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These regions leverage a great quality of life — outdoor activities, cultural amenities, cost of living — to attract businesses and employees.

Local, county, state and federal officials gathered Monday to celebrate the completion of the $58.5 million, 2½-year Lake-Cook Road reconstruction project through Buffalo Grove and Wheeling.

The Chicago-areas second District Brew Yards restaurant and brewery should open this summer on Wheelings Restaurant Row.

Kathy and Mike Burns bring the holiday spirit to Wheeling every year by giving away Thanksgiving meals, wrapping presents during the Shop with the Cops event and even portraying Santa and Mrs. Claus, so it was fitting Sunday that they did the honors in turning on the villages light display.

Recreational marijuana dispensary opens for business in Wheeling Andrea Bramhall, left, serves Samion Popkov, the first customer Monday at the opening of the Hatch recreational marijuana dispensary in Wheeling. The dispensary opened Monday in a former TGI Fridays restaurant space on Lake-Cook Road. Courtesy of Hatch Customers and local officials check out the new Hatch recreational marijuana dispensary that opened Monday on Lake-Cook Road in Wheeling. Courtesy of Hatch   Upda...

Northwest suburban mayors look back on 2020   Arlington Heights Village President Tom Hayes Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer   Updated 12/31/2020 2:55 PM Not much seemed business as usual in 2020, but one thing that hasnt changed is our annual tradition of reaching out to Northwest suburban mayors and village presidents to ask them what their community accomplished in the year gone by and something they hope to accomplish in the year ahead. Today, we share the accomplishments of...