WOODSTOCK – The City Council likely will decide whether to allow the demolition of Grace Hall to proceed at its meeting Tuesday.

MARENGO – A couple of months after the Shady Lane theater was destroyed by a fire, workers started cleaning up the old site of the long-shuttered playhouse.

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn emerged from his first legislative session without the tax increase he wanted. Instead, he wound up with a rickety patchwork budget, the chore of deciding where to cut spending and a budding reputation as an indecisive flip-flopper.

LUDINGTON, Mich. – Great Lakes water levels are rebounding after a decade-long slump that hammered the maritime industry and even fed conspiracy theories about plots to drain the inland seas that make up nearly one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water.