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How Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles is weathering the pandemicOct 02, 2020 6:00 am - Steel Beam Theatre knows a thing or two about overcoming challenges. The downtown St. Charles theater had to celebrate its 20th anniversary last week without any hoopla ...
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'We had to get in': How Gurnee police saved wounded woman and toddler from gunmanOct 02, 2020 5:30 am - Gurnee police Officer Dan Ruth wasn't sure what awaited him on the other side of the patio screen door the night of July 3. He just knew he and his fellow officers neede...
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The political 'Honeymooners'Oct 02, 2020 1:00 am - My late mother, veteran of a long and happy marriage, hated "The Honeymooners," a long-gone television series in which the married couple of the title blustered and batt...
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Feder: 'Those Were the Days' celebrates radio's greatest hitsOct 02, 2020 1:00 am - Kicking off its celebration of radio's 100th anniversary, "Those Were the Days" will air a monthlong series of milestone and landmark broadcasts from the Golden Age of R...
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Stevenson alum Van Zanten: Notre Dame women's soccer team will do whatever it takes to keep playingOct 02, 2020 1:00 am - Two years ago, Kiki Van Zanten was flush with gratitude. The former Stevenson High School student had chosen to play club soccer instead of high school soccer as a fresh...
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When the power of words obscures the search for factsOct 01, 2020 11:00 pm - Is state Rep. Amy Grant a homophobic racist unfit for office? Or is she someone who was set up in a deceitful phone call and then compounded her problems with careless l...
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Lovably quirky father-daughter dynamic drives comedy 'On the Rocks'Oct 01, 2020 6:00 am - “On the Rocks” - ★ ★ ★ “Don't you act normal around any woman?” an exasperated Laura asks her scoundrel senior citizen father, Felix. No, he doesn't. He can't. Fel...
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'Curse of Audrey Earnshaw' drenches coming-of-rage horror tale in dreadOct 01, 2020 6:00 am - “The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw” - ★ ★ ★ Atmospheric horror tales such as Thomas Robert Lee's “The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw” give us the willies by pushing us into a...
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Constable: Fraternities still viable during pandemic, changing timesOct 01, 2020 5:00 am - I still remember the day I came out to the woman who would become my wife. "You?" she stammered in disbelief. "You were in a fraternity?" As a proud "GDI" (Independent) ...
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Feder: The Record debuts as news site for North Shore communitiesOct 01, 2020 1:00 am - Today marks the launch of The Record North Shore, the nonprofit local news site founded by three former editors of 22nd Century Media, Robert Feder writes. Joe Coughlin...