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College of DuPage to host 16th annual Animation Night showcasing student projects

By Jesus Cortez, COD Media Relations
Apr 24, 2026 4:04 pm - College of DuPage's 16th annual Animation Night will showcase student capstone projects on May 21 in the Belushi Performance Hall, featuring 24 students' work across various genres including fantasy, horror and feel-good animations.
Harper College Festival Chorus hosts spring concert celebrating three milestones

Submitted by Festival Chorus
Apr 24, 2026 10:23 am - On April 26, the Harper College Performing Arts Center Festival Chorus celebrates three birthdays with this year’s Spring Concert: the nation’s country’s 250th, English composer John Rutter’s 80th, and the Festival Chorus’s 60th.
Coasting to 50: Six Flags Great America celebrates golden anniversary with season of surprises

By Mick Zawislak
Apr 24, 2026 6:50 am - Anticipation always accompanies opening weekend at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. But the start of a new season Saturday comes with extra zip.
Elgin’s Bethlehem Lutheran next stop on Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour

By Jeff Neufeld, Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour
Apr 23, 2026 1:16 pm - The Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour continues Sunday, April 26, at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, featuring their 1940 M.P. Moller pipe organ that was restored in 1982.
Harper Radio earns national honors while amplifying student voices

Submitted by Harper College
Apr 22, 2026 3:30 pm - As WHCM celebrates 25 years on the FM airwaves, Harper College’s student radio station continues to receive major awards from national organizations.
St. Charles dining scene heating up with new restaurant fire + wine

By Vicki Martinka Petersen
Apr 22, 2026 1:47 pm - For nearly 15 years, BG Hospitality Group has brought people together around plates of wood-fired pizza and Italian favorites at Gia Mia, Livia Italian Eatery and Ella’s Italian Pub. Their latest restaurant, fire + wine in St. Charles, brings the company full circle, as their first restaurant was fire + wine’s first location in downtown Glen Ellyn.
A new spin on ‘rails to trails’: Community effort brings century-old CA&E rail car to Illinois Prairie Path

By Ralph Banasiak, Along for the Ride
Apr 22, 2026 10:39 am - Riders and hikers on the Illinois Prairie Path will soon get a glimpse of railroad history when a historic train car will be transported to a new 60-foot track at Villa Park’s Ardmore Station, itself vintage 1908.
After 53 years, Pal Joey’s pizza shop is closing

By Dave Oberhelman
Apr 21, 2026 6:43 pm - A go-to locale for pan pizza in the Western suburbs since 1973, Pal Joey’s in Batavia is closing, its owner said on social media.
Join a woodland walk at Garfield Farm Museum

By Jerome Johnson, Garfield Farm Museum
Apr 21, 2026 4:23 pm - Garfield Farm Museum director Jerome Johnson will lead a nature walk through the museum's Harley Pond and Woods on Saturday, May 2.
Spotlight: Paramount Theatre revives Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘South Pacific’

By Barbara Vitello
Apr 21, 2026 2:22 pm - Paramount Theatre stages “South Pacific,” Lifeline Theatre premieres the rock musical “Loki,” Metropolis Performing Arts Centre stages “The Wedding Singer,” and Raven Theatre presents its first musical, the a cappella tuner “Octet.”

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