Lincolnshire News

As fall benefits enrollment approaches, employers will need to prepare for what one expert calls "the biggest change to occur in employee benefits since managed care": the introduction of public and privately run health insurance exchanges.

Music by two of the best American composers of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, will conclude the 66th orchestral season of the West Suburban Symphony in Hinsdale Sunday afternoon.

Wheeling High School will be headed by a new principal next year, according to a news release issued by Northwest Suburban High School District 214.

No one was hurt, and property damage was minimal, when one of the industrial businesses in the Lincolnshire Corporate Center experienced a fire Tuesday.

Lincolnshire has put out a call for developers interested in two parcels sandwiching the Fresh Market grocery under construction at Milwaukee Avenue and Half Day Road.

Since taking office in January, Rep. Brad Schneider has visited six schools in the 10 th Congressional District and met with students in other places including his offices in Washington and Lincolnshire .

Gurnee has struck another deal with a company that will provide electricity at a cheaper rate than ComEd for homes and small businesses.

A group of Northwest suburbs that banded together last year to acquire electricity for their residents and small businesses will save more than 8 percent over ComEd's published price over the next 12 months, a Buffalo Grove official said this week.

The Young Ensemble from the Academy @ Citadel Theatre will showcase their knowledge of the Epic Theatre performance style 7 p.m. May 14-15 at 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, is currently presenting the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite South Pacific .

The 83-year-old Music Institute of Chicago is expanding its music learning opportunities in the northern suburbs and picked Lake Forest as the place to do it.

Lincolnshire police arrested a Glenview woman for stealing $255,000 from a Lincolnshire man while working as his full-time nurse , Daily Herald reported.

ALCOHOL Four teens were charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor May 2 in Augusta Park .

Justin Kolpak, a Stevenson High School senior from Buffalo Grove, examines the Wakey Wakey Eggs & Bakey burger, one of four new creations from the Introduction to Business class offered on May 2 at Tom & Eddie's. The Krunch will be on the Vernon Hills restaurant's menu until May 31.

Five Advocate Condell Medical Center associates were recently named Annual MVP Award winners for 2012.

Stay "In the Loop" with Northbrook-On-Ice, 7 p.m. May 10, 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. May 11, and 1 p.m. May 12, at the Northbrook Sports Center, 1730 Pfingsten Road.

A massive touch screen that helps guests gather the latest news, media pods that provide an intimate seating for work, and audience interaction devices are among the latest technology that help business travelers do their job more easily.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – The fifth annual Rock 4 Autism event, which benefits the Lake in the Hills-based Northern Illinois Center for Autism, will be held Sunday.

The 18-hole golf course at the Lincolnshire Marriott Resort reopened May 1, two weeks after the Des Plaines River and the creek that runs through the property burst their banks and nearly entered some of the buildings.

The seven North and Northwest suburbs that partnered early on in the widespread electric aggregation trend have saved millions of dollars in the first year of the contract, so they've decided to pursue a second.