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This Grinch Embodies Community Spirit

This Grinch Embodies Community Spirit

Have you noticed? It seems like increasingly, the Grinch is more popular than Santa during the holidays. A series of TikTok videos even explore this phenomenon, but Natalie Griffin, co-founder of Gerry's Cafe in Arlington Heights, has her own theory: "I think the...

St. Raymond Parish Celebrates 75 Years in the Community

St. Raymond Parish Celebrates 75 Years in the Community

As St. Raymond de Penafort Church celebrates its 75th anniversary this year of serving families in Mount Prospect and the Northwest suburbs, this much they know: While its pastors and associate pastors have changed over the years, its lay parishioners have partnered...

Warm Up to this Year’s Version of Christmas Carol

Warm Up to this Year’s Version of Christmas Carol

The story of Dickens' A Christmas Carol is familiar to most theatergoers, but the adaptation playing now at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, is well, warmer, according to Executive Director David Victor. "Though it's the same one-act adaptation, this year's tale...

Centenarian in Arlington Heights Counts Her Blessings

Centenarian in Arlington Heights Counts Her Blessings

Gertie Rodig of Arlington Heights turned 102 earlier this month, but don't tell her that. She's too busy enjoying life and especially meeting new people. Her family threw an open house to celebrate her birthday, in the home where Gertie has lived since she and her...

World Premiere Play Opening at Hoffman Estates High School

World Premiere Play Opening at Hoffman Estates High School

Theater students at Hoffman Estates High School are bringing to life a show that is both hundreds of years in the making and a world premiere all at once. A Walk with the Bard was written and directed by Christina Ordonez, a former English teacher at the school and...

Prospect Marching Band Salutes Veterans in Washington DC

Prospect Marching Band Salutes Veterans in Washington DC

The Prospect Marching Knights have played military marches for years in the Memorial Day parades in Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect, but this week they played those same marches in the nation's capital for a Veterans Day salute. After months of fundraising, band...

Santa Marches to the Beat of Conant Drumline

Santa Marches to the Beat of Conant Drumline

It's a tradition that launches the start of the holiday season, when Santa makes his arrival at Woodfield Mall. This year, the jolly old elf parades around the shopping center at 6 p.m. on Thursday. The tradition stretches back more than 50 years, back to when...

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