Lifestyle Stories from December 25, 2015 (Change date)
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Des Plaines Art Guild to learn about new art suppliesDec 30, 2015 8:00 pm - A representative from Dick Blick Art Materials will be advising members and guests about new art supplies at the next meeting of the Des Plaines Art Guild (dpag.org) set...
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Itasca Continues the Christmas Tradition of the LuminariaDec 28, 2015 8:01 am - At Christmas, Itasca resembles a New England village. It is nothing less than a picture-perfect reflection of Christmas past. Every Christmas Eve, the village is aglow ...
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Naval recruits kick back at Arlington Heights Christmas partyDec 27, 2015 9:14 am - The plates were piled high with a filling Christmas meal, and the smiles were as wide as the trays the naval recruits carried as they maneuvered through the line in the ...
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Santa, firefighters cheer sick kids at Advocate Sherman HospitalDec 27, 2015 6:41 am - The Elgin Fire Department escorted a special visitor through the halls of Advocate Sherman Hospital on Christmas morning - Santa. The jolly man in red visited some of th...
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Homeless and nonhomeless mingle at annual St. Charles Christmas brunchDec 27, 2015 9:14 am - More than 100 people of all ages - some homeless, others not - gathered at the Free Methodist Church in St. Charles Friday to share a potluck meal at the annual Christma...
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HEY! These are the best song lyrics of 2015Dec 28, 2015 5:23 am - Like it or not, humanity is adapting to this fractious information age. Hungry and distracted, we now absorb our brain-vitamins from an infinity of crumbs. So if you lov...
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Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing 'The Big Short'Dec 28, 2015 5:23 am - Like its subject matter, "The Big Short" is hard to describe. Based on Michael Lewis' best-selling 2010 nonfiction book about a small group of money managers who made mi...
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The 'Dogist' blog and book makes dogs look humanDec 28, 2015 5:08 am - LOS ANGELES - Elias Weiss Friedman has photographed thousands of dogs for his blog and book "The Dogist." What sets his pictures apart is how human he makes his canines ...
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Sweet victory: The parsnip has its dayDec 26, 2015 7:00 am - "I'm a facultative vegetarian," my friend said, when asked whether she'd eat our Thanksgiving turkey. Which meant, she explained, that her vegetarianism was situational....
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1904 World's Fair souvenir is a shoe inDec 28, 2015 11:06 am - Q. Enclosed is a photo of a pair of porcelain shoes that belonged to my grandmother. On the bottom of each shoe are the words "World's Fair - 1904." They are a cream and...
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