Elgin Lifestyle
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Cheap stuff to do: Free trolley rides, nature craftsMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Free Climb aboard, Mom! The Fox River Trolley Museum is offering free trolley rides for mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers in honor of Mother's Da...
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'Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy' coming to AuroraMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - After playing a prime engagement on Broadway, "Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy" jumps back into the Chicago area with a stop at the Paramount Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd., A...
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S. Elgin teacher with MS to promote new albumApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Holly McNeill, the singer and South Elgin High School teacher recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, has a big weekend planned as she promotes her new album, "Hope....
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The Methadones: punk with pop sensibilitiesApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - If the softening and corporatization of pop-punk has weakened the genre's street cred, that does not matter to Dan Schafer. "I like a lot of genres of music, but it has ...
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Café Roma in Elgin is simple yet satisfyingApr 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Café Roma in Elgin satiates through simplicity. Frank and Jennifer Redisi opened Café Roma in June 2008, banking on Frank's Cordon Bleu skills and the year he spent in ...
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Arlington Park fundraiser draws attention to rare diseaseApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Nine-year-old Brett Grossman has hardly eaten a thing for a year. Because of a rare illness that makes him allergic to nearly all food, he lives on an all-liquid diet. T...
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Bartlett woman one of nation's few wine aerialistsApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Working your way through college can have its ups and downs. But for Adelynn Drescher of Bartlett, swinging up, down and upside-down through a 40-foot-high wine cellar p...
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West Dundee woman gives new life to old clothesApr 20, 2009 11:00 pm - If you found a hideous, stonewashed pair of Guess jeans from the 1980s, you'd toss them straight in the garbage, right? Jessica Clute wouldn't. The 38-year-old West Dund...
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Designer: Center the 'most important building I've ever done'Apr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Architects of Stanley Tigerman's stature typically introduce their designs to clients with a great deal of fanfare, accompanied by PowerPoint presentations, three-dimens...
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Illinois Holocaust Museum to open this weekendApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Aaron Elster still recalls Oct. 10, 1942, as vividly as if it were yesterday. He was waiting with his family to board a train for Treblinka, a Nazi concentration camp i...