Green Oaks Lifestyle
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Forest & Found, a community thrift store, donates $10,000 to local food bankDec 30, 2020 10:00 pm - Forest & Found, the Lake Forest community thrift store located at 1363 N. Western Ave., is ending 2020 on a positive note. Forced to close the store for a few weeks in...
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Pandemic, pot, BLM protests, corruption among suburbs' top stories in 2020Dec 30, 2020 10:00 pm - It was a traumatic year for the nation, confronted by a virus that killed more than 300,000 people, protests and, at times, riots after video was posted of the slow deat...
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Parking lot Santa visit brings cheer to UPS for DownS familiesDec 24, 2020 5:00 am - Young Lilliani Padilla, 10, of Wadsworth rode in the car with her mother and sisters for more than hour before they arrived in Schaumburg. But the prize was worth the wa...
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The Show Must Go On! Adaptive Theater Goes Virtual . . . but Benefits Remain Very RealDec 23, 2020 10:00 pm - December 24, 2020 . . . The pandemic has impacted many industries, however, to quote the hit musical Hamilton, "the world turned upside down" for theater artists. Depend...
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Dining events: Famous Dave's returns as a ghost kitchenDec 23, 2020 5:00 am - Famous Dave's is back If you miss Famous Dave's barbecue, you're in luck as the barbecue restaurant recently opened a ghost kitchen inside Granite City's Naperville loca...
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St. Demetrios provides 1,000 meals for Waukegan familiesDec 22, 2020 12:00 am - Outreach ministries have been in place for decades at St. Demetrios Orthodox Church in Libertyville, including food donations made to local pantries after the church's a...
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'It was my home here': A lifetime in formal wear ends for Libertyville tailorDec 21, 2020 4:30 am - Even when you've known for months what's coming, walking away from a 30-year business doesn't begin to sink in until the space is empty and the keys are handed over. “On...
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2020 was a big year in birdingDec 18, 2020 5:00 am - You probably heard about "Rocky," the saw-whet owl discovered last month inside the huge Christmas tree on Rockefeller Plaza in New York. The adorable stowaway became an...
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Holiday Lights Contest Editor's Choice Winner: Lake CountyDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Brett Safron, who lives at 11 Copperwood Drive in Buffalo Grove, is the Editor's Choice winner for Lake County in the Daily Herald's annual holiday lights contest, prese...
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Donate to 32nd annual Chicago Bears Coat DriveDec 17, 2020 10:00 pm - The Chicago Bears Coat Drive, brought to you by Jewel-Osco, will be held at Bears Fit, 155 E Townline Road in Vernon Hills, on Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 19-20, Jan. 2-...