Oak Park
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Chicago a cappella launches 2024-25 season with ‘Lamentations’ in NapervilleSep 10, 2024 12:16 am - Chicago a cappella, Chicago’s premier unaccompanied vocal ensemble, begins its 2024-25 season this September with “Lamentations,” a program exploring narratives of displacement, yearning for home, and rebuilding.
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Stride Autism Center now open in Oak ParkAug 20, 2024 12:00 pm - A new facility for Stride Autism Centers is now open at 6400 W. North Ave. in Oak Park. Northbrook-based Mosaic Construction LLC, a full-service commercial and multifami...
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Highland Park appoints Kristi McCaulou as new finance directorAug 19, 2024 10:23 am - Kristi McCaulou, Highland Park’s current deputy finance director, will serve as the city’s newest finance director following the retirement of longtime director Julie Logan in September.
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Stories of Local Impact: Shirley & Willis Johnson, cinema moguls and community advocatesJul 11, 2024 10:10 am - Leaders and Legacies, a partnership with the Daily Herald and DuPage Foundation, continues with Shirley and Willis Johnson who rewrote the script on managing independent movie theaters.
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Shakespeare in the summer: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set for Chicago, Oak ParkJun 25, 2024 10:41 am - Both the Oak Park Theatre Festival and Chicago’s Midsommer Flight stage Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” under the stars this summer.
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Award recipients announced for statewide gambling issues art competitionJun 07, 2024 5:55 pm - The Illinois Department of Human Services announces winners of statewide art competition with the goal of bringing attention to problem gambling
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Rolling Thunder motorcycle parade on May 26 combines POW/MIA remembrance and push to recover and ID the remains of those still missingMay 20, 2024 2:15 pm - It’s one thing to foster remembrance. It’s another to provoke action. Participants in the upcoming Mid-America Rolling Thunder Demonstration Parade will be out to accompl...
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Food scrap collection services growing, but not in all suburbsMay 08, 2024 7:18 pm - Food makes up the single largest waste stream in Illinois — 20% of the 19 million tons of waste we send to the landfill each year — but just 50 communities had access to ...
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Things to do May 10-16: Northbrook-On-Ice, Portugal. The Man, Mother’s Day events and moreMay 08, 2024 6:13 am - Mark your calendars for Lombard Lilac Time and Northbrook-On-Ice, performances by Portugal. The Man, Henry Cho and Nazereth, and several Mother’s Day events and more happening this week.
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New ecosystem restoration group for young people to host May workdaysApr 15, 2024 8:25 pm - It’s the “Year of the Peregrine,” according to the Chicago Ornithological Society, which is marking the 25th anniversary of the peregrine falcon being voted in as the off...