Entertainment
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Gilberts Community Days features carnival, concerts and classic carsMay 21, 2026 12:58 pm - Gilberts Community Days on May 28-31 features live music, children's activities including a petting zoo, carnival rides, and a classic car show. The annual festival also includes a Craft & Artisan Market with over 40 vendors on Saturday.
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‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ makes a clumsy big-screen debut
May 21, 2026 5:15 am - It’s been nearly seven years since there was a new “Star Wars” movie released in theaters, and there are lots of ways to do it. “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a disjointed off-ramp that lacks the scale and ambition of its sisters, fails the task.
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Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ is a wild, surrealist social satire
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Fox River Arts Ramble features eight art locations in St. Charles and GenevaMay 20, 2026 10:17 pm - The Fox River Arts Ramble on June 6 is a free, self-guided art tour featuring eight locations across St. Charles and Geneva, including galleries, artists' studios, and art organizations where visitors can explore and purchase various artworks.
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McKee Preservation Group unveiling a Three Sisters Garden May 23May 20, 2026 9:10 pm - The McKee Preservation Group is creating a Three Sisters Garden in Glen Ellyn to demonstrate how Native Americans traditionally grew corn, beans, and squash, with a planting event scheduled for May 23.The garden is part of a larger initiative to establish a Native American Cultural and Environmental Center at Churchill Woods Forest Preserve, the site of a historic Potawatomi village.
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Drinks to go? Arlington Heights could allow patrons to sip and stroll this summerMay 20, 2026 7:03 pm - Arlington Heights is considering a pilot “social district” program that would allow patrons to carry alcoholic beverages from licensed establishments while walking through the downtown Arlington Alfresco dining zone.
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Lake Zurich clears way for another broadband option in townMay 20, 2026 5:34 pm - Lake Zurich residents and businesses will be getting another choice for fiber optic broadband services.
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Paramount’s ‘South Pacific’ stirs memories for columnist with WWII family tiesMay 20, 2026 4:56 pm - The “South Pacific” production at Paramount Theatre in Aurora had been on my calendar for more than a year. I couldn’t wait to see it — and it did not disappoint last week.
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Timely as ever: TimeLine Theatre inaugurates new home with superb ‘Enemy of the People’May 20, 2026 4:42 pm - A superb revival of the ever-resonant “An Enemy of the People” inaugurates TimeLine Theatre Company’s new home.
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Chili contest May 30 at Wheeling police stationMay 20, 2026 2:35 pm - Two Wheeling nonprofit groups will hold a chili cook-off for charity May 30 at the police station, 1 Community Blvd.