Oak Brook
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Lincoln bicentennial eventsAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - A sampling of events being planned by the Lincoln Bicentennial Coalition of DuPage County, as well as by other groups, for this year and next to celebrate Abraham Lincol...
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Final weekend of summer festivalsAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Folk Music & Storytelling Fest, Geneva: 32nd annual festival, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Island Park, downtown Geneva. Suggested admission: $15 per day for 12 and up; $10 for...
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DuPage County in 60 secondsAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - West Chicago emergency training West Chicago Citizen Corps will offer a Community Emergency Response Training, or CERT, course to residents living within the West Chicag...
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Celebrating Lincoln: Honoring our 16th president on his 200th birthdayAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Travel the Lincoln Highway. Tap your feet to Civil War-era music. Take a break from the Obama-McCain presidential campaign, and hear Abraham Lincoln debate Sen. Stephen ...
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Competitors, big and small, come out to Naperville's Last FlingAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Jack Murray had a trick up his sleeve as he took a seat alongside nearly a dozen other contestants in the spaghetti eating contest. At stake was a gift certificate to D...
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Going old school in Oak Brook Civil War re-enactmentAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - The disparity between the two worlds was striking. As seven-year-old Emily Bittman and her father sat along the edge of the Salt Creek in Oak Brook Sunday morning eatin...
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Streamwood man accused of sex assaultAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - A 31-year-old Streamwood man is in Cook County Jail after he was accused of sexually assaulting a teenager over a seven-year period. Streamwood police arrested Juan Var...
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Library honors DuPage County's first black officerAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - After serving his country, William Simmons came home and again risked his life, this time fighting a war on local streets against drugs and gangs. As part of its sesquic...
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When Old Glory needs a bathAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Joe Hunter doesn't believe in part-time patriotism. That is, if you fly an American flag - and you should, he says - do it every day. And, when Old Glory gets a little d...
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Fundraiser failed to save Lombard restaurantAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Even a last-ditch fundraiser failed to keep afloat Flaherty's Beef and Brew in Lombard. Larry and Patti Wojdyla held a benefit earlier this summer at their 29-year-old I...