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Restaurants like VAI’s Italian Inspired Kitchen + Bar in Naperville can now host happy hour drink promotions after the Naperville City Council voted to lift a local ban. (Steve Metsch/Naperville Sun)

Happy hour ban on drink specials lifted in Naperville

The ban on happy hour drink specials in Naperville, in place for at least a decade, has been lifted by the Naperville City Council, allowing local restaurants and bars to offer special drink promotions.

A rendering of Your 3rd Spot, which is planned for the Main Street-like District at Veridian development at the southwest corner of Algonquin and Meacham roads in Schaumburg. (Mancini Duffy)

Buttermilk Cafe, Your 3rd Spot bringing dining, nightlife to Veridian in Schaumburg

Everything from breakfast and lunch to nightlife is covered by the first two commercial tenants of a 321-unit high-rise apartment building that’s part of the first phase of the 30-acre Main Street-style development taking shape at the southwest corner of Algonquin and Meacham roads in Schaumburg.

Angry Chickz, a Nashville hot chicken concept from Los Angeles, is bringing the heat to Aurora with its first Illinois location Friday at 1167 N. Eola Road. (Angry Chickz)

The heat is on: Angry Chickz brings Nashville hot chicken to Aurora Friday with first Illinois location

Angry Chickz, a Nashville hot chicken concept from Los Angeles, is bringing the heat to Aurora with its first Illinois location.

Fat Rosie’s will feature a Cantarito for its next “Cinco de Drinko” event Saturday, Sept. 5. $2 from every featured drink sold will go to No Kid Hungry. (Eric Kleinberg)

Dining out: Cinco de drinko at Fat Rosie’s, dining deal for educators at Kona Grill

It’s Cinco de Drinko time again at Fat Rosie’s locations Saturday, where you can enjoy live entertainment, face painting and a featured cocktail that benefits No Kid Hungry. Also, Kona Grill in Oak Brook is thanking educators who recently returned to school with a BOGO entree deal.

Scott Kent of Batavia, front left, releases a shot as his teammate Brian Beling of North Aurora supervises during a state championship kubb match in Batavia in 2020. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)

Batavia club to host Viking lawn game state tournament

The Energy City Kubb club is hosting a state championship Saturday for the Viking lawn game called kubb, and invites newcomers to learn how to play.

Susan P. Anderson plays one of the six Poets who recount the “unshakeable attraction” and the endless brutality of war in Janus Theatre’s version of “An Iliad” by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare. (Janus Theater Company)

Ever-timely epic: Elgin’s Janus Theatre revives ‘An Iliad’

Ten years after Janus Theatre Company staged “An Iliad,” director Sean Hargadon revisits the play adapted from Homer’s epic poem, this time with an all-female cast.

Real-life married couple Timothy Edward Kane and Kate Fry play embattled former spouses and co-workers in Northlight Theatre’s premiere adaptation of the newspaper dramedy “The Front Page.” (Jeffrey L. Kurysz photo)

Fall theater preview: Plenty of intriguing musicals and plays coming to suburban, Chicago stages

World and regional premieres are among the productions scheduled to run on suburban and Chicago stages this fall.