Lifestyle
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Glenbrook South student film wins national awardDec 06, 2022 10:00 pm - "Free Time," the short film made by Glenbrook South High School film and broadcasting students last winter, won a National Student Production Award in the Short Form Fic...
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Will Smith-led 'Emancipation' is an action thriller
Dec 06, 2022 9:00 am - “Emancipation” - ★ ★ ½ It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua's “Emancipation,” starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least ...
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NBC's 'Law & Order: SVU' and 'Chicago Med' bid farewell to starsDec 06, 2022 5:00 am - Two well-established dramas are saying goodbye to one star each. It's nothing new for a long-running series to lose a prominent cast member - and, often, more than one o...
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Turning Pointe car raffle funds education, respite for people with autism and their familiesDec 06, 2022 5:00 am - Enter Turning Pointe Autism Foundation's raffle and you could win a sweet ride from Toyota of Naperville. Even better? You will be helping people with autism and their f...
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The Constitution: Executive Branch responsibilities, powersDec 06, 2022 5:00 am - This is the seventh in a series of essays about the Constitution and the second of two about the Executive Branch. It covers the responsibilities and powers of the Execu...
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Book review: Hurricane-force novel with a hint of magical realism
Dec 06, 2022 5:00 am - "The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton (Grand Central) Wanda is named after the hurricane she was born in. It's also the hurricane that changes the tra...
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Things to do Dec. 9-15: All sorts of holiday events to add to your calendarDec 06, 2022 5:00 am - Starts before Friday "A Magical Cirque Christmas": 2 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7; 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 8-9; and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sund...
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'Just glad you're here': Son, firefighters, 911 dispatcher honored for saving Wheeling woman's lifeDec 06, 2022 12:00 am - Christian Flores called 911 because his mother, Amy, was unconscious and unresponsive. The 48-year-old Wheeling woman wasn't breathing, either, and she didn't have a pul...
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Co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis dies at 92
Dec 06, 2022 12:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis n...
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Batavia BSA Troop 12 hosts 65th annual tree saleDec 05, 2022 10:00 pm - Batavia BSA Troop 12 is celebrating 65 years of selling Christmas trees and wreaths to support its Scouting program in developing the future leaders of the community. A...