I was born in Elgin, 10 minutes before my twin brother, Tim. He has since made up for his tardiness in height, towering over me today by about 1 and 1/2 feet. He and I are tied for the youngest in the family—though I like to consider myself a middle child—and have two older brothers. I grew up on one of the last standing farms in what is now the well-developed area of Prairie View. For those who do not know the town, it is a northwest suburb of Chicago sandwiched in the middle of Long Grove, Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire. I moved to Minnesota to attend Winona State University, which is situated right on the Mississippi River. During my time there, I left for six months to study abroad in Granada, Spain, where I traveled throughout the provinces and even ran with the bulls in Pamplona. I returned to Illinois in June 2007 after graduating with a B.A. in Mass Communications: Journalism and Spanish. I wrote for The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb until June 2010. There, I covered education for about two years, crime for nearly one and during my home stretch, delved into issues centered on the governments of DeKalb County and the City of Sycamore.
Local officers pulled over a Flossmoor driver in February who they thought was intoxicated. He hadn't been drinking, but police found that his friend did have something to hide.
A March 12 hearing announced earlier this month has been postponed. The forum was to offer more community members a chance to speak on the closing of the Mental Health Center. It would have been the second such meeting since November.
Local officers pulled over a driver in February who they thought was intoxicated. He hadn't been drinking, but police found that his friend did have something to hide.
Local officers pulled over a driver in February who they thought was intoxicated. He hadn't been drinking, but police found that his friend did have something to hide.
Police arrested an area man in February who they said burglarized the Target in Brookside Marketplace. He was detained in a wooded area behind the shopping complex, according to reports.
The district approved a course through Trace Paramedics last week that will allow high school seniors to earn their emergency medical technician's licenses.
Tinley Park police are investigating a local home invasion that occurred when residents left for less than one hour.
District officials finally gave the go-ahead to build a brand new concession stand at Andrew High School. The proposal was initially introduced about one year ago.
Also in the Tinley Park police reports from Feb. 2, 19 and 24, a laptop is snagged from Chuck E. Cheese's.
A sneaky customer may have made off with a car he said he was considering buying, according to police.
Also in the Feb. 21-24, 26, police reports, a man steals thousands of dollars from a relative to feed his heroin addiction and a man violates court-ordered supervision.
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Murderers and other violent offenders will now be listed in a database for 10 years after their release from prison.
A local senior citizen called the cops last week after she wired money overseas in hopes of helping her 26-year-old grandson.
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Also included in today's police blotter, an anarchy symbol is spray painted in a local park and a woman is accused of telephone harassment. These reports were pulled from Feb. 11, 12, 15 and 20.
While officers were charging a man, his lady friend decided to fight them, according to reports. Both were arrested.
Also in today's blotter, copper parts are stolen from AC units on a building's roof and a shoplifter grabs a web cam. These are the Tinley Park police reports from Feb. 21-22.
Police arrested a man who said he shot his female friend up with a bag of heroin he cooked on the stove. Though she'd been snorting it during the night, it was her first time injecting the drug, the man told police.
Village board trustees honored a handful of Tinley Park businesses this week who received 100 percent scores on their health inspections not just once, but three and sometimes, four times.
