Waukegan Lifestyle
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Boycotting baseball? Here's a game plan to get through the SeriesNov 05, 2021 3:33 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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Free for a day? If you are, then these museums are, tooNov 05, 2021 12:49 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 freebiesNov 05, 2021 12:46 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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Can background music move you (to spend?)Nov 04, 2021 9:10 pm - Music can cheer you up. It can soothe your nerves. It can invigorate your body. And it can make you open your wallet. Background music, experts say, stimulates the brai...
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Federal investigators drop Ledger drug inquiryNov 04, 2021 7:56 pm - NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death...
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Giving Garden benefits from yield of 200 tomato plantsNov 04, 2021 7:26 pm - Most people have all they can do to manage a few tomato plants in their backyard. Then there's Nancy Hake. She laughs in the face of a challenge. Or, rather, 200 challen...
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Giving Garden efforts beginning to take rootNov 04, 2021 3:33 pm - Tucked away in a vacant lot surrounded by industrial parks, a bevy of tomatoes and zucchinis are starting to ripen. The food, and the 240-square-foot garden where it's g...
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Farms show off suburbs' agricultural rootsNov 04, 2021 2:45 pm - If there's one thing Mother Nature taught us this year, it's that summer is fleeting. Now's the time to make the most of it, meshing an afternoon outdoors with some qual...
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Tropical parties hot in the suburbsNov 04, 2021 2:21 pm - High gas prices. A sluggish economy. And all those weddings, graduation parties, and family barbecues that you just can't ditch. Face it, right now it's tough to simply ...
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213 miles per gallon? Suburban man says no problemNov 04, 2021 1:40 pm - Drivers today are hyper-stressed, what with paying hyper-fuel prices and commuting amid hyper-traffic. What the world needs now, Wayne Gerdes claims, is a little hypermi...