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Bartlett native Robinson Cook is the MVP of League One Volleyball in year oneMay 07, 2025 7:47 pm - In the midst of a “crazy year,” St. Francis High School graduate, Bartlett native and Olympian Kelsey Robinson Cook was named most valuable player of the start-up women’s volleyball league, League One Volleyball.
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West Chicago Garden Club’s annual plant sale returns for Blooming Fest on May 17May 07, 2025 6:59 pm - The West Chicago Garden Club Plant Sale is a popular annual event featuring thousands of perennials, annuals, trees, and vegetables at reasonable prices.
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‘One of our biggest challenges’: Modernizing Wildwood water system includes replacing old linesMay 07, 2025 6:33 pm - Water-related improvements in the unincorporated Wildwood and Gages Lake areas near Grayslake will continue this year.
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‘Alex Ross: Heroes & Villains’ exhibition opens this summer at the Bess Bower Dunn MuseumMay 07, 2025 6:15 pm - The art of Alex Ross is instantly recognizable. Known for his hyper-realistic painting style of classic comic book characters, Ross has transformed the comic world into fine art.
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Nothing succeeds like 1980s excess in Metropolis’ ‘Rock of Ages’ revivalMay 07, 2025 6:01 pm - Over-the-top in the best possible way, “Rock of Ages,” the jukebox musical send-up of 1980s glam metal and the people who loved it, gets a high-energy revival courtesy of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.
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After delays, controversial church proposal heads to South Barrington village boardMay 07, 2025 5:23 pm - After months of delays, a controversial plan to construct a church and school in South Barrington has cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle and is headed to the village board Thursday night for consideration.
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New Lisle mayor shakes up village leadership with appointmentsMay 07, 2025 5:08 pm - Lisle's newly elected mayor and village trustees have hired a new village manager and assigned the current one to another position.
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‘He really does make a difference’: South Elgin HS precision manufacturing teacher wins Golden Apple AwardMay 07, 2025 3:47 pm - South Elgin High School precision manufacturing teacher Matthew Erbach was awarded a Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching on Wednesday.
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Lake Forest mountaineer battling cancer dies climbing fifth-tallest mountain on EarthMay 07, 2025 3:41 pm - Lake Forest resident Alexander Pancoe, an alpinist and philanthropist battling cancer, died doing what he loved, his wife Nina Laski Pancoe said.
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Northbrook police investigating Palatine woman’s death near train tracksMay 07, 2025 3:13 pm - Northbrook police are investigating the death of a 41-year-old Palatine woman who appears to have been struck by a Union Pacific freight train.