Barbara Vitello

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Barbara Vitello

Highland Park police officers responding to a request for a well-being check fatally shot a 59-year-old man early Friday. At about 4:55 a.m., police received a report of a man lying in the street. A caller stated that the individual stood up and stumbled into a residence on the 900 block of Half Day Road, according to a statement from the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. Three officers dispatched to the scene did not see the man. So they knocked at the door of the address the caller provided.

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Barbara Vitello

The ever-authentic Namir Smallwood plays a man confronting his terminal illness in Steppenwolf Theatre's Chicago premiere of “You Will Get Sick” by Noah Diaz. Courtesy of Michael Brosilow “You Will Get Sick” — 3.5 stars Namir Smallwood is on a roll.

1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Barbara Vitello

Pondering one of the most consequential decisions he would ever make, Mike Torti asked himself: How many times in his life would he have a chance to give someone else 20 more years of theirs? For the 62-year-old Torti, the decision was a no-brainer. And on Oct. 9, he donated his kidney as part of an exchange that enabled Jacob Fill — a former neighbor whose family moved from Torti’s Elmhurst neighborhood when Fill was a toddler — to get the organ he desperately needed.

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Barbara Vitello

Kids will be looking to cool off this weekend, when forecasters expect the season’s first heat wave is to arrive, bringing high temperatures in the mid-90s to the suburbs. Brian Hill/[email protected], File High temperatures rising into the low 90s in some parts of the suburbs Tuesday foreshadow the season’s first heat wave, which National Weather Service meteorologists expect will envelop the Chicago area and much of the Midwest this weekend.

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Barbara Vitello

Musical swings are one of several new interactive art installations making up Cantigny's summerlong Feast of the Senses celebration. Courtesy of Cantigny Swing time at Cantigny Earlier this month, Cantigny, 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, debuted musical swings, a new interactive art installation created by Daily Tous Les Jours. It’s part of the summerlong Feast of the Senses celebration, which includes custom murals and tree swings. Admission starts at $6 per vehicle, $30 per RV. cantigny.org.