Entertainment
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Top dogs compete in show at Lake County FairgroundsJan 24, 2026 5:42 pm - The Lake County Fairgrounds was filled with man’s best friends and their owners as they vied for top honors at the Cool Cluster Dog Show this frigid Saturday in January.
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A game to remember: Chicago Bears fans recall a super day in New Orleans 40 years agoJan 24, 2026 12:00 pm - Forty years ago Monday, the Monsters of the Midway became the kings of the NFL with a Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots. Fans who made the trip to watch the game in New Orleans share their memories of the once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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St. Charles History Museum helps register first underground railroad safe house in Kane County.Jan 23, 2026 11:11 pm - The Joseph P. Bartlett Farm in Campton Township has been officially placed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom by the National Park Service.
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What’s behind our love-hate relationship with football?
Jan 23, 2026 3:06 pm - Though its release is timed to the height of the NFL postseason, Chuck Klosterman’s “Football” often seems inclined to put you off watching the sport. He muses at length about classic players and statistics, only to lament the dead-endedness of the debates they inspire.
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Provocative, laugh-out-loud funny ‘Eureka Day’ gets a superb regional premiereJan 23, 2026 12:30 pm - TimeLine Theatre and Broadway in Chicago deliver a compassionate, uproariously funny regional premiere of Jonathan Spector’s Tony Award-winning satire “Eureka Day.”
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Jodie Foster shines as a psychoanalyst on the edge in ‘A Private Life’
Jan 23, 2026 11:36 am - Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient unexpectedly dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private Life.” Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest is part noir, part comedy of remarriage, and part Freudian fever dream about past lives.
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Renée Fleming cancels Kennedy Center appearances
Jan 23, 2026 10:11 am - Renée Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership and the new leadership’s announcement that the venue would be renamed the Trump Kennedy Center.
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ — ‘Game of Thrones,’ but funnier
Jan 23, 2026 10:00 am - Set roughly 70 years after the events of “House of the Dragon” and nearly a century before the “Game of Thrones” saga, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” hews closer to a comedy than a work of prestige fantasy drama and consistently makes a point of undercutting any hint at excessive seriousness.
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‘Heated Rivalry’ stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to be torchbearers for Winter Olympics
Jan 23, 2026 7:00 am - The actors co-starring in the hit hockey romance TV series “Heated Rivalry” are set to be among the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame on the way to the Opening Ceremony for the Milan Cortina Games.
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How to watch the Oscar-nominated films
Jan 22, 2026 3:24 pm - Need to catch up on all the Oscar nominees? Here’s a look at where to watch them.