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A packed house filled the Athletes of Dance studio inside the Masonic Temple Saturday morning for its 2012 Spring Presentation dance recital. The recital featured dancers of all ages show...

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Batter up! The DuPage County Hounds are a new collegiate wood-bat team with players from Patch towns such as Darien, Downers Grove, Lemont, Lisle and Western Springs. The team's ope...

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Tuesday morning, my boss forwarded me an email about a co-worker. I responded to the email, when suddenly I realized the reply went to my co-worker—not my boss. My dilated pupils sta...

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A three day weekend is upon us, DG readers, so what will you do this holiday? Are you planning on kicking off the weekend at the Downtown Car Show tonight, featuring Ford, Mercury an...

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The DuPage County Health Department has information on recreational water illnesses, just in time for those planning trips to local swim clubs and water parks. “Germs on your body en...

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As if on cue, a cavalcade of offers to share the last few weeks of summer fun came rushing in during the past week. Realizing the end was near, I managed to pack in three trips to the poo...

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The annual summer job search was a right of passage among all my friends. You started talking about it in March, thinking about it in April, forgetting about it in May and then you went t...

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Like a lot of other refugees of this economy, we have had to forgo the traditional summer vacation the last couple of years in favor of a downtown "staycation" (is there a word more syno...