Entertainment
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Dining: Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week debuts, plus Buddy's Bites N Brews opens in SchaumburgSep 23, 2020 6:00 am - Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week Now here's a deal: The inaugural Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week will be offering three-course lunch, brunch and dinner speci...
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All Aboard Thomas the Tank Engine at Kohl Children's MuseumSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Seventy-five years ago, Reverend Wilbert Awdry's 4-year-old son Christopher came down with a bout of the measles. To amuse him, the reverend began making up stories base...
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Feder: Orion Samuelson to retire after 60 years at WGN RadioSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - On the eve of his 60th anniversary as the booming voice of agriculture and business at WGN 720-AM, Orion Samuelson says it's time to retire from the Nexstar Media Group ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Nothing but first class for Gale SayersSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - THE PASSING OF GALE SAYERS recalled a long ago summer Sunday morning at O'Hare. The teenaged United Airlines seasonal hireling - later appropriately deemed "The worst ga...
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Kal Penn hopes for dialogue with new show for young voters
Sep 22, 2020 6:00 am - Politics has been more than a little shouty of late. Actor and activist Kal Penn would quietly like to change that. "Today we have the blessing - or a curse - of being a...
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Feder: Dan McNeil apologizes for 'harsh' tweet - and goes fishingSep 22, 2020 1:00 am - One week after his career crashed and burned over what his bosses called a "degrading and humiliating" tweet, Dan McNeil apologized to the ESPN reporter whose attire he ...
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Ken Jennings on his new 'Jeopardy!' producer gig, Alex Trebek and filming the show in a pandemic
Sep 21, 2020 6:00 am - Back in January, longtime “Jeopardy!” executive producer Harry Friedman did something he never had in two decades of running the show: He called a contestant on the phon...
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Feder: WGN Radio boss Mary Sandberg Boyle gets VP stripesSep 21, 2020 1:00 am - Mary Sandberg Boyle, the first female general manager in the 96-year history of WGN 720-AM, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the Nexstar Media ...
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Drive-Thru Trunk-and-Treat Oct. 24 offers sensory friendly and allergy free treatsSep 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Chapelstreet Church Masterpiece Ministry, Chapelstreet Church and MyRecess Therapy will host a "Drive-Thru Trunk-and-Treat - Sensory Friendly and Allergy Free" from 3 to...
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Buffalo Creek Brewing hosts scaled-back Oktoberfest weekend Oct. 2-4Sep 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Lake County's destination brewery, Buffalo Creek Brewing, is scaling back its annual Oktoberfest event amid Coronavirus concerns this year in favor of a subtler Oktoberf...