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Hundreds of visitors came to downtown Geneva on Saturday with coffee on their minds. Beginning at 11 a.m., the Geneva Chamber of Commerce offered its fifth annual Coffee Crawl, a four-hour self ...

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Home to one of the country's most impressive collections of impressionist and post-impressionist art (plus works from numerous other genres), the expansive Art Institute of Chicago features nearly ...

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A Chicago fire captain died Wednesday morning while battling a blaze inside a garage in the city’s Austin neighborhood, and a person of interest is in custody in connection with the fire.