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Last Fling’s Family Fun Land entertains all agesAug 29, 2012 2:41 pm - The fun continues to multiply and expand each year in Last Fling’s Family Fun Land. Meet a Disney star or take a pony ride. Check out some reptiles or create a masterpie...
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Wheaton, Carol Stream Fourth of July events are Labor Day weekendAug 29, 2012 7:54 am - The heat wave of early summer is almost gone, the dangerous drought conditions are easing, and the cleanup from the July 1 storm is nearly complete. Now residents of Whe...
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British charity cyclist arrives in Mt. ProspectAug 29, 2012 7:51 am - After 22 days of cycling Route 66, 63-year-old Jim Windass made it to Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care in Mount Prospect on Monday morning. The staff of Rainbow Hosp...
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Glen Ellyn’s Tavern Day a step back in timeAug 28, 2012 2:20 pm - Visitors will be able to step back to the time of the pioneers when the Glen Ellyn Historical Society celebrates Tavern Day from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at Stac...
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New gravestones to be placed at pioneer cemeteryAug 28, 2012 8:08 am - More than two dozen new gravestones will be dedicated Saturday, Sept. 1, at the nearly 160-year-old St. Stephen Cemetery on the Carol Stream-Wheaton border. The ceremony...
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Historical society director wants to tell Glen Ellyn's storiesAug 28, 2012 8:00 am - When Jan Shupert-Arick was growing up, the road trips her family took in their Studebaker station wagon gave her a taste for the adventure of discovering small-town Amer...
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What did mom do for daughter to defriend her?Aug 27, 2012 2:29 pm - Q My daughter kept posting on Facebook stuff about her exercise/marathon program: shoes with toes, boxing stuff, running stuff, volleyball ... she is a professional, sin...
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Civil War re-enactors set up camp at Graue Mill and MuseumAug 27, 2012 11:00 am - In the days of the Civil War, it was brother against brother and countryman against countryman. But what few appreciate is that if we had been alive then, they might hav...
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‘Project Runway’ co-host coming to NapervilleAug 27, 2012 8:54 am - Tim Gunn, the co-host of TV’s “Project Runway,” will sign copies of his new book during a September appearance in Naperville. Gunn became something of a pop culture ...
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Judge, author to discuss ‘Crisis of Capitalist Democracy’Aug 27, 2012 8:46 am - Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago is one of the most influential judges outside the Supreme Court, as well as a prolific ju...