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Cantigny re-enactment offers slice of Civil War lifeSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - “Jesse Martin” leads a simple life. A DuPage County farmer, he says he has spent more of his life behind a horse and plows than he has riding one. He did not graduate We...
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Battles, re-enactors part of Lake Villa's Civil War DaysSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - The Union and Confederated armies got another chance to fight the Battle of Bull Run — during the 9th Annual Civil War Days at the Lehmann Mansion in Lake Villa. The eve...
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Children's story springs to life as Skippyjon Jones musical in NapervilleSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - Skippyjon Jones loves to pretend. Sure, he may have been a kitten when his mom sent him to his room. But in his mind's eye, he's a Chihuahua and sometimes he's in Mexic...
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Bensenville Heritage Day mixes fall fun, historySep 28, 2011 12:00 am - For kids, Heritage Day in Bensenville is a fall festival filled with pony rides, pumpkins and a petting zoo. And yes, said Jonathan Sebastian, those things are key elem...
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Scientists are studying Jupiter’s Great Red SpotSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - You wanted to know “How was Jupiter’s red spot made and how big is the planet?” asked Jen Janik’s third-graders at Big Hollow Elementary School in Ingleside. Jupiter, th...
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South Elgin will be home to trampoline parkSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - Just in time for the colder weather, a new way to have fun and burn off some energy indoors is coming to the Randall Road corridor. In November, Epic Air Trampoline Park...
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Yo-Yo Ma to perform Bach at North Central CollegeSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform a rare solo concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, in North Central College's acoustically perfect Wentz Concert Hall at 171 E....
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Naperville’s ADOPT gives students chance to work with animalsSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - Rachel Myrna, 20, is normally quiet, her mother Ann says. That is until someone asks her about one of her loves — the cats at Naperville’s Animals Deserving of Proper T...
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Wheaton Bible Church pastor writes book after wife's deathSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - The enormity of his loss swept over the Rev. Robert Bugh in his laundry room one evening about two months after Carol, his wife of 27 years, died of cancer. Only a year...
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Kirk Players president wins community theater awardSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - Sheila Bourque, longtime member and newly installed president of the Kirk Players, will receive Illinois Theatre Association’s 2011 Award of Excellence in Community Thea...