Author: Voxtrend News
I regret reading in last Sunday’s Tribune (“Tribune’s film critic Michael Phillips says so long for now”) that readers will no longer have access to Michael Phillips’ informed movie reviews. No matter what part of the paper I skipped over, I always read Phillips. His April review of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” was nothing short of brilliant. How well he understood the many facets of that challenging film. I can only hope some other Chicago publication will take advantage of his availability, and I can again read his reviews, full of knowledge and sensitivity to film. — Patricia Groh, Wilmette Goodbye to…
Olena Konovaliuk of Chicago fears she might never again see her family in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where she was born and raised, as Russian President Vladimir Putin demands the land be relinquished to Moscow during ongoing U.S.-led peace talks. Giving up Donbas — or any portion of the war-torn nation — is unfathomable to Konovaliuk and many other locals of Ukrainian descent, who insist their entire homeland must be sovereign without exception or partial surrender. “This sounds threatening to me because my family is still there. It is like saying, ‘Please take off your arm and give…
Potential remedies for an unlit Mundelein intersection — about which an area resident raised concerns to the Lake County Board — remain unclear, with the state and village disputing who is even responsible for overhead lighting there. Wayne Thoren of Mundelein told the board he is worried about safety at the Hawley Street and Route 60/83 intersection. Hawley is a county road, and Route 60/83 belongs to the state. Beyond lacking overhead lighting, Thoren said the intersection is also prone to fog, which he attributed to nearby golf courses. That, combined with what he feels is overly high speeds, is…
Two Lake County parents were arrested after their three children were found living in “horrid conditions” and child pornography was found in the father’s possession, Lake County sheriff’s officials announced Friday. Logan Jentink, 29, and Sandra Zaluski, 23, of Fox Lake, each face three counts of child endangerment and five counts of cruel treatment of an animal. Additionally, Jentink faces seven counts of possessing child pornography, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. An investigation began after sheriff’s detectives received a tip from an online cloud storage website indicating a device in Lake County had uploaded child pornography to…
The city of Aurora’s Fiestas Patrias celebration, including the first parade to be held for the holiday in Aurora since 2019, is set to take place this coming weekend. A free, all-day festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, with the parade set for Sunday, according to a city news release. The events are being put on by the city in partnership with its Hispanic Heritage Advisory Board. The Aurora Fiestas Patrias Festival has been a staple in the city over the years. It took a hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, with the site then moving…
Over Labor Day weekend, the Bean hosted a surprise daily ritual. In the late afternoon, tourists gazing at the sculpture would be pulled away from their selfies by the raucous sound of a second-line band. The Windy City Ramblers — led by the bouncy trumpeter Mario Abney and, sometimes, his two pint-sized kids — would then process into Pritzker Pavilion. Throngs would follow them, like jerseyed Pied Pipers. Don’t be shy, the procession seemed to say. This is where you should be. Welcome to the Chicago Jazz Festival, on locals’ calendars but often a happy discovery for the many holiday-weekend…
The Kane County Board Finance Committee is recommending a revised suggestion for how county departments and offices should cut their spending this year, as the county continues to grapple with its impending multimillion-dollar shortfall. Earlier this month, the county board considered a proposal to recommend offices and departments reduce their budgeted expenses to the amounts they spent in 2024 to help close the gap. But the possibility of legal issues with the timing of that recommendation as well as an alternate expense-cutting proposal led the board to send the issue back to the Finance Committee rather than passing it. Now,…
A tense silence hung over the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday night as the roll call vote began. Just hours earlier, community members had packed the room, urging the board to pass a 2025-26 budget that spared classrooms from cuts. At the heart of the debate was a $200 million high-interest loan and a disputed pension payment for nonteaching CPS staff members — both backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, both left out of the district’s proposal. As Johnson-appointed board members Ed Bannon, District 1A, Anusha Thotakura, District 6A, and Cydney Wallace, District 8B, quietly broke ranks, gasps rippled through…
After voicing concerns in July that U.S. travel bans could delay some students’ return to school, Orland High School District 230 Superintendent Robert Nolting said Thursday he has not received reports that students are late due to the bans. Nolting said the district has a large population of families that regularly take the summer to visit family abroad, and said there’s usually delays in students returning every year. This year, he said the district anticipated a higher number of late students due to U.S. travel bans enacted under President Donald Trump in early June, as some students visit family in countries…
During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event. The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World’s Fair with its latest exhibit, World of Tomorrow: A Century of Progress, which opened Friday and runs through Jan. 4. The Century of Progress Exposition on Chicago’s Northerly Island wasn’t planned just as an exhibition. It was also a rallying cry. “They wanted to be able to instill hope. They wanted to give a little bit of happiness,” said Sara Cox, the museum’s curator of exhibits. Still, that fair remains…