Christopher Placek
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Arlington Heights spending $3.5 million to rebuild roads this summerMay 20, 2025 2:32 pm - Arlington Heights will spend $3.5 million on road reconstruction this summer. The project involves rebuilding 1.62 miles of deteriorated roads in residential neighborhoods on the north and south sides of town.
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Arlington Heights mayor: Bears stadium not done dealMay 19, 2025 9:41 pm - Arlington Heights Mayor Jim Tinaglia expressed caution about the Bears’ announced shift in stadium development focus back to the village, stating that there will be a process and opportunities for public input if the move is confirmed.
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More cops, new fire station needed to handle a Bears stadium in Arlington Heights?May 17, 2025 1:37 pm - Arlington Heights leaders are contemplating the manpower and resources needed to handle security and emergency response for a potential new Bears stadium in town.
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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.