Entertainment Stories from September 2, 2025 (Change date)
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Elmhurst’s Rock the Block Party returns Sept. 5-6Sep 02, 2025 10:31 pm - The Rock the Block Party is a family-friendly street festival in Elmhurst City Centre featuring live music, food vendors, and beer/wine tents.
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Good Old Days celebrates 57th year with parades, contests, toursSep 02, 2025 9:26 pm - Winfield's annual three-day festival features live music, food, contests, parade, kids activities, car show, and more family fun over the weekend of Sept. 5-7.
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Plan to convert historic bank building into restaurant could be ‘a major change for the downtown,’ Des Plaines officials saySep 02, 2025 8:29 pm - A historic building in downtown Des Plaines will be renovated and turned into a restaurant under a multimillion-dollar plan approved Tuesday by the city council.
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Metropolis chooses theater veteran as new executive directorSep 02, 2025 8:12 pm - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has appointed Tiffany Gates as its new executive director, officials with the downtown Arlington Heights venue announced Tuesday.
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Appeals court upholds dismissal of defamation complaint against MetropolisSep 02, 2025 2:40 pm - The Illinois Appellate Court upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a former artistic director’s complaint that Metropolis Performing Arts Centre representatives made defamatory statements about him and damaged his reputation.
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5 new cast members join ‘Saturday Night Live’ after high-profile departuresSep 02, 2025 2:38 pm - Five new cast members will join the upcoming season of “Saturday Night Live,” NBC announced Tuesday on the heels of several high-profile departures.
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Enjoy vino, brews and tunes at Geneva’s Festival of the VineSep 02, 2025 1:40 pm - Geneva's Festival of the Vine returns with nine music groups, food dishes, wines, beers and ciders, as well as an arts & crafts fair, over three days from Sept. 5-7.
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St. Charles restaurateur among featured chefs for Cooking Up a Cure fundraising eventSep 02, 2025 1:20 pm - The executive chef of The Graceful Ordinary, a destination restaurant in downtown St. Charles, will be featured in Cooking Up a Cure, a fundraising event for the Scleroderma Foundation of Greater Chicago.
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Go Nordic for a day with food, music and Vikings at Vasa ParkSep 02, 2025 12:15 pm - The Scandinavian Day Festival returns for its 45th year celebrating traditional music, dance, food and more on Sunday, Sept. 7.
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Graham Greene, a trailblazing Indigenous actor best known for ‘Dances With Wolves’, dies at 73Sep 02, 2025 11:48 am - Graham Greene, a trailblazing Indigenous actor whose long and successful career on the big and small screen included an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Kicking Bird in “Dances With Wolves,” has died. He was 73.
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