All Stories from December 30, 2024 (Change date)
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Spotlight: ‘Shucked,’ Broadway’s corn-fed tuner, plays CIBC TheatreDec 30, 2024 10:22 am - The Broadway tuner “Shucked” comes to Chicago for a brief run, Pegasus Theatre showcases teen playwrights, and Broadway vet Courtney Reed headlines Elgin’s Hemmens this week in Chicago-area theater.
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This Italian flourless chocolate torta is rich and dense yet remarkably lightDec 30, 2024 10:03 am - This flourless chocolate torta from Milk Street is a take on the sumptuous Italian cake known as torta Barozzi, created in 1886 by pastry chef Eugenio Gollini and named for 16th-century architect Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.
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Daily Herald opinion: More than a humble humanitarian: Carter’s political legacy is often overlooked and overshadowed by his work after leaving officeDec 30, 2024 9:30 am - Daily Herald opinion: There is a measure of unfortunate injustice in the assessment of Jimmy Carter as a determined humanitarian whose tireless good works in the latter half of his life overshadowed failings of his single, difficult term as United States president.
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Carolyn Hax: ‘Overly nice’ people are truly annoyingDec 30, 2024 9:00 am - “Overly nice” people are annoying, but Carolyn Hax says it’s not about their niceness. It is about their failure to recognize boundaries.
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Today’s editorial cartoonDec 30, 2024 8:47 am -
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Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actor who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87Dec 30, 2024 8:37 am - Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working-class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.
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Geneva’s Niche gets $40K ARPA grant for expansion, renovationDec 30, 2024 8:26 am - Niche, at 14 S. Third St., Geneva, is looking to expand into the neighboring space at 12 S. Third St., a currently closed retail space, to create its own boutique to complement the restaurant.
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Geneva’s historic Fargo buildings to get nearly $200K in ARPA fundsDec 30, 2024 8:24 am - The Geneva City Council approved nearly $200,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds in three economic incentive agreements with the owner of historic Fargo West State Stre...
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‘It just kind of took off’: Passion for acai bowls leads to successful business for Libertyville nativeDec 30, 2024 8:20 am - Lolo’s Bowls, a family business that has been operating in Libertyville since 2019, recently opened a second location in Lake Zurich.
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Value-seekers drove 2024’s retail trends and dead endsDec 30, 2024 8:09 am - Shoppers and restaurant patrons in the U.S. were choosy about where and how to spend their money as they wrestled with high housing and food prices.