Entertainment Stories from December 17, 2025 (Change date)
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Winter Break Wonderland brings flurry of fun to DuPage Children’s MuseumDec 17, 2025 10:13 pm - Families can glide and twirl on the indoor sock skating rink at DuPage Children's Museum's Winter Break Wonderland event. Kids can explore math and measurement concepts while mixing pretend drinks at the Cocoa Counter, experiment with buoyancy at the water table, and engage in sensory play at the Snow Box.
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Foreigner, Air Supply highlight Elk Grove’s record $1.1 million summer concert lineupDec 17, 2025 4:15 pm - Elk Grove Village’s 16th summer concert series featuring Jake Owen, Fitz and the Tantrums, Foreigner, Smash Mouth and Air Supply will cost $1.1 million - the town’s priciest ever.
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SpongeBob is back in madcap ‘Search for SquarePants’Dec 17, 2025 1:44 pm - SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble-blowing, Bikini Bottom resident, that means reaching the coveted height of 36 clams tall so that he can finally ride the big roller coaster at Captain Booty Beard’s Fun Park in “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.”
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The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home of ABCDec 17, 2025 1:38 pm - In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.
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How Christmas traditions help spark holiday spiritDec 17, 2025 12:39 pm - It has seemed a little tougher to muster up the holiday spirit this year. Reflecting on Christmas traditions and seasonal events may help to get us in the right frame of mind.
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Palatine grandfather publishes children’s bookDec 17, 2025 11:48 am - Longtime Palatine resident Bill Pohlman has completed his new children’s book, “The Fox in the Yard,” inspired by the stories he used to tell his daughter at bedtime.
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Schaumburg to celebrate village’s 70th anniversary throughout 2026Dec 17, 2025 11:35 am - Though the village of Schaumburg’s 70th birthday will be on March 7, celebrations of this milestone are planned throughout the entirety of 2026.
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Book by Daily Herald’s Jim Slusher wins Chicago Writers Association awardDec 17, 2025 11:03 am - The Chicago Writers Association Wednesday named Jim Slusher’s collection of Daily Herald columns, “To Nudge the World,” as the Indie Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2025.
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‘Buck Rogers’ star Gil Gerard dies at 82Dec 17, 2025 10:50 am - Gil Gerard, who played television’s hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82.
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Howard Stern’s new SiriusXM deal: How he plans to ‘have it all’Dec 17, 2025 8:22 am - Howard Stern will spend another three years on SiriusXM, telling listeners Tuesday that he’s “figured out a way to have it all.”
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