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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
• In Brief
• Family tree rooted in Wheaton history
• Art event to celebrate the finer things in life
• Athlete wanted 'to see his mom stress-free'
• Expansion of vets shelter gets initial OK
• Fair days ahead
• Sun Calendar
• Coyote sightings reported in Wheaton
• Sun Calendar
• Park District plans to survey residents on 'cool projects'
• Wheaton arts in spotlight
• History, heritage on parade in Wheaton
• In Brief
• Cenacle users lament loss of spiritual haven

• Going to trials
• EXTRA POINTS
• Three letters that spell heartbreak
• Sports collectibles avoid economic slump so far
• Invitation to an elite party
• Different reasons, same commitment
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

• Summer skin care, au natural
• Three men and a vision: How Wheaton came to be
• Local foodies blog on savory topics
• The freedom to grill as we please

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.



• College students should study finances
• Business Briefs
• Former Book Nook gets new look
• Farmers may reap benefits from flood woes

Five things to know
DuPage County Fair: Come to the Fairgrounds, off Manchester Road east of County Farm Road in Wheaton through July 27. Headliners include Little Big Town, Steven Curtis Chapman and Jars of Clay, Corbin Bleu of "High School Musical," a Pink Floyd laser light show and demolition derby. Visit www.dupagecountyfair.org.

• Five things to know
• How can casino column help a player out?
• Culture Calendar
• Night Life
• Don't be afraid to give the craps table a try or 2
• 5 Things to Do

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