Christopher Placek
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Man in critical condition, suspect in custody, after shooting at Rolling Meadows sports barJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - A 33-year-old Forest Park man is in police custody after a shooting late Monday night at a Rolling Meadows sports bar wounded three people, authorities said. A fight bet...
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Raising Cane's will make its Arlington Heights debut TuesdayJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - At long last, Raising Cane's fast food restaurant is set to open its Arlington Heights location Tuesday, with a grand opening spectacular featuring appearances by sports...
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Truck drives off after being grazed by train near Arlington Park stationJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - A semitrailer truck drove away from a crash scene after being grazed by a commuter train Monday morning as it was crossing tracks near Rolling Meadows and Palatine, offi...
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Police seek missing woman last seen Jan. 3 in Arlington HeightsJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - Arlington Heights police are looking for a 35-year-old woman who hasn't been heard from by her family in weeks. Samantha L. Vicicondi, who also goes by Samantha L. Schut...
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Family reaches settlement in 2017 party bus death of Libertyville manJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - The family of a Libertyville man who died after falling out of a moving party bus in 2017 has reached an out-of-court settlement with the bus operator, the family's atto...
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Hawthorne to reopen Arlington's shuttered OTB in Villa ParkJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - The Illinois Racing Board Thursday granted Hawthorne Race Course's request to reopen Arlington Park's off-track betting parlor in Villa Park, but five other locations fo...
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New 'Alfresco' tax at downtown Arlington Heights restaurants to begin Feb. 1Jan 19, 2022 4:00 am - It'll probably still be too cold to dine outdoors in two weeks, but that's when downtown Arlington Heights restaurant patrons will begin paying a new "Alfresco" tax. The...
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Amid sale of longtime campus near Northbrook, Allstate buys Loop building for possible new headquartersJan 19, 2022 12:00 am - Less than two months after reaching a deal to sell most of its sprawling suburban campus near Northbrook, Allstate Corp. has purchased a downtown Chicago office building...
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Dist. 220's first Black teacher discovers her great-great-uncle was a trailblazer in Arlington HeightsJan 17, 2022 4:30 am - Sharon LeCompte was a college student at Illinois State University in 1968 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated — a time when her history professor beli...
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Cook County Board approves loans for two affordable housing projects in Arlington HeightsJan 13, 2022 12:00 am - Cook County commissioners Thursday approved $2 million in 0%-interest loans to developers of two affordable housing projects in Arlington Heights. Loans of $1 million ea...