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Things to do Aug. 29 to Sept. 4: Buffalo Grove Days, Last Fling, Septemberfest and more

By Luke Zurawski
Aug 28, 2025 11:10 am - Mark your calendar for Buffalo Grove Days, Naperville Jaycees’ Last Fling, Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Schaumburg Septemberfest, Long Grove Irish Days and more happening this week.
May the nearly perfect drama ‘A Little Prayer’ find its audience

By Ty Burr
Aug 28, 2025 10:20 am - Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, and those of us who cherished this small-scale, nearly perfect drama of small-town American lives were worried it might never see the light of day again. Yet here it is at last, and all I can say is: Go.
ABC’s Robin Roberts retraces her post-Hurricane Katrina journey back to her hometown

By DAVID BAUDER
Aug 28, 2025 10:03 am - Revisiting the time she broke down on “Good Morning America” while covering Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her hometown Pass Christian, Mississippi, Robin Roberts said she feared losing her job. That was not the case though. An ABC News special looking back at Katrina after 20 years airs at 7 p.m. Friday.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman make a love story very dark in ‘The Roses’

By MARK KENNEDY
Aug 28, 2025 5:30 am - “The Roses” begins in a marriage therapist’s office, where Theo Rose has something interesting to say about his longtime wife, Ivy: “I would rather live with her than a wolf.”
Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper ‘Caught Stealing’ an affectionate ode to ’90s New York

By JAKE COYLE
Aug 28, 2025 5:30 am - Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, “Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of New York. This terrific caper, starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side man inadvertently drawn into a nightmarish crime world, is a period movie set in 1998.
St. Charles Arts Council celebrates successful Plein Air Event

By Jeanne Dyer, St. Charles Arts Council
Aug 27, 2025 6:13 pm - The Baker Community Center hosted the successful second annual St. Charles Arts Council's Plein Air Event, featuring artwork sales, food, and camaraderie.
Wauconda Street Fest offering incentives for a safe ride home

By Mick Zawislak
Aug 27, 2025 5:07 pm - A designated driver program and $15 Lyft discounts are new features of the annual Wauconda Street Dance.
Celebrate Doggy Dip at Diamond Lake Beach with your furry friend

Daily Herald report
Aug 27, 2025 5:01 pm - Doggy Dip will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30 at Diamond Lake Beach, 1016 N. Diamond Lake Road, Mundelein.
Murder, she solved: Helen Mirren channels Angela Lansbury in ‘Thursday Murder Club’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Aug 27, 2025 3:06 pm - In “The Thursday Murder Club,” an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman’s mystery novel, the four club members, led by Helen Mirren in her no-nonsense plaid blazers, depart from yoga and Sudoku each week at their retirement community to consider cold cases.
Get ‘em while they’re hot (literally): Arlington Heights bakery serves up sweet treats to Taylor and Travis fans

By Barbara Vitello
Aug 27, 2025 2:42 pm - Out of the oven and into the hands of well-wishers. That's the mission of Sweet T's Bakery and Cake Studio employees who have been serving up specialty cookies commemorating the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce since the couple's engagement announcement Tuesday on social media.

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