With industrial manufacturing among the strongest sectors of today s economy, Schaumburg officials plan to investigate the revitalization of a nearly 60-year-old, 600-acre industrial park along the southern edge of the village.
From plank roads to toll roads, and one-room school houses to flourishing universities, the suburbs and the Daily Herald have grown up since the newspaper s founding in 1872.
Schaumburg trustees will hold a public hearing Tuesday about the creation of a special taxing area that will allow the village to collect property taxes from a trucking company to pay for land maintenance the firm wouldn t or couldn t do itself at its new headquarters.
Amid widespread storm damage including from a tornado and an extreme-heat warning, several suburbs are looking at multiday cleanups and power outages that could last into Wednesday afternoon. The National Weather Service reported Tuesday evening that Monday s storms included a tornado that touched down and traveled 2.2 miles from Schaumburg Township to Roselle.