Local
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Penny for your thoughts in West Dundee?Sep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Are you looking for a way to spend some of those pennies lying around the house? Well, Carpentersville’s Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5915 is ho...
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Cantigny Park hosts scale model of World War II memorialSep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Local World War II veterans who would like to pay their respects at the National World War II Memorial but are unable to travel to Washington, D.C., will be able to visi...
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North Central exhibit creates 'powerful' combo of words, imagesSep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Narrative artwork by Robert Bean will be featured in the exhibit “Storylines: From Past to Present” at North Central College in Naperville. The free public exhibit opens...
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Chicago Sinfonietta makes Naperville its new suburban homeSep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Chicago Sinfonietta Music Director Mei-Ann Chen's name means beautiful tranquillity, however, she promises that's not what Naperville audiences are going to see this wee...
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Moving Planet DuPage part of global effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuelsSep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Organizers are aiming for 350 participants to bike, walk or car pool to the Prairie Path in Villa Park on Saturday, Sept. 24. Why 350? That's the safe number of parts p...
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Midwest SOARRING brings back its popular pow wow despite economic concernsSep 22, 2011 12:00 am - Joseph Standing Bear Schranz has organized more than 50 pow wows in his life, each more important than the last. This weekend Schranz and his organization, the Midwest...
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Elgin artist to sell work at folk art fairSep 21, 2011 12:00 am - Chris Robinson has always dabbled in some sort of art project, trying various things over the last several decades. Years ago she made hundreds of Santa and Uncle Sam do...
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Green Fair celebrates saving energy, recyclingSep 21, 2011 12:00 am - Pedal, pedal, pedal and pedal some more — that’s the energy required to power three standard incandescent light bulbs. Pedal. That’s what it takes, comparatively speaki...
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MHS invites cops, firefighters to memorial breakfastSep 21, 2011 12:00 am - Members of the Mundelein fire and police departments were the guests of honor at Mundelein High School for a breakfast to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Hosted b...
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Practice how to handle embarrassing social situationsSep 21, 2011 12:00 am - Q. I was out to dinner with my mom a few nights ago and we were seated at a table next to a middle-aged couple. I was facing the husband and noticed immediately af...