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Celebrate Summer’s Last Hurrah! with Elgin Rotary ClubAug 18, 2025 1:59 am - The Rotary Club of Elgin hosts a free, family-friendly end-of-summer celebration on Sept. 6 featuring live music, kids activities, craft fair, pet parade, food trucks, and raffle.
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Heirloom varieties take center stage at Garfield Farm Museum’s annual showAug 17, 2025 10:28 pm - Garfield Farm Museum's Heirloom Garden Show on Sunday, Aug. 24, will feature tours, prairie plot, and growers of antique produce varieties working to preserve genetic diversity.
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‘Bigger and more beautiful’: Wheaton coffee house owner opens The Kilns downtownAug 17, 2025 9:00 pm - The owner of a bustling coffee shop in downtown Wheaton has unveiled The Kilns, a new co-working and social house named after the home of “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis.
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‘God put us on the same flight’: Doctor makes house call at 30,000 feet to help Palatine manAug 17, 2025 9:00 pm - What began as a routine international flight turned into a medical emergency for 71-year-old Larry Stoklosa of Palatine, who lost consciousness while flying from Frankfurt to Chicago.
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Getting another fix at the 56 Music FixAug 17, 2025 6:17 pm - Mount Prospect’s 56 Music Fix wraps up Sunday with a third day of shows at venues and found performance spaces across the village.
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Home & garden calendar, Aug. 17-23Aug 17, 2025 6:01 pm - Upcoming garden club meetings, plant sales, and garden shows in the Chicago suburbs.
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Judge denies release for Buffalo Grove man accused of secretly recording at Addison ice cream shopAug 17, 2025 2:43 pm - A Buffalo Grove man charged with using hidden cameras to record secretly multiple females, including minors, at his Addison ice cream shop was denied pretrial release Sunday.
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Suburbs cleaning up from ‘microbursts’ as thousands remain without powerAug 17, 2025 2:30 pm - The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday that microbursts hit the suburbs Saturday, causing damage across the area and leaving thousands without power.
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State police trooper injured in I-88 crash involving suspected drunk driverAug 17, 2025 10:39 am - An Illinois State Police trooper was injured early Sunday when a suspected drunk driver slammed into a stopped patrol vehicle along I-88 near Elmhurst, authorities said.
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Hampshire High School student fatally shot; Suspect charged with manslaughterAug 17, 2025 10:22 am - A Hampshire man faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting late Saturday of a 17-year-old Hampshire High School senior.