Entertainment Stories from April 9, 2025 (Change date)
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New Philharmonic presents ‘Butterfly Lovers’ violin concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony 4Apr 09, 2025 10:20 pm - “Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents conce...
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Ron Onesti: Where have all the ballrooms gone?Apr 09, 2025 8:13 pm - My dad would tell me about how it was during his 20s at the old ballrooms. Although these ballrooms were all pretty much built from 1910-1930, in the 1940s the Jazz Age morphed into the Big Band or Swing Era, and dancing became more of an athletic experience, rather than acceptable choreography.
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Easter egg hunts and events for kids, teens and adults across the suburbsApr 09, 2025 7:04 pm - With Easter on Sunday, April 20, here are some of the egg hunts and other Easter events happening this weekend in the suburbs.
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Fractured family: Steppenwolf’s ‘The Book of Grace’ an apt metaphor for a fractured nationApr 09, 2025 6:57 pm - Steppenwolf Theatre’s superbly acted, of-the-moment “The Book of Grace,” by Suzan-Lori Parks, depicts a fractured family, which serves as a metaphor for a fractured nation grappling with xenophobia, immigration and separation.
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Jon Hamm steals expensive stuff and likely viewers’ hearts in Apple TV+’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’Apr 09, 2025 5:40 pm - “Your Friends & Neighbors” begins with a once high-flying hedge fund manager waking up in someone else’s luxurious house, next to a dead body and in a pool of blood. How he ended up there consumes the first season of this compelling Apple TV+ series starring Jon Hamm.
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Batavia Depot Museum marks 50th anniversary with exhibit on its historyApr 09, 2025 5:07 pm - Batavia Depot Museum exhibit marks 50 years since community effort moved historic train depot across Fox River to become museum, chronicling city's history
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Elton John, ‘Hamilton’ and more enter National Recording RegistryApr 09, 2025 3:15 pm - Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” and the original Broadway cast album for “Hamilton” are among the 25 selections entering the National Recording Registry this year.
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Schaumburg Library to celebrate pop culture locally with its own Comic Con April 26Apr 09, 2025 2:42 pm - The Schaumburg Township District Library will hold its own local Comic Con from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at its Central Library, 130 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg.
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Rolling Meadows restaurant temporarily closing for rebrandApr 09, 2025 1:57 pm - A Central Asian restaurant in Rolling Meadows has temporarily closed for renovations. A new concept is planned, officials said.
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Squire Ale House offers something old, something new to diners in Campton HillsApr 09, 2025 12:03 pm - After months and months of promising to be open “next month,” Squire Ale House finally welcomed its first guests to the Campton Hills restaurant a few weeks ago.
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