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Car camps
Interested in some off-pavement adventure? While a gasoline-fueled vacation may not top everyone’s list right now, off-road opportunities within a day’s drive may be an affordable ticket to some family fun.
• Car camps
• Mini Cooper Clubman
• Photos: Mini Cooper Clubman
• Photos: Best MPG SUVs
• Photos: 30 mpg cars
• Calculate: Your cost for gas
• Video: 2008 Mustang Bullitt

Food & Recipes
Spring salads
As the weather warms up our thoughts turn to outdoor entertaining and fresh foods and salads. Need to update your recipe files? Help is just a click away. Tons of quick videos demonstrating cooking techniques and an extensive archive of recipes and other exclusively culinary content.
• Recipe Archive
• Cooking videos

• Bond set at $500,000 in wrong-way Ike crash
• School damaged in roof fire in Wheaton
• Explosive devices found in apartment
• Lincoln Highway author to speak
• Brochure details plans for Lincoln bicentennial
• Library holding photo contest
• Hybrid show offers hope in gas-conscious age
• Athlete wanted 'to see his mom stress-free'
• Fair days ahead
• Sun Calendar
• Explosives found in Glen Ellyn home
• Coyote sightings reported in Wheaton
• Sun Calendar
• Cranes settle into new love nest
• Parade watchers treated to star-spangled spectacle

• Glenbard West's Watt to play football at Notre Dame
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• Three letters that spell heartbreak
• Sports collectibles avoid economic slump so far
• Invitation to an elite party
• Different reasons, same commitment
• Even Tigers can let poor judgment get the best of them
Griffins' late-inning lightning strikes again Video: Local QBs in the spotlight New-look Waubonsie cruises into semis Wednesday's state baseball roundup Pfister's pitching keeps Elk Grove on track

Ice cream purveyors dish on biggest sellers
Ask the people who run three different ice cream parlors what sells best at their places, and you'll likely get three distinct answers - although it's possible their own personal preferences are more aligned than you might expect.


• Video: Ice cream lick-a-thon
• Web Extra: Recipe for Ice Cream Layer Cake

• Madame Rieck found Glen Ellyn the perfect place to do business
• Summer skin care, au natural
• What was cooking in 1911? Book serves as culinary time capsule
• Local foodies blog on savory topics
• The freedom to grill as we please
• The great ice wagon race is on

Goats no excuse for this ex-Cubs' pitcher
Dr. Rich Nye is used to tight jams. He was a steady pitcher for the late '60s Cubs who faced big cats like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. But on a slow moving summer morning, the 6-foot-5 southpaw is removing an abscess near the ear of a turtle. Nye is one of the premier exotic animal veterinarians in America.



• Business Briefs
• Former Book Nook gets new look
• Farmers may reap benefits from flood woes

Devoted geocachers never stop searching
Tucked into tree branches, cracks in walls - even right under your own nose - are hidden hundreds of thousands of caches all over the world. Finding them is the quest of "geocachers" who use a handheld GPS and their own sleuthing skills to scout out the concealed containers and log their discoveries online.



• Five things to know
• How can casino column help a player out?
• Culture Calendar
• Night Life

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