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Things to Do
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Chicago and a number of suburbs are offering special dining deals during restaurant weeks now through early February.
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Theater artists and brothers Brian and Marvin Quijada update a famous Mark Twain fable for the digital age with “Kid Prince and Pablo” at Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre.
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A chef from Aurora faced the mystery basket on an episode of “Chopped” Tuesday, and we’re deep (dish) into National Pizza week, which runs through Saturday, Jan. 18.
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Mark your calendar for Wheeling Winterfest, Martin Luther King Jr. Day events throughout the suburbs, the Chicago Fishing Expo and more happening this week.
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A new Elmhurst History Museum exhibition chronicles the transformation of the community, Martin Luther King Jr. tributes take place in Chicago, and Disney on Ice skates into Rosemont’s Allstate Arena next week.
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Leigh Whannell’s sometimes ridiculous and emotionally muted horror tale “Wolf Man” tosses out all the traditional conventions we expect in the werewolf genre, film critic Dann Gire says.
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Upcoming concerts this week include Kelsea Ballerini with Sasha Alex Sloan and Marynn Taylor; Blood, Sweat and Tears with Jason Scheff; Big Head Todd and the Monsters with Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket and more.
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Nirvana Wine and Grillerie, a scratch kitchen that opened in 2008 in a strip center in Vernon Hills, is moving and expanding into a new space nearby on Hawthorn Row.
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BrightSide Theatre presents a concert version of the musical “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Northlight stages a two-hander about Asian immigrants titled “The Heart Sellers,” and Writers Theatre presents “Frida ... A Self Portrait.”
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