality undercuts Goodman's 'Smokefall'Oct 18, 2013 6:00 am - Is life worth living? Can love, impermanent though it may be, and joy, however fleeting, outweigh the disappointment, loss and grief we experience over a lifetime? Tho...
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Theater events: 'Hello Dolly' opening at Drury LaneOct 18, 2013 6:00 am - Ziemba is Dolly Tony Award-winner Karen Ziemba (“Contact”) stars as the titular matchmaker in Drury Lane Theatre's “Hello Dolly!” the musical by composer/lyricist J...
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Des Plaines men convicted in dumbbell attackOct 16, 2013 4:41 pm - Two Des Plaines men were found guilty Wednesday of aggravated battery for attacking another man with a dumbbell. Nicholas Ungureanu, of the 2000 block of Touhy Avenue, a...
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IDOT worker gets probation in workplace battery caseOct 15, 2013 1:00 pm - An Illinois Department of Transportation employee charged with molesting a co-worker earlier this year pleaded guilty to an amended charge today in Rolling Meadows. Edg...
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Cabdriver gets probation for molesting female passengerOct 11, 2013 6:15 pm - A Palatine cabdriver who prosecutors say molested a female passenger he picked up outside a suburban nightclub pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced ...
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Schaumburg man pleads guilty to Olympic Park burglaryOct 11, 2013 4:03 pm - A Cook County judge sentenced a 44-year-old Schaumburg man to six years in prison in exchange for his guilty plea to burglary, court records show. Daniel Anthony O’Shea...
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Theater events: Steel Beam scares up 3-D haunted houseOct 11, 2013 6:00 am - Scares in St. Charles For the third year running, Steel Beam Theatre serves up seasonal scares beginning this weekend in Kane County when theater artists and volunt...
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Split verdict in Hoffman Estates street-racing caseOct 10, 2013 3:00 pm - The surviving driver of a high-speed race that ended in an explosive crash in which two others were killed was convicted Thursday of aggravated street racing. Cook Count...
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Intimate staging key to redtwist's 'Clybourne Park'Oct 09, 2013 11:00 pm - Everybody wants a piece of “Clybourne Park.” No surprise there, considering its pedigree. Written as a companion piece to Lorraine Hansberry's seminal 1959 drama “A Rai...
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Prosecutors use photos to show horror of street-racing crashOct 09, 2013 7:48 pm - Photographs of mangled automobiles told the story of a horrific Jan. 27, 2011, collision just west of the intersection of Golf and Bartlett roads that claimed the lives ...