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Dining out: National Sandwich Day, Thanksgiving pizza, spooky cocktails and moreOct 28, 2025 4:51 pm - National Sandwich Day is Monday, plus Frato’s Thanksgiving turkey pizza returns and Shaw’s in Schaumburg is celebrating 25 years with 25 days of specials in November.
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Best Bets: Paul Reiser at The MAC and Chicago Sinfonietta opens seasonOct 15, 2025 10:28 am - Actor/comedian Paul Reiser headlines The MAC, the Chicago Sinfonietta showcases Indian music at Naperville and Chicago concerts, and Chicago’s MCA hosts a career perspective of artist/activist/musician Yoko Ono.
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Illinois establishes Governor’s Blue Ribbon Schools programOct 10, 2025 1:18 pm - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the state education board joined school leaders, teachers, and students Friday to launch the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Schools program and celebrate the 2025 recipients of the discontinued National Blue Ribbon School Award.
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Oak Park native films ‘The Elkhorn Special’ in Downers GroveSep 22, 2025 9:57 pm - “The Elkhorn Special,” an upcoming independent feature written and directed by Oak Park native and Army vet Daniel John Harris, begins filming the second week of October at locations across Berwyn, Riverside, and Downers Grove, including the Tivoli.
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Along for the Ride: Cook Co. invests more than $1.5M in suburban biking infrastructureSep 10, 2025 7:32 pm - Cook County has awarded grants totaling over $1.5 million for biking infrastructure projects in several suburbs and the Forest Preserves of Cook County.
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Spotlight: Janus Theatre opens ‘outsiders’ season with ‘The Ibsen Project: Hedda’Jun 23, 2025 2:47 pm - Janus Theatre begins its 27th season with a scripts-in-hand production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler.”
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Motorcyclists to throttle up for POW/MIA causeMay 07, 2025 10:49 am - More than 80 years after U.S. Army Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a chaotic, nighttime gun battle in Italy, the World War II soldier was set for a solemn burial at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood this month.
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Lux Cantorum Chicago launches community outreach with spring gospel concert seriesApr 15, 2025 9:44 pm - Lux Cantorum Chicago presents it spring “Gospel Extravaganza” concert series May 2, 4, and 10 in Chicago, Glen Ellyn, and Oak Park.
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‘A very big ‘wow’ moment’: Billy Bricks celebrates 20 years of wood-fired, brick-oven pizza in the suburbsMar 19, 2025 2:08 pm - Most people come home from a vacation with souvenirs. The founder and namesake of Billy Bricks, Bill Wilson, came home from a trip 20 years ago with a taste for wood-fired pizza. When he couldn’t find any brick-oven pizzerias in the Chicago area, he decided to open his own.
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