Campton Hills Lifestyle
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Home & garden calendar, Aug. 24-30Aug 19, 2025 5:58 pm - Upcoming garden club meetings, plant sales, and garden shows in the Chicago area.
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The story behind Geneva’s new ‘upscale dive bar’ Bad AliceAug 19, 2025 2:31 pm - “We wanted something affordable and friendly,” manager Chris Claboltz said of the inspiration for Geneva’s new “upscale dive bar,” Bad Alice.
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Home & garden calendar, Aug. 17-23Aug 17, 2025 6:01 pm - Upcoming garden club meetings, plant sales, and garden shows in the Chicago suburbs.
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A balm for the bereaved: Geneva woman seeks to install wind phone where grieving people can ‘talk’ to lost loved onesAug 16, 2025 12:15 pm - A Geneva mother seeks to establish a wind phone, a disconnected phone that allows grieving people to “talk” with their departed loved ones, in her community in honor of her 18-year-old son James who died unexpectedly in 2021.
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Kane County hosts low-cost rabies vaccine and microchip clinic Aug. 23Aug 15, 2025 8:32 pm - Kane County Animal Control is offering low-cost, drive-through rabies vaccine and microchip clinics.
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From drive-in to fly-in: A canopy’s quirky taleAug 13, 2025 4:00 am - The canopy that once sheltered Rex's Driv-In restaurant in St. Charles has played an important role in the history of the Fox Valley Aero Club.
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St. Charles church hosts Evensong Prayer Service and potluckAug 12, 2025 1:37 pm - St. Charles Episcopal Church will hold an Evening Prayer service with contemporary music on Aug. 20, followed by a complimentary community meal.
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‘Flying jewels’: Naperville man has seen 237 species of hummingbirdsAug 11, 2025 1:15 pm - Denis Kania of Naperville is fairly obsessed with hummingbirds. He’s been to 30 countries and has seen 237 of the 367 hummingbird species.
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‘They get such a bad rap’: Meet Lottie, Anderson Humane Wildlife’s ambassador snakeAug 08, 2025 12:46 pm - Lottie, an integrated milk snake at the Anderson Human Wildlife Center in Elburn, will serve as an ambassador to help individuals overcome their fear of snakes while educating them about the crucial role snakes play in the environment.
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‘Salesman of hope’: How former car salesman became director of Batavia workshop for disabledAug 08, 2025 5:52 am - The Valley Sheltered Workshop in Batavia will soon mark its 60th anniversary giving people with cognitive disabilities a job and a purpose, but it needs more space to teach life skills.