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How a writer created his own take on 'A Christmas Story' set in his 1980s Batavia childhood
Dec 21, 2021 5:30 AM - As a kid growing up in Batavia, Kevin Jakubowski loved the movie "A Christmas Story" and his Nintendo video game console. He paired the two with his "8-Bit Christmas," a 1980s suburban take on the holiday classic. -
Fellow suburban breweries help tornado-damaged Skeleton Key on long road to reopening
Jan 12, 2022 9:13 AM - Emily Slayton of Skeleton Key Brewery shares how the craft brewing community came to help her Woodridge business after it took a direct hit from a tornado in June. -
'You just live in a new normal': Recovery from Naperville tornado moving slowly
Dec 18, 2021 6:20 PM - Six months after a devastating tornado tore through Naperville, residents still are struggling to recover. -
Constable: $275,000 guitar just part of luthiers' magic work in Wauconda
Dec 11, 2021 4:44 PM - Luthiers Marshall Bruné and his father, Richard Bruné, have carved out a global reputation building and restoring guitars in their Wauconda workshop. One guitar they restored recently sold for $275,000.
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Tornado kills scores in Kentucky, other states: See drone footage of destruction
Dec 11, 2021 3:41 PM - A monstrous tornado killed dozens of people in Kentucky and the toll was climbing Saturday after severe weather ripped through at least five states, including Illinois, leaving widespread devastation.
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Watch: A month before his death, Monkees' Michael Nesmith performed with Dolenz in Rosemont
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Not new but 'more brazen': What's behind recent smash-and-grab robbery trend?
Dec 10, 2021 10:35 AM - A surge in brazen smash-and-grab robberies at stores across the suburbs and nation has retailers worried and shoppers scared. What's behind the trend, and what is law enforcement doing about it?
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Nolan, born premature, is under the care of the doctor at Edward Hospital who cared for his mother 24 years ago
Dec 9, 2021 6:19 AM - It was a reunion of sorts at Naperville's Edward Hospital when Dr. Bob Covert began treating a premature baby boy who happens to be the son of a patient he cared for 24 years earlier in the same Newborn Intensive Care Unit. "This is the first one where a baby who was once in the NICU here has delivered a NICU baby here, too," he said. -
Inventive storytelling propels Northlight Theatre's premiere of 'Mr. Dickens' Hat'
Dec 8, 2021 3:39 PM - Northlight Theatre's world premiere of "Mr. Dickens' Hat" is an imaginative work of theater that celebrates the art of storytelling and one of its masters, Charles Dickens.
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'We don't ever forget': Antioch woman saw the Pearl Harbor attack as a child in Hawaii
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