All Stories from June 29, 2012 (Change date)
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Barrington Brew Fest offers best of the brewsJun 29, 2012 9:20 am - Regional craft breweries will pour at the ninth annual Barrington Brew Fest, from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 7. Enjoy live music, tasty food and a bean bag tournament wh...
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Hanover Park to celebrate 20th anniversary with Sister CityJun 29, 2012 9:20 am - Next month marks the 20th anniversary of an unlikely bond between Hanover Park and a West African nation. In July 1992, the village signed the Hanover Park Sister Cities...
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Electric railway car celebrates birthday in South ElginJun 29, 2012 9:19 am - DuPage and Kane counties were mostly rural, and even much of the city of Chicago still had farms when the Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad began operations Aug. 25, 1902,...
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Arlington Hts. Frontier Days starts July 4Jun 29, 2012 9:00 am - Arlington Heights celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, and one of the best ways to get in the spirit is the Frontier Days Festival, which is only 37 years old. In...
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Area mayors, officials lobby for O’Hare bypassJun 29, 2012 8:43 am - Area officials are appealing to federal lawmakers to spare municipalities from having to contribute tens of millions of dollars for a planned western bypass around O’Har...
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10,000 diamonds on display at Buckingham PalaceJun 29, 2012 8:00 am - LONDON — A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace shows that diamonds are a queen's best friend. More than 10,000 of the gems are going on display in a celebration of jewel...
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Grayslake girl going to Quinn over plastic bagsJun 29, 2012 8:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — It was the ubiquitous plastic shopping bags flying around her neighborhood and scattered along the road that made Abby Goldberg want to ask her village of ...
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Flaming Lips breaks 24-hour record for live showsJun 29, 2012 7:48 am - NEW ORLEANS — It’s official: The Flaming Lips are the music world’s road warriors. The psychedelic rockers from Oklahoma set a new Guinness World Record for most live sh...
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Savannah Guthrie in place after CurryJun 29, 2012 7:47 am - NEW YORK — There’s no word if she has the job full time, but Savannah Guthrie is in Ann Curry’s former chair as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. Guthrie sat beside Matt La...
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Deadline nearing for Illinois State Fair paradeJun 29, 2012 7:42 am - SPRINGFIELD— The deadline is coming up for those who want to participate in the parade that unofficially kicks off the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Those interest...