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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...
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DuPage photographers look high and low for perfect shotAug 26, 2012 5:55 am - Each week’s DuPage County Neighbor section includes at least one entry in our Photo Finish contest. Our photo staff picks some of their favorite submissions to run each ...
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Stolp brought Aurora together on common groundAug 25, 2012 10:08 am - On May 17, 1837, Joseph G. Stolp set out from his home in Marcellus, N.Y., to seek his fortune in “the West” — Illinois. Relations already were living there and encoura...
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Corn smut, drought and insects: tales from a community gardenAug 25, 2012 10:05 am - Smut. Drought. High winds. Infertility. Ravenous insects. I’ve battled them all this summer in my plot at the Community Gardens in Geneva. And I’ve heard from other gard...