Eric Peterson
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Seven Northwest suburbs to receive backup water supply during upcoming leak repairMar 30, 2025 9:23 am - A repair to a leak in a 90-inch water main delivering water seven Northwest suburbs will require a five-day shutdown of the system beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 1.
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Bartlett native named Naval Facilities Command’s Architect & Interior Designer of the YearMar 28, 2025 2:59 pm - Bartlett native Charles Madary has been named 2025’s Architect, Landscape Architect & Interior Designer of the Year for the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC).
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La Hacienda Calavera to replace former Lalo’s Mexican Restaurant in Schaumburg by EasterMar 27, 2025 4:49 pm - La Hacienda Calavera, the second location of a 3-year-old Cicero restaurant, will open by Easter on the former site of Lalo’s Mexican Restaurant in Schaumburg.
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Construction begins on 164 high-end townhouses at Bell Works in Hoffman EstatesMar 26, 2025 1:11 pm - Officials recently broke ground on a project involving 164 townhouse units on the northeast side of Bell Works in Hoffman Estates, which will be known as The Towns at Bell Works Chicagoland.
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Schaumburg commits $47 million toward development of The District at VeridianMar 26, 2025 8:18 am - Schaumburg trustees Tuesday formalized the village’s commitment of $47 million in eligible funding toward the imminent $195 million development of The District at Veridian, a 30-acre “Main Street”-style development at the eastern end of the former Motorola campus.
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Schaumburg’s Prairie Center for the Arts expansion to coincide with village hall constructionMar 24, 2025 12:41 pm - Schaumburg officials are moving up an expansion of the Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts’ lobby that had been planned for the 2028-29 budget year to capture some cost efficiencies with the imminent construction of a new village hall next door.
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GiGi’s Playhouse namesake to spread acceptance as character in popular children’s book seriesMar 23, 2025 9:00 pm - Hoffman Estates-based GiGi’s Playhouse has been spreading awareness and acceptance of people with Down syndrome for more than 20 years, but is about to embark on a new way of doing so with young readers through the popular Harry Moon book series.
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‘The customers got us through’: Wheeling eatery’s owners recall tactics used to survive pandemicMar 22, 2025 12:45 pm - Until March 2020, the father-and-son owners of The Original Granny’s in Wheeling thought the biggest worries about their then-39-year-old restaurant would always be finding and retaining the right staff as well as keeping favored food items in stock.
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Bartlett Police Chief Pretkelis retires, revealed as department’s Facebook page ‘wizard’Mar 21, 2025 5:12 pm - Accepting both the credit and the blame for the humor of the Bartlett Police Department’s Facebook posts, Police Chief Geoffrey Pretkelis revealed himself as “the man behind the curtain” as he announced his retirement from his official position this week.
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Workers picket Nestle plant in Schaumburg, call for boycott of DiGiorno Pizza productsMar 21, 2025 1:50 pm - Approximately 200 self-described longtime Latino workers at the Nestle-owned Nation Pizza and Foods facility in Schaumburg picketed Friday morning for what they called a racially-motivated effort to trim that workforce through the use of a new eligibility requirement.