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Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: Fly Me to the Moon : An animated 3-D movie in the Adler's new Universe Theater about three flies who ...

Fish jumping in other coves. Kids playing at camp sites. Metallic bangs from distant boats.

A man accused of slaying a Cambridge realtor earlier this year changed his plea on Friday in a Jefferson County court.

La Grange officials may have violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act in citing an exemption to discuss a possible funding partnership with the La Grange Theatre in a closed-door session April 21.

Fire up the barbecue, slice some watermelon, ignite the sparklers - it's time for the Fourth of July.

Don't let the heat, boredom or the kids bug you this summer. Instead, bug out at various insect-related activities throughout the city.

Event Phone Number: 744-3315. Interactive, online map for this year's Taste now available at www.map.mapnetwork.com/event/tasteofchicago/. It provides all restaurant menus, a comprehensive event schedule, ...

Some people think celebrating birthdays is for the birds. That pleases Cookie Cockatoo, who hopes there will be a large turnout for his 75th birthday celebration at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 28, at the Perching ...

Kit's Home on Abbott Place: Kit Kittredge, American Girl's 1930s-era character, will have a ten-foot high replica of her home from the movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl , on display at John Hancock Center, ...

Kamp Gallery: 563 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka. 441-7999. A new collection of 25 expressive still lifes and landscapes recently acquired from leading contemporary European Union artists will be exhibited for the ...

Police have arrested an Aurora man they say exposed himself near a park earlier this month.

You don't have to go on a Caribbean cruise to get close to a stingray or shark, even close enough to touch.

Ravinia Festival 2008: The season opens May 31 and runs through Sept. 14. Festival grounds, Lake Cook and Greenbay Road, Highland Park.

Alyce and Rafael Alexander have been preparing for the birth of their child for months.

Mario Fulgencio , 37, of 502 Liberty St., Joliet, was arrested Friday by Joliet police, charged with possession of a controlled substance and taken to the Will County jail.

Chicago bound Metra commuter local arriving at the Hollywood depot. Brookfield Illinois USA. via Eddie's Rail Fan Page

“I don't want to talk about it.”

When I told my kids we were going to the zoo to pet stingrays and sharks, I got two reactions. via Chicago Tribune

“Prices are subject to change without notice.”

Write a review for Chequers of La Grange Chequers of La Grange 100 W. Burlington St. via Chicago Tribune

Why? According to Project Laundry List, six to ten percent of residential energy use in the U.S. goes toward running clothes dryers. via ReadyMade

“In short, there'll be a dramatic reduction in the amount of train traffic out there”

RIVERSIDE, Ill. - North Riverside and Riverside could be the beneficiaries of a plan by the Canadian National Railroad to purchase a suburban rail line in order to reroute freight traffic around the City of ... via Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...