Barbara Vitello
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Palatine teens get probation for car burglariesNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - A pair of Palatine 18-year-olds arrested in August for entering unlocked vehicles and taking items received two years probation last month in exchange for pleading guilt...
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Protection order issued for scalding victim, familyNov 29, 2010 10:00 pm - A Cook County judge entered an emergency order of protection Tuesday on behalf of a toddler whose face was scalded last week after authorities say his stepfather Santiag...
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Christmas classics not your fancy? Theaters stage a few surprisesNov 23, 2010 10:00 pm - Craving a “Carol” this holiday season? No problem. But if the idea of another version of “A Christmas Carol” has you feeling a tad Scrooge-like, there are other alternat...
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Mount Prospect man who killed mom sent to mental health facilityNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - The tragedy that began nearly two years ago for Mount Prospect's Castronovo family concluded Tuesday when a Cook County Circuit Court judge remanded Paul Castronovo to t...
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Metropolis to present 'Christmas Carol'Nov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre pairs its annual family-friendly, play-with-music production of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” with The Second City's seasonal sa...
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New book chronicles Brown's murderer's defenseNov 19, 2010 10:00 pm - The question people wanted Juan Luna to answer was the one question attorney Dennis Shere never posed. “I never asked him ‘did you do it?' It was clear that in his mind,...
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Tiny Tim role marks a new stage for 9-year-old actorNov 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Scott Calcagno was in a bind. He was preparing to direct Drury Lane Oak Brook's “A Christmas Carol” and he found himself one Tiny Tim short. “I had nobody,” said the d...
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Marriott's 'Music Man' right for these timesNov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - As autumn turns to winter, Marriott Theatre embraces summer with a zestful revival of “The Music Man,” Meredith Willson's sunny, 1957 Broadway tuner about a garrulous tr...
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Steel Beam to present Willson's 'Christmas'Nov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Steel Beam Theatre celebrates the season with Meredith Willson's “It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” a show inspired by the film “Miracle on 34th Street,” in ...
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35-year sentence in Des Plaines murderNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Cook County Circuit Court Judge Larry Axelrood fully comprehended the thankless task facing him as he prepared to sentence 20-year-old Ashur Hidou for the stabbing death...