Howard Peters, senior vice president of government relations for the Illinois Hospital Association, poses for a portrait Wednesday afternoon at the IHA's Naperville offices. (Danielle Gardner/Staff Photographer)
Our readers' concerns about the health care system were all over the board. But most agree that something has to change. Here is what you told us in a Naperville Sun survey in September.
CenterStage We reward big mouths
Finish that drink/brunch/show/yoga class and leave a review at Centerstage Chicago. Each week's most brilliant and helpful review wins a killer prize (think gift certificates to great places).
A suburban police patrol car recently hosted a large and perhaps inadvertently adventurous Felis Catus under its hood. “It's like nothing I've heard,” police Cmdr. Steve Husak said Friday of the incident.
Glenbard South holds off Vernon Hills for 5A win
Most teams might pack it in trailing 33-0. But Vernon Hills High School rode the right arm and legs of DaVaris Daniels to nearly pull off a stunner, falling 33-27 to host Glenbard South Saturday in an IHSA Class 5A playoff game.
'Rent' speaks to audiences of all ages
HALO Productions, a Plainfield off-Broadway performance company, is bringing "Rent" to Aurora at The Paramount Theatre, and Katie Arko, the theater's director of development, said she is excited about it.
Is recession finally over? Possibly
The economy accelerated last quarter. But is it driving off a cliff?
The car comparison is apt, because economists believe the third-quarter improvement in the nation's Gross Domestic Product depended heavily on the "cash for clunkers" program. The tax credit for first-time home buyers also had a role.
Jay-Z, Alicia Keys perform at World Series Game 1
The New York Yankees have been blasting Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”
during their playoff run. Now, the team is having the rap king perform
the song live to kick off Game 1 of the World Series. Jay-Z and fellow New Yorker Alicia Keys are set to perform the hit on
Wednesday, as the Yankees take on defending World Series champs, the
Philadelphia Phillies.
