by Eileen Daday | Nov 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Members of Hersey High School’s basketball team showed up Monday at Willow Creek’s Care Center in South Barrington, with a whopping five pallets of food for its food pantry. And that was just one of six local food pantries that received food collected by...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Steve Connell of Crystal Lake looks and sounds the part of the iconic Ebenezer Scrooge, in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And why not? Connell has played Scrooge since 1996 at theaters throughout the Chicago area, but he does not take the role lightly. The...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bryan Hatch of Des Plaines signed his letter of intent Wednesday to play college baseball at Valparaiso University. The Saint Viator senior follows in a long line of Lions to play at Division I programs in college, but his story has an interesting connection. It turns...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
A whimsical meeting between two of literature’s most beloved characters, Dorothy from Wizard of Oz and Alice from Alice in Wonderland, unfolds in Schaumburg High School’s production of the aptly named, Dorothy Meets Alice, this weekend. Performances take...
by Eileen Daday | Nov 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Five-year old Maya Patel of Arlington Heights jumped up and down after finishing a project Wednesday night at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Together with her 7-year old brother, Liam, and father, Nick, they worked to decorate framed photos of their...