Indian American community life in Naperville, Aurora and the western suburbs of Chicago: temples, schools, local politics, festivals and families.
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Naperville students brought science experiments to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2012 — a small win for the idea that the lab can be a path to prime
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Bookwallah, a Naperville-area children's book nonprofit, held a fundraiser on May 25, 2012 at the White Eagle Clubhouse to build orphanage libraries.
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Archived 2012 item about a Hindi program in Naperville-area schools; its specific claims could not be verified. Not indexed.
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A no-touch energy therapy from Choa Kok Sui working with prana and chakras; crystal healing adds gemstones. Not medical advice.
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Volume 8: spring calls for restraint — vivid-green palak paneer, cold cucumber-mint raita, simple basmati, and thin roomali roti.
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A rainy-spring Friday menu: lamb keema with browned onions and peas, hand chapati, a carrot raita — and a glass of something cold.
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As I sat down to face my mom, I sensed she was unhappy about something. “Joe, I am disappointed in you.Your writing scores are terribly low.You need to work…
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Friday menu, vol. 6: bright tomato-coriander chicken curry, charred spring asparagus, and golden turmeric rice — ease that looks like effort.
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Naperville parents Paul and Amy Miller, who lost 18-year-old daughter Megan to heroin, began educating other families about the drug's reach into suburbia.
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This week's Friday table took us to Le Siam in Naperville for Tom Kha soup, crazy noodles, and Massaman curry — plus a home-style Tom Kha recipe to try
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The much-awaited week of that treasured statue is here; yet, that’s exactly how I feel whenever I recall that Alfred Hitchcock never received even one for…
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Holi, the festival of colors, falls on March 8 this year (Holika Dahan on March 7). A practical guide to the bonfire, the color play, and the food.
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The Friday cooking column continues with Mrinalini Sen's Easy Breezy Bhindi, a Bengali Sorshe-Posto style okra preparation with mustard-poppy paste.
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This Friday: slow-simmered black lentil dal with a buttery tadka, roasted cauliflower with a spiced yogurt marinade, and a fresh kachumber on the side.
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Shaun Wild, 24, a Spring Brook Elementary second-grade teacher, was fatally stabbed at Frankie's Blue Room in Naperville on Feb 4, 2012, breaking up a fight.
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Maitreyee Das launches her Friday food column — a Bengali fish lover's quest for an easy recipe inspired by a restaurant spinach-and-cod dish.
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The winter of 2011–12 barely showed up across the Northern Hemisphere: Chicagoans wore light jackets in January as NOAA confirmed the fourth-warmest winter.
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A Naperville family of four — Iqbal Habib, Zeenat, and their children Fareeza and Ashaz — lost their lives in a road accident in India while on vacation.
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A look at Mama Poppins, the drop-in childcare service at Fox Valley Mall — and what mall-based babysitting says about how suburban families live now.
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By the early 2010s, business leaders and educators agreed the US was falling dangerously behind in STEM — an explainer on the state of science education.
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