Christopher Placek
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Bears shift stadium focus back to Arlington HeightsMay 16, 2025 12:20 pm - The Chicago Bears on Friday announced a shift in focus back to Arlington Heights for their stadium development plans, after previously considering a lakefront site in Chicago.
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For $40,000, Rolling Meadows to get second opinion on Kirchoff ‘road diet’ planMay 14, 2025 6:38 pm - Rolling Meadows will spend $39,178 on a traffic study to examine the feasibility of reducing Kirchoff Road from five lanes to three.
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Rosemont’s late mayor to return — in robot formMay 14, 2025 11:06 am - Rosemont will install an animatronic figure of its late founding mayor, Donald E. Stephens, as the centerpiece of its new local history museum.
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New Arlington Heights mayor taps election opponent as his second-in-commandMay 13, 2025 6:11 pm - New Arlington Heights Mayor Jim Tinaglia choose his former election opponent Tom Schwingbeck as president pro tem of the village board for the next two years.
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Officials: $32 million Arlington Heights park refresh won’t disrupt Frontier DaysMay 12, 2025 6:25 pm - The Arlington Heights Park District is embarking on the final phases of a $32 million renovation of Recreation Park, but work is timed not to disrupt the annual Frontier Days festival held at the park.
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Supper with the pope: Wheaton restaurant hosted the future pontiffMay 09, 2025 7:28 pm - A group of theologians from Loyola University Chicago met with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton.
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‘One of our own’: Chicago archdiocese leaders happily shocked by choice of popeMay 08, 2025 8:08 pm - The Rev. Gregory Sakowicz was dispensing communion at Holy Name Cathedral when he learned the news a fellow priest from Chicago had been chosen as the next pope.
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Traveling Sept. 11 museum arrives in RosemontMay 07, 2025 12:41 pm - A traveling museum showcasing artifacts from Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City is visiting Rosemont this weekend, with guided tours by firefighters who will tell their stories.
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Arlington Heights rec center undergoing $4.8 million expansionMay 06, 2025 5:29 pm - The Arlington Heights Park District is putting on a two-story, 6,150-square-foot addition to its Arlington Ridge Center to accommodate growth in fitness classes and children’s programming.
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New Arlington Heights mayor sworn in, meets with Bears president on first dayMay 05, 2025 9:30 pm - James J. Tinaglia, an Arlington Heights architect and 12-year village trustee, was sworn in as the new mayor Monday, the same day he met Chicago Bears President/CEO Kevin Warren as the team considers developing the 326-acre Arlington Park property.