Mount Prospect Lifestyle
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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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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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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....
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Suburban museum freebiesSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - There are numerous community historical museums offering exhibits that relate to that particular town's origins and growth. Many hold special events and programs for adu...
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Schaumburg native helps give life to Holocaust survival storySep 21, 2008 11:00 pm - After years of hustling for work in Los Angeles, Schaumburg native Brian Brock was thinking about ending his freelance writing career. Then he met Pierre Berg. The two ...
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Suburban moms will miss RandhurstSep 17, 2008 11:00 pm - While cold drizzle fell outside, a friend and I brainstormed places we could take our 3-year-olds for a Saturday afternoon playdate. I had just moved to the suburbs and ...
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Check out Web celeb Pineda this weekendSep 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Journey You've heard about Arnel Pineda, the 41 year-old Filipino singer discovered by Journey guitarist Neal Schon on YouTube. Now hear his remarkable vocal similarity ...