Steve Zalusky
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‘Above and beyond in every way’: Palatine school custodian wins national honorApr 22, 2024 5:16 pm - Mario Diaz Albarran’s goal as head custodian at Lincoln Elementary School in Palatine is to serve the kids and make a difference in their lives. After Monday’s assembly i...
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Olympic coach teaching new generation of karate kids, adults in BarringtonApr 22, 2024 8:17 am - If you want Olympic-style karate training, travel no farther than Barrington. Brian Mertel, who coached one of the athletes in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, recently opened The Garden Dojo.
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‘They are part of our community’: Cloud hangs over suburban Passover celebrationsApr 22, 2024 5:30 am - Passover is a celebration of liberation and freedom, commemorating the end of the Jews’ captivity in Egypt. But a pall hangs over this year’s celebration, when hostages r...
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‘Like losing a friend’: Shoppers say goodbye to Stratford Square Mall on final dayApr 21, 2024 5:54 pm - The stores were dark and shuttered Sunday at Stratford Square Mall in Bloomingdale, but that didn’t matter to visitors who wandered the corridors and rode the escalators ...
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‘They just did things the right way’: Palatine honors Pirate basketball squadApr 16, 2024 6:26 pm - It was a historic year for the Palatine High School boys basketball team, which made it downstate for the first time in school history and returned with a 4th place troph...
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Palatine council takes a pass on Gaza cease-fire resolutionApr 16, 2024 10:36 am - Palatine leaders declined Monday to formally support calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, but said they will relay advocates’ message to the village’s congressional representa...
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Barrington considering TIF district for downtown redevelopmentApr 15, 2024 7:56 pm - Barrington is taking its first steps toward creating a new tax increment financing district to spur redevelopment in the “Golden Triangle” area of the village’s downtown....
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Fuel leaks into Buffalo Grove pond; source remains unclearApr 15, 2024 7:55 pm - What appears to be a small amount of diesel fuel leaked into a detention pond in a Buffalo Grove business park last week, village officials said. Buffalo Grove fire and p...
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Mount Prospect residents highly satisfied with services, survey saysApr 15, 2024 12:18 pm - Ninety-one percent of Mount Prospect residents are satisfied with the overall quality of village services, according to the results of a community survey conducted by ETC...
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Fire destroys Fox Lake home, displaces residentsApr 14, 2024 11:39 am - No one was injured in a fire at a Fox Lake home late Saturday night, but the blaze rendered the house a complete loss. Fox Lake firefighters arrived at the single-family ...