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Activities For All Ages This Holiday Weekend

The Naperville Jaycees Last Fling is a community festival over Labor Day weekend that gives families one more chance to let loose before the end of summer.
There will be a carnival, live entertainment, food vendors, business expo booths and more.
A Labor Day parade will take place on Monday starting at 10 a.m. in [...]

Chicago About To Transform Back Into a Normal City

It’s almost a wrap!
“Transformers 3″ is spending its last day filming in downtown Chicago on Thursday.
Shooting will start in Millennium Park from 6 to 11 a.m., where the crew will be using pyrotechnics to create explosions.
From 7 to 9 p.m., a helicopter will be flying above the main branch of the Chicago River filming explosions [...]

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It’s Like a Shopping Game for Adults

Need some new cookware? Want some for a penny apiece? Like stickers?
Jewel-Osco has started a promotion that is reminiscent of trading stamps from yesteryear.
Here’s how it works:
*You shop with your Jewel-Osco Preferred Customer Card
*You earn a reward sticker for every $10 spent on eligible purchases
*You save up your stickers
*You redeem those stickers for cookware
There are [...]

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Illinois Resident Could Score His Own Sears

You can help decide who gets their own Sears store.
Sears Hometown Stores and Maytag Brand Appliances held a contest called “Operation Stores and Stripes” with the goal of finding the most deserving U.S. military veteran in the country.
The winner gets their very own Sears Hometown Store.
The contest, which started in May, has gone through three [...]

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Go HBA Team Go!

It’s fall and that means high school and college sports are underway. But they aren’t the only teams competing this fall.  Home Builders Associations (HBAs) across the country are competing to win a FREE social media workshop from Carol Flammer.  Not only is Carol my partner in mRELEVANCE, but she is a home building [...]