Des Plaines Lifestyle
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Des Plaines' Grazie!: Big American-Italian menu, low pricesOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - My passion for Italian cuisine led me to a sprawling banquet and restaurant operation in Des Plaines. Heaping portions at reasonable prices provided big bang for the buc...
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Comedians use sign language to entertain deaf audiencesOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Keith Wann barely uttered a word during his 90-minute stand-up comedy routine in Streamwood this month, and afterward, there was only a smattering of applause. But the a...
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The hottest new piece of exercise equipment? A strollerOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Peek-a-Boo Lunges, Choo-Choo Sprints and Ring-Around-the-Rosie Squats aren't part of most women's exercise routines. But they're starting to be. More and more suburban m...
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Boycotting baseball? Here's a game plan to get through the SeriesOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's playoff run was brief. Very brief. The Cubs were out in three games, the White Sox in four. Yet that tiny taste of postseason play - not to mention the fevered...
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Cirque du Soleil to rock Sears Centre big topOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Even without P.T. Barnum, the circus - albeit a brightly colored, semi-psychedelic one - is coming to Hoffman Estates. Tickets for Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco tour go...
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Luxury theaters offer recliners, fine dining -- for a priceOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - You've been to the cheap theaters, sharing your film-going experience with sticky floors and stale popcorn. You've been to the multiplexes, with gaggles of middle schoo...
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Attracting birds to your gardenOct 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Birds bring color and personality to every season in our back yards, and it turns out attracting them is not difficult. Birdseed - even the good stuff - is cheaper than ...
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Tina Turner coming to Allstate, UCSep 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Soul royalty comes to town for three shows spanning Turner's entire career. She's supporting the new "Tina! Her Greatest Hits," another one of those compilations featuri...
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She cooks for two- and four-legged friendsSep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Sheila Horst approached the culinary arts as a blank slate, coming at it without the homey, family narrative of so many cooks. Her mother prepared a few basic dishes "by...
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Free for a day? If you are, then these museums are, tooSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - There's a day set aside for appreciating squirrels (Jan. 21), National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year and Salami Day, celebrated each Sept....