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Amazon Fresh store opens in suburban Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — There's a new place to shop for groceries in Arlington Heights, and residents in the northwest suburb seemed ready to shop until they dropped. There were at least a dozen shoppers lined up for the grand opening of the Amazon Fresh location in Arlington Heights.The first customer in line received a $100 Amazon gift card, and the next 99 received gift cards between $5 and $15.One shopper stood in line to take Amazon's new Smart cart for a spin.Amazon donated $10,000 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository to celebrate the store opening.
Parks and Rec staff and board disagree over approach to creating new parks
At the July 18 Parks and Recreation Board meeting, disagreement between staff and board members – mayoral appointees approved by the City Council – over city projects sparked tensions, prompting a council member in the audience to speak up. At the meeting, staff and board members were working...
Sworn In - BUS INVADERS (Revisited) Ep. 251 [VIDEO]
On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders (Revisited)”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the metalcore band, Sworn In, while on tour with King Conquer, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Adaliah, and Sworn In, back in 2013. You can check watch the video below:
Chicago-area author pens book on how COVID-19 pandemic changed the world
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the way we work, socialize and navigate the world. While the memories may be fresh for some, a local author hopes to give readers a cathartic look back those years."The Time We Have Left: Essays on Pandemic Living" by journalist Michele Weldon, navigates the upending nature of this extraordinary pandemic era. The book explores the joy, pain and triumph of those years, offering readers connection and healing after what we all experienced.On August 14, the Oak Park-Public Library will host a Q&A discussion with Weldon from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., located at 848 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60301. It's free but you must register on the library's website.Then on August 28, Weldon will host a book launch party at 7 p.m. at Women & Children First Bookstore, located at 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60640. This is also a free event. You can register here.
“Love Will Find Away” now that Pablo Cruise sailed into Skokie’s North Shore Center
Long before the term “yacht rock” was coined, Pablo Cruise was practically inventing the style, coasting through the 1970s into the ‘80s with some of the most sophisticated sounds around. Though the group took a lengthy hiatus after that primary time frame, co-founding guitarist/vocalist David Jenkins and...
Beyond Hunger to host benefit concert in November
Beyond Hunger is hosting a fundraising concert this fall to support its hunger-relief initiatives in communities like Oak Park and River Forest. The fall benefit concert will kick off at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at The Salt Shed in Chicago. The event, at 1357 N. Elston Ave., will feature CAKE, a California-based rock band.
Evanston Art Center showcases new exhibition opening August 10
The Evanston Art Center is excited to welcome the exhibition, Migrations in Black and White | 2.0 to the public. The exhibition is open from August 10 through September 8, with the opening reception taking place from 5 to 8 p.m. on August 11. Migrations in Black and White |...
Book review: A pandemic life well lived
“We must remove the mask,” Montaigne famously advised, to reveal that “in every one of us is the entire human condition.” No doubt a tall order even for the 16th century French philosopher and godfather of essayists. It can’t be any easier for his 21st century descendants.
Les Mis storms the North Shore
Repression, revolution, rebirth: the tides of change are always rolling, in politics and art. Uptown Music Theater in Highland Park leans into that spirit with their latest production: a revival of the global smash hit Les Misérables. Adapted from Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of the same name, the musical (created by composer Claude-Michel Schönberg with a book by Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Jean-Marc Natel and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer) has played to over 130 million people in 53 countries and in 22 languages. It started as a concept album in 1980, and had a run in Paris that same year. But when megaproducer Cameron Mackintosh got ahold of it for an English-language version, it really took off—even though the initial reviews in the UK were far from positive. (One critic called it “a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness.”)
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