Eric Peterson
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Schaumburg approves design guidelines for northeast gateway on Algonquin RoadMar 12, 2025 4:44 pm - Schaumburg officials are protecting their recent investment in the aesthetics of the village’s northeast gateway on Algonquin Road by adopting design regulations for two small properties adjacent to the spruced up corner.
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Shining achievement: Suburban Rotarians provide computer lab at Ugandan schoolMar 12, 2025 11:54 am - The Rotary Club of River Cities — which supports the communities of Des Plaines, Mount Prospect and Prospect Heights — recently led an international project that installed a computer lab at Candle Light High School in Kampala, Uganda, which serves more than 400 of the capital city’s most under-resourced young people.
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Ascension hospitals share strengths of new smaller system with Schaumburg business communityMar 11, 2025 2:21 pm - Though Schaumburg has no hospital within its borders, leaders of the three Ascension hospitals that directly serve the community spoke to the Schaumburg Business Association Tuesday about the strengths of their smaller health care system.
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O’Hare’s Pub in Bartlett to close Tuesday at third and final locationMar 10, 2025 5:46 pm - Tuesday will be the final day for O’Hare’s Pub in Bartlett, which acquired a loyal following over more than 11 years at three successive locations.
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Legislators urge business community to engage: ‘Democracy is interactive’Mar 07, 2025 3:50 pm - A bipartisan panel of Illinois legislators told members of the Schaumburg business community Friday that sharing their concerns with government remained the most effective way to improve it.
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Candidates for Hanover Park president debate bringing back 1% municipal grocery taxMar 07, 2025 12:18 pm - Both candidates for Hanover Park village president see a different answer to the question of how to address the state’s decision to stop imposing a 1% grocery tax on municipalities’ behalf now that each has the authority to have its own.
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Obama archive in Hoffman Estates planned move to Maryland before appearance on DOGE listMar 06, 2025 3:13 pm - The Department of Government Efficiency recently claimed to end an annual $1.48 million lease of a Hoffman Estates building as the temporary archive of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, but the materials’ imminent move to a permanent site in Maryland had already been announced last August.
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Barrington trustee candidates discuss state of efforts for improved rail safety in villageMar 05, 2025 2:33 pm - Four candidates seeking three Barrington village trustee seats recently discussed efforts to improve pedestrian rail safety in town a year after a Barrington High School student was struck and killed on the Union Pacific tracks downtown.
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Two write-in candidates create contested race for District 211 school board electionMar 04, 2025 1:08 pm - The declaration of two write-in candidates has made the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board of education election on April 1 contested for the first time since two different candidates were removed from the ballot in December.
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Fundraisers started to help pay funeral costs of teens killed by carbon monoxide poisoningMar 03, 2025 10:18 pm - GoFundMe campaigns have been created to help pay for the funerals of two high school students who died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning inside a vehicle early Sunday morning in Hoffman Estates.