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Can a rom-com be honest about money? Celine Song’s smart ‘Materialists’ gives it a go

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Jun 12, 2025 5:30 am - The problem with so many rom-coms is how often we’re asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life’s realities. Celine Song’s “Materialists” is something else entirely. Economic reality drives the narrative.
Marimba maestro to bring literary beats to St. Charles library

By Denise Blaszynski, St. Charles Public Library
Jun 11, 2025 11:20 pm - Percussionist Josh Graham concludes the St. Charles Library's 2024-25 Sunday Concert Series on June 22, performing recently commissioned marimba works inspired by works of literature.
Glen Ellyn Vintage Auto Fest celebrates 10 years

Submitted by Jean Jeske
Jun 11, 2025 11:01 pm - The 10th annual Glen Ellyn Vintage Auto Fest succeeds with 27 vintage cars, 220 visitors, and a program on Chicago's historic early 20th-century Motor Row District.
Glen Ellyn Historical Society to host Vintage and Antique Market

Submitted by Jean Jeske
Jun 11, 2025 10:45 pm - The Glen Ellyn Historical Society is holding a Vintage and Antique Market fundraiser on June 19-21 at the Glen Ellyn History Center. Donations are accepted June 17-18.
Chuck and Heidi Howlett named 2025 Swedish Days parade marshals

By Johanna Patterson, Geneva Chamber of Commerce
Jun 11, 2025 8:25 pm - Geneva couple Chuck and Heidi Howlett are named the 2025 Swedish Days parade marshals for their community service restoring cemeteries and volunteering with local groups.
Swedish Days is celebrating 75 years of history and tradition

Daily Herald report
Jun 11, 2025 7:37 pm - Geneva's Swedish Days on June 18-22 celebrates its diamond jubilee this year with a theme of "A Stroll Through History."
Northwest Fourth Fest returns to Now Arena in Hoffman Estates July 2-6

Submitted by Hoffman Estates
Jun 11, 2025 5:37 pm - Northwest Fourth Fest, the region’s largest free-admission Fourth of July Celebration, returns to Hoffman Estates this summer.
10 songs to celebrate the life, legacy of Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson

By MARIA SHERMAN
Jun 11, 2025 4:18 pm - The musical world lost a giant with news Wednesday that Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, had died. He was 82. To celebrate Wilson's life and legacy, here are just a few songs that made the man.
For a couple of years, Beach Boy Brian Wilson called St. Charles home

By Dave Oberhelman
Jun 11, 2025 3:25 pm - Legendary Beach Boys leader and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, spent some time in Illinois, living in a five-bedroom St. Charles home with a custom-built basement recording studio.
Indiana Jones’ whip, Kane’s Rosebud sled and Culkin’s ‘Home Alone’ snow cap are going up for auction

Jun 11, 2025 3:12 pm - Many of movies’ most sought-after props are going up for auction, including the Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane,” Macaulay Culkin’s knit snow cap from “Home Alone” and a whip wielded by Harrison Ford during the Holy Grail trials of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

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