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Applebee's to close 8 Chicago-area restaurants

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At least eight of Applebee’s 33 restaurants in the Chicago area are expected to close as its local franchisee seeks to reorganize its operations in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a spokesman said late yesterday. The casual-dining chain has 2,000 U.S....

Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Dundee, Chicago Restaurants, Schaumburg, Roselle

Two years for Streamwood man, 53, who sent love notes to girl, 9

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A 53-year-old Streamwood man who wrote poems to a 9-year-old girl in the school where he worked and looked in her bedroom window was sentenced today to two years in prison. Peter Surges, of the 0-100 block of Pine Street, pleaded guilty in the Rolling...

Tags: Cook County Government, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Halloween, Rolling Meadows

Quinn touts tax-form donations for military families

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When Sgt. Jason Hoster deployed to Kuwait last year, the $500 checks supported his father while he underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer. During an earlier tour in Afghanistan, the cash helped his mother cover expenses. Those grants came from the...

Tags: Illinois Governor, Politics, Executive Branch, Health Treatments, Pat Quinn

West DuPage police blotter: April 9

The following items were taken from Wheaton, Glen Ellyn and Winfield police reports. Wheaton A wallet containing $150 was taken from a jacket in the men's locker room of a fitness center in the 200 block of Geneva Road between 8:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m....

Tags: Drug Trafficking, Carol Stream, Prosecution, Sunnyside (McHenry, Illlinois), Wheaton

Gas station clerk fatally stabbed in Streamwood

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A 24-year-old man died of an apparent stabbing while working overnight as a clerk in a Streamwood gas station, and police have released surveillance images of the suspected killer. At 4:36 a.m. Saturday, Streamwood police were called to the Thornton's...

Tags: Downstream Oil and Gas Activities

Girls hoops blog | Some All-State questions

The Associated Press released its Class 3A and Class 4A All-State teams Wednesday. There were some surprises. When a bunch of voters based in different areas of the state are unable to see several teams and players, the final selections can be somewhat...

Tags: Politics, Joliet, Bloomington, Plainfield (Will, Illinois), Huntley

Girls hoops | Class 3A, 4A AP All-State teams announced

Here is the Class 3A Illinois girls basketball all-state teams, as voted on by a statewide panel of sports writers and broadcasters and compiled by John Radtke of the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. CLASS 4A FIRST TEAM Linnae Harper, Young (Sr., G, 85...

Tags: Joliet, Bloomington, Plainfield (Will, Illinois), Huntley, Vernon Hills

Justice Department expands psychiatric hospital probe to 3 more Illinois facilities

A U.S. Department of Justice probe into patient care at a suburban psychiatric hospital is expanding to three other prominent Illinois facilities owned by Universal Health Services Inc., the nation's largest operator of behavioral health hospitals and...

Tags: Psychiatric Solutions Incorporated, Sexual Misconduct, Universal Health Services Incorporated, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Mental Health

Elderly woman killed in suburban head-on crash identified

An elderly woman who was killed in a head-on crash on Barrington Road in Hoffman Estates early Wednesday morning has been identified, authorities said. Helen Royce, 86, of the 1900 block of Quaker Hollow Lane in Streamwood, was pronounced dead at 5:13...

Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death, Hoffman Estates

$325K bond for man charged in Streamwood abduction

A Streamwood man was charged Sunday with abducting another man while armed with a sawed-off shotgun. Keewon Taylor, 20, of the 0-100 block of Helen Court, was charged with armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking and home invasion. He is being...

Tags: Prosecution, Lynwood, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers

FBI: Man arrested in Streamwood threatened to blow up Iowa mall

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A 22-year-old man who has ties to Chicago was arrested in Streamwood today and charged with threatening to blow up a shopping mall in Davenport, Iowa, the FBI said.   Adylbek Kozubaev was charged with one count of making a bomb threat yesterday in a...

Tags: FBI, Prosecution, Police Investigations, Police Arrests, Justice System

Man charged in Streamwood home invasion, carjacking

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A man reportedly armed with a shotgun and wanted in connection with the abduction of a man from a home in northwest suburban Streamwood Friday was charged with three felonies Saturday night after he turned himself in about 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Cook...