Entertainment
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Cartoon favorites come to life with ‘Animaniacs: In Concert’ at Schaumburg Prairie Center Feb. 2Jan 24, 2024 9:16 am - Mayhem, music and hilarity from the ‘90s come back to life when “Animaniacs: In Concert” comes to the Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts Friday, Feb. 2, beginning at 7...
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Hoffman Estates speaker series takes on songs of the Civil Rights MovementJan 24, 2024 9:09 am - Singer-songwriter Chris Vallillo and members of the Hoffman Estates High School Choir will present "Oh Freedom, Songs of the Civil Rights Movement" on Thursday, Feb. 1, a...
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Charles Osgood, CBS host on TV and radio and network’s poet-in-residence, dies at 91Jan 24, 2024 6:43 am - Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood F...
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DuPage Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Reflections of the Rus’ concert with flutist Adam SadberryJan 23, 2024 11:05 pm - The DuPage Symphony Orchestra promises to deliver an unforgettable performance with “Reflections of the Rus” on Sunday, Feb. 11. This performance will feature the except...
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Fox Valley Harmonizers offering singing valentine videosJan 23, 2024 6:48 pm - Singing valentines, sung by a barbershop quartet, can be delivered to surprised sweethearts on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The Fox Valley Harmonizers will be delivering personali...
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Singing valentines are back for sweethearts in the western suburbs and beyondJan 23, 2024 5:07 pm - The popular singing valentines barbershop quartets are back for Valentine's Day to surprise and serenade sweethearts on Feb. 14. For over a decade, the foursomes of exper...
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Norris Cultural Arts Center to present three ‘Saturday Night Lights’ concerts this seasonJan 23, 2024 4:44 pm - On March 2, comedy songwriter, pianist and WFMT radio host Robbie Ellis kicks off the spring season of “Saturday Night Lights” concerts at the Baker Community Center. Th...
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Music review: Green Day are once again political pop-punk ‘Saviors’ on new albumJan 23, 2024 4:04 pm - Twenty years ago, the Grammy Award-winning pop-punk trio Green Day released “American Idiot” — their ambitious rock opera, a treatise on a world power in decline written ...
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Chipotle with drive-through lane opens Friday in Rolling MeadowsJan 23, 2024 3:11 pm - Burrito lovers in Rolling Meadows can roll in to a new Chipotle Mexican Grill location Friday. The new restaurant at 1458 Golf Road is the concept’s first in Rolling Mea...
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Spotlight: Chicago Shakespeare Theater makes some ‘Illinoise’Jan 23, 2024 2:17 pm - Portrait of our state Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents “Illinoise,” a new musical based on a concept album by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Ste...