Entertainment
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Sober sorcery: Look to your pantry to make a sweet, salty and sour virgin margarita
Jun 17, 2025 1:53 pm - When done right, a virgin margarita can blow your mind with its calibrated sorcery: sweet, salty, sour and bitter all working together. Would you believe that the two main ingredients are blue agave syrup and Earl Grey tea?
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Tom Cruise is finally getting an Oscar — as will Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen and Wynn Thomas
Jun 17, 2025 1:41 pm - Twenty-five years after Tom Cruise received his first Oscar nomination, he’s finally getting a trophy. It’s not for his death-defying stunts, either. At least, not exclusively.
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Best Bets: Swingin’ at Cantigny, ‘Wicked’ sing-along at Paramount, The Wiggles at Rosemont TheatreJun 17, 2025 12:36 pm - Cantigny debuts musical swings, Wheaton welcomes craft beer lovers, The Wiggles return to Rosemont and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art hosts the Hokusai Japan Fest.
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New route for Mundelein Community Days paradeJun 17, 2025 11:59 am - The upcoming Mundelein Community Days parade will have a different route than previous iterations, officials have announced.
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Wheel Haus restaurant coming to Wheeling Town CenterJun 17, 2025 11:04 am - The entrepreneurs behind the Moretti’s chain want to open another restaurant in the Wheeling Town Center complex.
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Doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry and called him a ‘moron’ will plead guilty
Jun 17, 2025 7:36 am - A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the “Friends” star’s overdose death will plead guilty, according to an agreement filed in court Monday.
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Music Review: Bruce Springsteen takes seven ‘Lost Albums’ off the shelf for a new box set
Jun 17, 2025 6:46 am - Bruce Springsteen’s new project, “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” is entirely about that age-old question: What if? The box set, out June 27, comprises seven albums encompassing the period between 1983 and 2018, all but one he prepared to release in its time but ultimately shelved.
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Book Review: A fingerprint expert obsessed with learning the fate of her missing sister
Jun 17, 2025 6:21 am - Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister slipped out of their family home in Maine to party with friends and never came home. In author Gillian French’s “Shaw Connolly Lives To Tell,” Shaw isn’t the only one who is obsessed with finding her sister. Someone is obsessed with her.
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Glen Ellyn’s Summer Break at the Lake returns with music, food and family funJun 16, 2025 10:58 pm - The Glen Ellyn Park District invites all ages to Summer Break at the Lake on June 26-27. Enjoy music, food, and fun at beautiful Lake Ellyn Park.
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Illinois Holocaust Museum to show ‘First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler’Jun 16, 2025 10:11 pm - The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will host a film screening and discussion on "First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler" on June 26.