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The Long Grove covered bridge remains a magnet for box-truck drivers with a quixotic attraction to the village’s emblematic downtown structure.
Village President Bill Jacob said a Penske truck struck the bridge along Robert Parker Coffin Road at 10:49 a.m. Saturday and became stuck.
After the air was let out of the tires, the vehicle was he said freed, he said. There was damage to the bridge. The driver, who was not identified, received a $750 ticket, Jacob said.
“The way I look at it is the bridge wins every time,” he added. “It’s the way we redesigned the cover. It’s protecting the bridge.”
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including State Farm raising Illinois homeowners insurance rates, why Apple Fest was so crowded and talking with the writer who wrote the book on (and with) Maria Pappas.
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| Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in HistoryDennis Hastert, the disgraced former US House speaker who went to prison, dies at 84
J. Dennis Hastert rose from a rural high school wrestling coach to the heights of power as the longest-serving Republican speaker of the U.S. House before an ignominious fall and imprisonment amid revelations he sexually abused youths he had coached.
Once the third most powerful elected official in the country, serving as speaker from 1999 until 2007, Hastert died of natural causes at his home in Plano while under hospice care, Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell said. He was 84.
State Farm raising Illinois homeowners insurance rates by 8%
It may not cause the sticker shock of last year’s whopping increase, but State Farm is set to raise homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by another nearly 8% this fall, according to a recent filing with the state.
Woman charged with attempted armed robbery tied to shooting at Oakbrook Center
A Chicago woman faces attempted armed robbery charges in connection with a deadly shooting last week at Oakbrook Center mall.
Woman slams CPS watchdog’s handling of probe into school board president candidate’s alleged misconduct
The woman at the center of the Chicago Public Schools inspector general’s reopened investigation into Hilario Dominguez, a candidate for Chicago Board of Education president, sent a letter yesterday denouncing the top watchdog’s handling of the sexual harassment case.
In a copy of the email obtained by the Tribune, the woman accused the Office of Inspector General of sitting on the probe — which she said she did not know existed — for five years before closing it ahead of the upcoming election without interviewing her.
Apple Fest was too crowded for attendees. Business owners say that was the point.
For small business owners, it was the kind of blockbuster weekend that makes the slow season manageable. For Chicagoans packed shoulder-to-shoulder, it was a failure of crowd control with no obvious culprit — maybe city officials, maybe online influencers, but certainly not them — that left Lincoln Avenue feeling like Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
The online debate unfolding in the days since the longtime North Side fall festival has attendees and abstainers alike asking the same question: Who is Apple Fest for?
UChicago Medicine plans $328M lab facility and expanded job training with City Colleges on the South Side
UChicago Medicine plans to spend nearly $328 million to construct a four-story laboratory facility about a mile from its flagship hospital — a building that will be part of a larger partnership with the University of Chicago and City Colleges of Chicago to expand job training on the South Side.
ALDS Game 2: Chicago White Sox ride 3-run 6th inning to a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians
Braden Montgomery was ready for “something to attack.” The White Sox right fielder batted with runners on second and third and two outs in the sixth inning and the team down by one run in Game 2 of the American League Division Series against the Guardians.
Montgomery came through with a two-run opposite-field double to right field, giving the Sox the lead. He then scored on a single by Chase Meidroth and the Sox held on for a 4-3 victory on Monday in front of a sellout crowd of 32,050 at Progressive Field.
Connor Bedard practices with Chicago Blackhawks — in a noncontact jersey — for 1st time since shoulder surgery
Star center Connor Bedard partook in Blackhawks practice for the first time this season yesterday. It’s a big step forward as the team captain, who had left shoulder surgery in July, works toward his anticipated season debut.
Column: Meet the writer who wrote the book on (and with) Maria Pappas
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A couple of years ago Maria Pappas decided to write a memoir, and to assist her in that chore, she chose writer Mark Eleveld and the proof that it was a wise choice is spread across the book’s 270 pages.
“The wealth and depth of stories that most people don’t know is really remarkable,” Eleveld tells Rick Kogan. “She is, and I’m not the only one to use this word, as does almost everybody she comes in contact with. … The word is authentic.”
Food icon: Rose Barraco-George of Vito and Nick’s pizzeria, aka Nick and Vito’s, in Chicago
Rose Barraco-George first learned how to make her family’s pizza not from her grandfather Vito, or her father Nick, but from her grandmother Mary, who created the original recipe.
Vito and Nick’s, or Nick and Vito’s depending on where you’re from, celebrated their 106th anniversary on June 25, but their beloved crackling Chicago-style thin-crust tavern pizza didn’t come until later.