Way back in August, Arlington Heights Mayor Tom Hayes cut the ceremonial ribbon, officially opening Gerry's Cafe. On Monday night, at the Arlington Heights Village board meeting, Hayes presented its co-founders, Natalie Griffin and Amy Philpott with the Disability...

Russell Puetz of Arlington Heights never set out to be a featured soloist when he took his seat with the Arlington Heights Community Concert Band way back in 1980. But over the years he has been a mainstay in the brass section, with his trumpet, and on Sunday he will...

Singer Sean Heffernan grew up in Arlington Heights, where he readily admits that he spent his formative years playing in and around Pioneer Park. His antics gave him ample fodder for an original song, called Pioneer Park, which last year won the first songwriting...

After an unprecedented sold-out run of The Addams Family: The Musical, officials at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre added one more show. Closing night now takes place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8. Artistic Director Brendan Ragan points to several reasons for its...

Tricia Fugelstad spent more than 30 years at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, as an award winning art teacher known for integrating technology into her art lessons. She has been recognized by the National Art Education Association, the Illinois Art...

Aditya Gupta of Rolling Meadows is an Illinois Junior Chess Champion and a Chess National Master. Just this year, he was one of five students chosen nationally to receive the Chess Scholar Award from the U.S. Chess Federation. Yet, it's not the awards that are driving...

Coming from the city of Kalush, in western Ukraine, Vitalii Strutynskyi and his family fled to the Czech Republic first, where they assembled documents to come to this country. When he arrived at Saint Viator last year, he says his biggest barrier was the language....

Three Catholic parishes in Arlington Heights are collaborating to host a 5K/1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Saturday to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Society and outreach ministry at each of the churches. Our Lady of the Wayside, St. James and St. Edna's  -- whose combined...

Mary Lenz Wieman is being remembered today, 22 years after she died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Arlington Heights native, who attended Our Lady of the Wayside School, Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Rolling Meadows and the...

More than 100 members of Hersey's class of 1973 descended on the school last month and their thoughts turned to a simpler time. When they began as freshmen the school had been open only one year and much of the neighborhoods surrounding it was still farmland. For...