Barbara Vitello
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$500,000 bond for man charged in sex caseMar 03, 2009 10:00 pm - A Cook County judge set bond at $500,000 Tuesday for 27-year-old, Palatine resident Javier Alarcon-Torres, charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault o...
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Caregiver gets two years for abuse of elderly womanMar 03, 2009 10:00 pm - Stefania Lisowska was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for abusing a 60-year-old woman in her care last year outside the woman's Inverness home, Cook County Judg...
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'Lend me a Tenor' to open at MetropolisMar 03, 2009 10:00 pm - When an accidental overdose keeps the great tenor Il Stupendo from performing, his assistant Max goes on in his place in Ken Ludwig's door-slamming farce "Lend Me A Teno...
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Steel Beam's 'Greater Tuna' tasty, but without biteFeb 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Don't be fooled by the "Greater Tuna" catchphrase describing the play as a "comedy about Texas' third smallest town - where the Lions Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline...
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What's new on stageFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - 'Caveman' returns The battle of the sexes resumes with the arrival of "Defending the Caveman" at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. Rob Becker's frequently revived o...
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Nationwide prostitution sting yields local arrestsFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - A number of suburban police departments along with sheriff's departments from Cook, DuPage and Lake counties assisted the FBI in a nationwide anti-prostitution sting tha...
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$100,000 bond with conditions set for arson suspectFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - It took some subtle police work for Elk Grove Village authorities to track down the woman suspected of starting a fire Wednesday afternoon at Food 4 Less. But, there wa...
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'Super' drug charge could bring long prison sentenceFeb 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Super Class X felony. If the charge, reserved for narcotics offenses doesn't send shivers down the spine of a defendant, the 60-year maximum sentence might. Bartlett r...
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Fallout on the home front fuels 'Old Glory'Feb 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Brett Neveu has clearly saved the best for last. "Old Glory," the final play in Neveu's trilogy examining the impact of the war on terror and the war in Iraq on ordinar...
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Goodman's 'The Hairy Ape' a searing successFeb 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Watching The Hypocrites' searing version of Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" isn't easy. But turning away from it, especially in its final wrenching moments, is impossib...