Elgin Lifestyle
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Operation Support Our Troops-America plans 'Shop and Drive' event May 5 to help deployed military membersApr 26, 2020 11:00 pm - Operation Support Our Troops -America will host a collection event called "Shop & Drive" to replenish needed items for the nonprofit's Comfort and Care Package Program. ...
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Beloved Barrington Sandwich Shop Owner Remembered With 'The Best Of Boloney's Sandwich Shop' Recipe e-BookApr 26, 2020 11:00 pm - BARRINGTON, IL (APRIL 27, 2020) - For 35 years, Roberta Rapata served heaping plates containing flavorful, creatively-assembled sandwiches to visitors of the downtown Ba...
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Elgin Butera manager, wife on ventilators due to COVID-19Apr 25, 2020 1:00 am - The manager of a Butera Market in Elgin and his wife have been placed on ventilators while fighting COVID-19, and their relatives say they are grateful for the outpourin...
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Good Shepherd Hospital Partners With Food Delivery Services to Provide Hot MealsApr 24, 2020 11:00 pm - The Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital has partnered with local food pantries to provide hot meals to those in need. The Maintain and Sustain program allows community memb...
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Geneva restaurateurs open The Burger Shop diner in the middle of the pandemicApr 24, 2020 6:00 am - It would make sense for a restaurant owner to say the past several weeks have been difficult because of the coronavirus shutdown. But it would be quite surprising to hea...
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Balmoral, other Campton Hills restaurants pay it forward during pandemicApr 24, 2020 5:25 am - Colin Smith, owner of the Balmoral Restaurant in Campton Hills, can remember being hungry as a child in Scotland - and getting help from strangers. So when schools and o...
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Lake Forest native serenades Chicago neighbors in support of health care workersApr 24, 2020 1:00 am - When David Greene learned that his brother, an ER doctor in the Northwest suburbs, was struggling with stress at work during the COVID-19 pandemic, he felt the need to d...
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'Elgin Strong' T-shirt sale launched by Symonds-Madison Funeral HomeApr 23, 2020 11:00 pm - Joy Symonds of Symonds-Madison Funeral Home has launched a two-week campaign to sell "Elgin Strong" T-shirts for adults and children. A portion of the sales will benefi...
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New season sees yellow-rumped warbler making a stop on migration northApr 23, 2020 6:00 am - We all need survival strategies in these stressful, scary times. My preferred coping method is binge-watching. Not on the couch staring at a screen, but outside, watchin...
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Coleman Foundation to match donations to Association for Individual DevelopmentApr 21, 2020 11:00 pm - Thanks to the generous support of the community, the Association for Individual Development has reached its fundraising goal of $30,000. These funds provide essential s...