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Lisle Community Band begins summer concerts July 8Jun 24, 2021 11:00 pm - The Lisle Community Band begins its 34th summer concert season with a concert of American and patriotic music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8. The free concerts are held ...
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Best Bets: Celebrate summer at Long Grove Strawberry FestivalJun 22, 2021 6:00 am - Dance activism Former Hubbard Street Dance Chicago dancer and choreographer Jie-Hung Connie Shiau returns to collaborate with composer Jerome Begin and filmmaker Kevin M...
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Eighth Blackbird Presents a Live Stream Event Featuring a New Work by Chaos Hands June 26Jun 20, 2021 11:00 pm - Eighth Blackbird's Chicago Artists Workshop Series presents a live streamed event featuring Chaos Hands at 2 p.m. CT Saturday, June 26. In this event, Chaos Hands shares...
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Join in Woodridge Public Library's 'Cupcake Wars' by June 23Jun 17, 2021 11:00 pm - A little "cupcake joy" is being spread around by competitors in the first-ever "Cupcake Wars" contest at the Woodridge Public Library. Rapunzel's braid, a hamburger and...
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Our bird's-eye view of summer, fall music fests in Chicago and the suburbsJun 17, 2021 11:00 am - Last year, the music festival season in Chicago and the suburbs came to a screeching halt as the pandemic forced most fests to pivot to livestreaming events or shut down...
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Best Bets: The Obama Portraits head to the Art Institute of ChicagoJun 15, 2021 6:00 am - Presidential portraits Kehinde Wiley's painting of President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama - known as The Obama Portraits -...
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Naperville Jaycees announce music lineup for 2021 Last FlingJun 15, 2021 1:00 am - The Naperville Jaycees have largely gone local for the music lineup of the 2021 Last Fling. The annual outdoor Labor Day weekend festival returns Sept. 3-6 after last ye...
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented OvertureJun 14, 2021 11:00 pm - "If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony," said Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I am not sure about the entire world, but those who chose to attend the Chicago ...
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Wheaton Municipal Band celebrates the magic of movie music June 17Jun 14, 2021 11:00 pm - On Thursday, June 17, Wheaton Municipal Band will perform "A Night at the Movies" at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Park in downtown Wheaton. The summer concert season began Jun...
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Telecommunications industry leader writes novels about abuses of science and technologyJun 13, 2021 11:00 pm - Thomas J J Starr, a telecommunications engineer living in the Northwest suburbs, has published his third novel, "Retrograde." Starr, the chairman of a United Nations ch...