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Just after the primary election polls close Tuesday, Schaumburg trustees will vote on a proposed increase in the pay for their office -- but that wouldnt take effect until after the elections in April 2023 for some of the village board seats and April 2025 for the rest.

Experior Transport has completed its $7.5 million purchase of 55 acres from the village of Schaumburg for the trucking firms controversial but recently approved new headquarters at the southwest corner of Irving Park and Rodenburg roads.

Elevated by the inspirational words of author, educator and businessman Stedman Graham, Schaumburgs pandemic-era volunteers were honored Wednesday after a two-year delay of an annual tradition.

Schaumburg trustees Tuesday are poised to approve a new annual budget being touted as a return to normal for the village of 71,000 residents and Illinois second-largest hub of economic activity.

Amid several final objections by nearby residents, Schaumburg trustees Tuesday unanimously approved Alsip-based Experior Transports use of 55 acres in the villages southwest corner for the trucking firms new headquarters.

Tuesdays rezoning decision by Schaumburg trustees will be the final opportunity for nearby residents of Roselle and unincorporated Schaumburg Township to weigh in on Itasca-based Experior Transports plans to build a new trucking headquarters on 55 acres in the villages southwest corner.

With a 5-3 recommendation from Schaumburgs zoning board of appeals, a controversial proposal for a trucking firms new headquarters on 55 undeveloped acres in the villages southwest corner will seek final approval from trustees on April 12.

The high-end Sam & Harrys steakhouse, which closed at Schaumburgs Renaissance Hotel adjoining the convention center at the start of the pandemic, is transitioning to the Midwest-inspired Schaumburg Public House restaurant.

A British pub-style restaurant named Hop Scotch likely is on the way to a Schaumburg site that has remained vacant since the mid-1990s, when the village embarked on the redevelopment of Town Square at the southwest corner of Schaumburg and Roselle roads.

Mayors from Itasca, Bartlett, Bensenville, Elgin, Hanover Park, Roselle, Schaumburg and Wood Dale held a joint meeting in Itasca on Tuesday to create the "Stop the CPKC Coalition" which opposes the proposed Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Southern merger to create a large railway.