All Stories from November 29, 2024 (Change date)
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Crystal Lake’s new yarn store aims to unite craft communityNov 29, 2024 11:53 am - Crystal Lake resident Kendall Nolan always wanted to open her own yarn store since tagging along as a child at the shop where her mother worked in Chicago. Now, after retiring from a long career as a credit director of a multinational engineering firm in California and Nevada, she’s back in Illinois with the grand opening of her store, Colorways Yarn Shoppe.
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Holiday online shopping scams expected to surge on Cyber MondayNov 29, 2024 11:48 am - Cyber Monday is prime time for high-risk online shopping scams, the Better Business Bureau warns.
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The Biz Week That Was: Chocolate dreams, a new Porsche dealership in the works, a sushi farewellNov 29, 2024 11:42 am - The Biz Week That Was: Chocolate dreams, a new Porsche dealership in the works, a sushi farewell are among the highlights.
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Time runs out: Bears fire coach Matt Eberflus a day after stunning defeat; Brown takes overNov 29, 2024 11:39 am - DETROIT — The Bears finally pulled the trigger. For the first time, the organization has fired its head coach during the season. The Bears fired third-year head coach Mat...
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Sheriff: Man charged with domestic batteryNov 29, 2024 11:02 am - A Waukegan man is accused of slashing a family member with a box cutter and threatening others on Thanksgiving, authorities said.
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Yacht rock gets celebrated — smoothly, of course — in new documentaryNov 29, 2024 10:38 am - Time to relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-’70s songs of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross take center stage Friday in the Max doc “Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary.”
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Barrington-based group walks the walk in fostering adoption solutionsNov 29, 2024 10:31 am - As thousands of children in Illinois await adoption, one Barrington nonprofit is doing its part to find them permanent homes. Let It Be Us operates out of a small office, but it has big goals as it seeks to match children and teens with loving families.
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Libertyville High grad making good on a sweet dreamNov 29, 2024 10:30 am - While many spend a lifetime figuring out what they want to be when they grow up, Shane Wimmer knew from an early age that he wanted to make a career out of creating sweet treats.
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To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to lean how to breathe againNov 29, 2024 9:01 am - Angelina Jolie never expected to hit all the notes. But finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her. “The first few weeks were the hardest because my body had to open and I had to breathe again.”
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Buckle up for some IHSA football title game predictionsNov 29, 2024 6:00 am - It’s that time of year again as we offer predictions for this weekend’s IHSA football championship games.