Literature
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West Chicago poets featured in online gallery of original HaikuDec 17, 2020 10:00 pm - While COVID-19 took center stage last year and disrupted everyday life and its daily routines, many West Chicago residents discovered their own creativity through a proj...
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Netflix's Shea McGee on creating the house of your dreams
Dec 17, 2020 10:00 pm - Shea McGee is co-founder of Studio McGee and star of Netflix's “Dream Home Makeover.” She and husband Syd transformed Shea's small room of fabric samples and design smar...
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Book review: The theft of a fresco leads to a tension-filled yarn in 'Fool Me Twice'
Dec 15, 2020 5:00 am - "Fool Me Twice" by Jeff Lindsay (Dutton) Riley Wolfe has surely met his match in "Fool Me Twice," the second novel in Jeff Lindsay's series about the sel...
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Review: The theft of a fresco leads to a tension-filled yarn
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Brothers write a love letter to a food we all love - pizzaDec 12, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Let Thanksgiving have the turkey. Let Christmas have fruitcake. Every other day, it's got to be pizza. So argue Thom and James Elliot, brothers and pizza make...
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Join Young, Black, & Lit book drive for O.C. Allen Elementary SchoolDec 11, 2020 10:00 pm - O.C. Allen Elementary School in Aurora has a 92% minority population, yet its students often can't see themselves in the books they read. In 2012, the Cooperative Child...
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Local authors partner with new Illinois Rock and Roll Museum with their new bookDec 07, 2020 10:00 pm - Since the early 1970s, veteran concert photographer Jim Summaria of Algonquin, Ill., has captured some of the most famous classic rock-era acts at music venues in and ar...
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Review: 'Blind Vigil' a tense, fast-paced and hardboiled
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Emma Glass's 'Rest and Be Thankful' powerfully describes what it means to be a health care worker
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Why read what everyone else is reading? A guide to this season's hidden gems.