Barbara Vitello
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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...
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Cook Co. sheriff's deputies raise money for sick infantFeb 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Look up the word do-gooder in the dictionary and you'll likely find photos of Cook County Sheriff's Deputies Kathleen Perry and Jeanne Raines. Last fall, the women, who ...
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Pinter's 'Betrayal' to open at New World RepertoryFeb 17, 2009 10:00 pm - New World Repertory Theater stages "Betrayal," the late Harold Pinter's piercing examination of marital infidelity told in reverse chronology, beginning with the bitter ...
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What qualifies as 'perjury?'Feb 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Faulty memories don't constitute perjury. Deliberately lying under oath does. Not telling all you know? Well, that's a bit trickier. If conversations between Roland Bur...
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Teen held after striking bicyclist in StreamwoodFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Had 17-year-old Darrell Hairl left his basketball game a little earlier on Tuesday, he might not be in Cook County Jail today - nor a 28-year-old bicyclist in the hospit...
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Performers add life to 'Dying City'Feb 11, 2009 10:00 pm - Christopher Shinn's confounding "Dying City" left me conflicted. Set against the backdrop of the attacks of Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq, this 2008 Pulitzer Prize final...
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Judge reduces bond on man accused of molesting 2 girlsFeb 11, 2009 10:00 pm - Cook County Judge Kay Hanlon on Wednesday reduced by half the bond of a 59-year-old Alzheimer's patient accused of molesting two young girls in Hanover Park. Bond for Ru...
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Hoffman Estates man gets probation in shootingFeb 11, 2009 10:00 pm - A lifetime without a criminal infraction earned Hoffman Estates resident Brian Nigro 30 months felony probation instead of four to 15 years in prison, after he pleaded g...
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'Joseph' making its return to Marriott TheatreFeb 10, 2009 10:00 pm - Twenty-four years after its Marriott Theatre premiere, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" returns to Lincolnshire. The Bible story-inspired musical stars Max...