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Sue Martinovich replaced the pipes, overhauled the kitchen and renovated the rest of the building, banishing a musty, fusty odor that - for decades - hung in the air of the century-old Pleasanton Hotel like an unwanted ghost.

Michael Smith admits he doesn't talk much about his Web site or weekly blog with the staff, school board or community in his rural Oakland, Ill., district, because most folks probably don't know what a blog is.

Tickets are now available for Trials and Tribulations: The Story of the 1847 Matson Slave Trial program in Oakland, Ill., Sept.

The City Council over the past 14 years has passed at least 16 retroactive zoning or other land-use changes.

Safelite AutoGlass has plans to mount a national television advertising campaign beginning in October, a strategy that its leaders are confident will double business.

Carry Nation, known for her hatchet-swinging, saloon-smashing escapades, told a large Elgin crowd a century ago that the nation's drinking woes are clearly the fault of one political party.

Broadband Internet access is now nearly universal, with rural areas closing the gap with metropolitan areas, says a new report from Internet audience measurement company comScore Inc.

* Earl J. Jones , 24, of 502 Ottawa St. in Joliet, was arrested Thursday by Will County police and booked into the county jail on charges of possession of a controlled substance, violating seat belt laws and driving with an expired license.

Major-league career: Played for Oakland from 1979-84, 1989-93, 1994-95, 1998; New York 1985-89; Toronto 1993; San Diego 1996-97, 2001; Anaheim 1997; New York 1999-2000; Seattle 2000; Boston 2002; Los Angeles 2003.

The Wheelmen are a group of bicycle enthusiasts who celebrate the history of cycling.

It's only been four weeks that 7-year-old Grace Moderwell of Lake Forest has been taking a local product called Speak to help with her verbal apraxia, but already her mom can tell the difference.

June 1, 2009 This is the final installment in a three-part series on executive management issues.

When I was a child, it seemed impossibly exotic. When I was an adolescent, it seemed impossibly tacky: Trader Vic's in St.

When Oakland Elementary School opened in 1958, only 10 of what would become 17 classrooms were open, and former principal Cliff Houghton recalled that "the rest of the building was nothing but a shell." This was the first third-grade class at Oakland Elementary when the school opened in 1958.

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"Four dances, each evoking a very different perspective on love, and each revealing something intriguing about the choreographer who created them." That is how Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater describes the company's spring program, set to run Wednesday through May 10 at the Auditorium Theatre.

The music director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Sacramento Philharmonic will serve as artistic adviser during the Peoria Symphony Orchestra's 2009-2010 season, the orchestra announced Wednesday.