Barbara Vitello
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Suburban venue, talents gear up for Chicago Improv FestivalMar 29, 2013 6:00 am - When it comes to improv, Chicago is Mecca. But despite decades as an incubator for modern improvisation and an axis for the art form, it wasn't until 1998 that the impro...
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Cook County assessor’s worker indicted in kickback schemesMar 28, 2013 5:24 pm - A Cook County Assessor’s Office employee faces charges she accepted more than $9,000 in kickbacks in exchange for helping property owners obtain refunds they were not en...
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Judge: Free ultrasounds can continue through August in ElginMar 27, 2013 4:46 pm - A federal judge on Wednesday extended until August a temporary restraining order allowing TLC Pregnancy Services to continue offering women free ultrasounds in its mobil...
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Registered sex offender sentenced for presence in school zoneMar 26, 2013 1:00 pm - A 29-year-old Buffalo Grove man pleaded guilty last week to violating a law that prohibits a convicted sex offender from being present in a school zone, court clerk reco...
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Suburbs say farewell to Rob KomosaMar 23, 2013 3:00 am - On a bright spring day, in a light-filled church on a quiet Mount Prospect street, family and friends gathered to bid farewell to Rob Komosa, a man who served as an insp...
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Local theater: Adaptation of Last SupperMar 22, 2013 6:00 am - 'The Gathering' Improv Playhouse reprises its production of “The Gathering,” Josephine Raciti Forsberg's contemporary adaptation of the Last Supper, which takes...
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Metropolis cast strong, but 'Accomplice' undone by scriptMar 22, 2013 6:00 am - One thing about the ending of “Accomplice:” Audiences won't see it coming. Not because of the copious twists and hairpin turns playwright Rupert Holmes (“The Mystery of...
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'Priscilla' out — and outrageous — in the outbackMar 21, 2013 11:00 pm - The only thing surpassing the camp quotient of “Priscilla Queen of the Desert — The Musical” is the enthusiasm with which the opening night audience greeted the jukebox ...
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Arlington Heights police charge man with trafficking teenage girlMar 21, 2013 5:54 pm - Arlington Heights police charged a Loves Park man they say acted as a pimp for a teenage girl with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking. Cook Co...
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'Smokey Joe's Cafe' moves to Royal GeorgeMar 21, 2013 5:00 am - After seeing Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's acclaimed production of “Smokey Joe's Cafe — The Songs of Lieber and Stoller” last fall, producer Jim Jensen had one thought: ...