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  • October 2025
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    Trunk or Treat Free Community Event

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    Cinema on Paper

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    ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP: DEALING WITH FEELING (EVENT 1 OF 4)

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    RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE

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    FAN: Dream School – Finding the College That’s Right for You

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    Breaking Barriers with Becky Calder

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    Elevated Spaces: A Design Lunch & Learn

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    Pre-Show Dinner at Gorton

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    Griffin House

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    Do Not Submit-Lake Forest

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    Rendezvous Arts: True Colors Baroque Period

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    Ukraine: Behind the Frontlines and Beyond the Headlines

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    How Not to Age with Dr. Michael Greger

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    Matthew Broussard

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    Alyssa Allgood & Chris Madsen Quintet

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    Kids Only Holiday Shop

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    PAWS Chicago Adoption Event

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    Red Cross Blood Drive

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    Rendezvous Arts: Christmas O’Carolan

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    Peanuts Jazz with the Chris White Trio 2025

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    Holly Jolly Family Show

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    Holly Jolly Concert

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  • January 2026
  • Sun 11

    Red Rose Jazz 2026

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    Rendezvous Arts: Latin Jazz

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    The Magic of Jeki Yoo

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    American English

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    The Zaniac

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  • February 2026
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    Billy Goats Gruff and Other Tales

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    Rendezvous Arts: Kaia String Quartet & Fareed Haque

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    Frontiers: The World’s Number One Tribute to Journey

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