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Chicago Northwest Restaurant Week to run Feb. 27-March 8Feb 25, 2026 1:18 pm - Meet Chicago Northwest’s annual Chicago Northwest Restaurant Week will take place Friday, Feb. 27, through Sunday, March 8.
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Harmony through music: Conductor receives Arlington Heights award for concerts that bring people togetherFeb 25, 2026 11:43 am - For his efforts to build a “sense of pride and community” in Arlington Heights and among local artists, the village’s arts commission recognized Tamaron Conseur with its 2025 Cultural Arts Award.
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Dining out: Pair of restaurant weeks, soup’s on at Gong cha and moreFeb 24, 2026 11:42 am - Meet Chicago Northwest and Rosemont host restaurant weeks, bubble tea purveyor Gong cha has added soup to the menu, Fry the Coop now offers wings and more.
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Harper College Theatre Ensemble’s ‘Dirty Turk’ blends immersive performance and community storytellingFeb 23, 2026 12:13 pm - A play written and directed by Harper College instructor Ilknür Ozgür, “Dirty Turk aka Dirty Immigrant,“ blends immersive performance and storytelling. Performances are March 5-15.
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The Biz Week That Was: Bears stadium indecision, data centers talk, and a new Ikea storeFeb 21, 2026 1:40 pm - Bears stadium legislation advances in Indiana as Illinois hearing abruptly canceled An Indiana House committee advanced legislation Thursday that would support a new...
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Feel-good music: Arlington Heights Community Concert Band to present ‘Good Vibes Only’Feb 18, 2026 9:29 am - The Arlington Heights Community Concert Band aims to lift listeners’ spirits with its upcoming concert, “GOOD VIBES ONLY.”
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Harper College’s ‘Behind the Groove’ exhibit explores music and memoryFeb 17, 2026 6:28 pm - Krista Franklin’s art invites viewers to lean in close and see the seams, the layers and the loving wear that comes with holding things dear. In "Behind the Groove," Franklin’s new exhibition at Harper College, many of those items have to do with music: funk, pop and R&B.
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Schaumburg presents Black History Month play, ‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls’Feb 17, 2026 11:17 am - Schaumburg’s usually annual Black History Month play returns next week after a year’s hiatus with a new nonprofit production company.
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First Lava Island indoor playground/adventure park in Illinois set to open in KildeerFeb 17, 2026 10:44 am - The first Lava Island Play Oasis indoor playground/adventure park in Illinois is opening Thursday in the former Best Buy store in Kildeer.
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Spotlight: Metropolis revives backstage farce ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’Feb 17, 2026 9:59 am - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre revives the backstage farce “The Play That Goes Wrong,” Writers Theatre produces “Two Sisters and a Piano,” and Goodman Theatre stages the English adaptation of Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”