Kirk moved to Chicago rehab center

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke nearly three weeks ago, was transferred Friday to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Help wanted: 3,200 Great America workers

Six Flags Great America is looking for 3,200 people to fill full-time, part-time and internships for its 2012 season. The Gurnee theme park is holding four job fairs in February and March to hire seasonal positions.

Woodlawn Middle School LEGO team ‘mooves’ to victory

After they won the regional championship, they tore up the playbook and started over — and then won the state championship. Now, with the national championship looming in the spring, the Moovers are starting over again. The Moovers are a group of sixth-grade girls attending …

Congregation Beth Judea Men’s Club names man of the year

The Midwest Region of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs will hold its Man of the Year brunch at 10:30 a.m., Feb. 19 at Beth Hillel Congregation B’nai Emunah, 3220 Big Tree Lane in Wilmette. The brunch will honor the Men of the Year from …

Snow makes its way back to the area Friday

Feeling a chill in the air? Snow will be back as soon as Friday when lake effect snow could hit the city and Northwest Indiana with six inches.

Catholic cemeteries offer to bury 300 bodies stacked at morgue

The Archdiocese of Chicago is offering to pay for up to 300 burials for the bodies being held at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Buffalo Grove Park District presents ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’

The Buffalo Grove Park District’s Big Deal Productions invites you to join them for their Young Adult Theatre performance of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Taking place in New York City in 1922, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” tells the story of young Millie Dilmount, who has just moved …

Two Stevenson students arrested in drug investigation

Lincolnshire police have arrested two juveniles in connection with the alleged sale of drugs at Stevenson High School.

Buffalo Grove hires electricity consultant

Hoping to present a bundle of businesses and residences to a power supplier, Buffalo Grove has agreed to hire a consultant that will help the village select a power company, more than a month before voters can authorize or deny any bundling. Saying that the …

Special Gifts program combines therapy, performance art

Dorothy met Captain Hook in an original tale created by the children in the creative drama program of Special Gifts Theater. In four months, children age 7 to 9 with special needs, learned how to create characters, write lines, sing and act on stage in …

OTB wants to move to Buffalo Grove Golf Club

If Buffalo Grove’s leaders and a local racecourse get all their ducks in a row — or horses, rather — an off-track betting site could come to property owned by Village Hall. Trustees held their first discussion Monday night about allowing the Hawthorne Race Course …

Cubs announcer speaks at diabetes event

Cubs broadcaster Pat Hughes spoke about the team and broadcasting with Ron Santo during an event Feb. 1 at the Highland Park Hospital Health and Fitness Center, 1501 Busch Parkway in Buffalo Grove. Proceeds from the event, which was to include a silent auction and …

Sen. Kirk upgraded to ‘good’ condition, watched Super Bowl

Sen. Mark Kirk’s condition has been upgraded from “fair” to “good.”

Doctors hope to be able to re-attach the 8-inch-by-4-inch section of his skull that had to be removed after he suffered a stroke two weeks ago.

Then the Highland Park Republican can begin physical …

Stevenson, junior highs make beautiful music together

Band students from Stevenson High School and six area junior high and middle schools performed Jan. 31 at the Consortium 125 Band Festival in the SHS Performing Arts Center. Students from Aptakisic, Daniel Wright and Twin Groves junior high schools, plus Fremont, West Oak and …

Stevenson stages ‘The Miracle Worker’

This past Friday and Saturday, Stevenson High School’s Fine Arts Division staged its freshman-sophomore play, “The Miracle Worker.” The play is based on the life of Helen Keller and her relationship with Annie Sullivan, the educator who transformed her life, according to the school. Katia …