Entertainment
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Love triumphs over lore in the teary ‘Stranger Things’ finale
Jan 02, 2026 9:40 am - “Stranger Things” believes in repair. The series that started with kids playing Dungeons & Dragons has done many things well over its nine-year run. It created a stable of memorable characters. It featured an impressively varied range of monsters. It delivered flavors of horror ranging from physical to psychological to supernatural to simply geopolitical. Above all, it captured that ’80s feeling.
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Entertainment venues, grocery stores and more on tap for suburbs in 2026Jan 02, 2026 8:52 am - Pickleball courts, child day care facilities, data centers and restaurants have been popping up or proposed throughout the suburbs but they won’t be the only newcomers in 2026.
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Why is it called Half Day Road? Learn about that and other surprises at the Lake County History SymposiumJan 01, 2026 5:35 pm - History buffs and those with a general curiosity can learn how researchers separate myth from fact during the upcoming Lake County History Symposium.
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Daisy Ridley holds onto hope in the zombie thriller ‘We Bury the Dead’
Jan 01, 2026 5:15 am - Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. In the case of “We Bury the Dead,” something cosmically catastrophic is coming: the accidental detonation of an experimental weapon that instantly wipes out some 500,000 people in Tasmania, including Ava’s (Daisy Ridley) husband, Mitch (Matt Whelan).
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‘The Plague’ dives into a sink-or-swim water polo camp
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Roselle applies amusement tax to streaming servicesDec 31, 2025 3:41 pm - Roselle officials have increased the village’s amusement tax rate from 3% to 5% and agreed to apply it to streaming services as part of a "maintenance" budget for the new fiscal year.
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Daytime star Susan Lucci appearing in Naperville Feb. 9Dec 31, 2025 12:01 pm - The queen of daytime television will be in Naperville in February to promote her new memoir, “La Lucci.” Anderson’s Bookshop will host a Q&A with the Emmy-award winning actress best known for her role as Erica Kane on “All My Children.”
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The worst movies of 2025
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English actors Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton welcome their second child
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Restaurants must adapt to boomers’ needs and preferencesDec 31, 2025 10:11 am - Restaurants are always changing. New concepts come and go, trends shift, prices climb, portions grow — and then shrink again. But for those of us who are baby boomers, these aren’t the changes we’re thinking about.