Entertainment
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Hoffman Estates' Sears Centre could become NOW ArenaJun 21, 2020 1:00 am - After 14 years under its original name, the 11,000-seat Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates could have a new identity Sept. 1. On Monday night, the Hoffman Estates vil...
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Showtime's Chicago-shot 'The Chi' brings redemption, change in Season 3Jun 20, 2020 7:30 am - Ronnie Davis was always the kind of guy who was his own worst enemy. Though well-intentioned, the character played by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine in the Showtime drama “The C...
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Netflix's 'The Politician' is back for another cynical run, but the snark attacks get tiresome
Jun 20, 2020 7:27 am - Last year's polling data on the first season of Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan's Netflix series "The Politician" came back somewhat mixed, as it should have. ...
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Constable: Dad, family bring joy with daily duo photosJun 20, 2020 1:00 am - Fathers are famous for telling corny “dad jokes.” Ben Burke of Cary takes that humor to a new level, building a growing fan base for a running daily photo gag that start...
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Widescreen: Sony steals the spotlight this weekend with 'Last of Us Part II'Jun 19, 2020 6:00 am - In the early 1990s, the home video game console wars had two main combatants: Nintendo, which built an empire with the help of an Italian plumber stomping on turtle shel...
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Spotlight: Sideshow Theatre streams 2018 hit 'Tilikum'Jun 19, 2020 6:00 am - 'Tilikum' returns Sideshow Theatre Company streams its 2018 Joseph Jefferson Award-winning production of "Tilikum," Kristiana Rae Colón's drama about the onetime ki...
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Ron Onesti: Baseball memories are the only baseball this yearJun 19, 2020 6:00 am - I am honored to have been recently elected president of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. It is a 45-year-old organization of which I have been greatly ...
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Glenview's Oil Lamp Theater looks toward future in challenging timesJun 19, 2020 6:00 am - March 2020 may go down as the best and worst month theater artist Jay Pastucha ever experienced. On March 1, he took over as executive director of Glenview's Oil Lamp T...
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O'Donnell: Jeannie Morris grateful for aftermath of Brian Piccolo's short seasonJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - JEANNIE MORRIS WAS trying to link into a Zoom conference this week and her computer wasn't cooperating. It was frustrating - even though her background knowledge of the ...
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Non-equity Jeff Awards to be broadcast on YouTubeJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - The 47th annual non-equity Joseph Jefferson Awards honoring excellence in nonunion Chicago theater will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Monday, June 22, on YouTube. A virtual ce...