Christopher Placek is a reporter at the Daily Herald. He covers news in Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, and Rosemont, focusing on education, government, and local controversies, including significant debates within school districts and municipal disputes. Placek has been featured in Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago Sun-Times, and NewsBreak, and is a three-time Peter Lisagor award winner for his political and breaking news reporting.
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By: Christopher Placek
Plans for an international youth hockey tournament in the Northwest suburbs matching players from the United States against their Canadian counterparts have been put on hold, amid strained international relations between the two countries.
By: Christopher Placek
Tucked in between one of the busiest Illinois tollways, a heavily traveled main street and a Nicor gas pipeline is the final resting place of some of the earliest settlers to what would become the Nor...
By: Christopher Placek
The billboard in Arlington Heights that teases Bears football games — none of which are played in the Northwest suburb or Northwest Indiana, for now — will be able to remain in place for another y...
By: Christopher Placek
A sprinkler head extinguished a kitchen fire Monday night inside Mitsuwa Marketplace in Arlington Heights, authorities said.
By: Christopher Placek
After nearly a half century, a new lawyer will be representing the village of Arlington Heights at the Rolling Meadows courthouse.
By: Christopher Placek
A 55-year-old woman was duped out of some $98,000 by scammers purporting to be federal agents and bank employees, Des Plaines police said Friday. In a police report filed Thursday, the victim said she...
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It will be 5 o'clock somewhere — in Arlington Heights' new “sip and stroll” outdoor downtown social district — when the first alcoholic drink is poured Thursday, July 30.
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Eric Kinkel was just a 17-year-old senior at John Hersey High School in the spring of 1977, when, bored with the Rock ‘n' Roll literature course he was taking, suggested to the teacher a unique and unlikely show-and-tell item he could bring to class: a real band.
By: Christopher Placek
Fashion Outlets of Chicago officials and Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens don't appear to be budging from their positions about paid parking at the indoor mall.
By: Christopher Placek
Years in the making, the Donald E. Stephens Rosemont History Museum will open to the public inside village hall on Tuesday, Aug. 18, officials announced. The centerpiece of the $3 million, 4,300-squar...
