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1 day ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
Art overall is lovely, but you gotta pause every now and then for some masterpieces.
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1 week ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Have you ever seen one of those dramatic "is anyone a doctor??" moments while you're traveling? I'm not sure how often they really happen on planes but movies and shows make it look frequent. And it really did happen for one young lady in Disney World. Florida Gov.
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1 week ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
Do you hear the sound of water bottles sliding all over your floorboards? I'll be the first to admit: I'm terrible about this. My back floorboards have more plastic bottles sliding around than I care to disclose. Now, with it being roasty-toasty summer, hopefully it would occur to you not to drink that drink since it's hot, but what else are you to do if you're thirsty and there's nothing else close by? Bottled Water Sales Are Set To SurgeFirst Risk: YouBacteria flourishes in hot weather.
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1 week ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
Not the Cheerios. Let's be real: we never outgrow cereal. Sometimes a perfect dinner is just a bowl of cereal. Occasionally, I'll go on a kick with cereal (including certain flavors of Cheerios) but it looks like a wrench is about to be thrown into that. Cereal lovers are mourning the sudden loss of Cheerios flavors, in favor of "new innovations this year" as General Mills told NBC Chicago.
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1 week ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
This is what AI was intended to be used for, right? I don't much use ChatGPT except...to roast. ChatGPT trends can be fun, like when everyone asked it to make us into action figures or when we all asked it to roast our Instagrams. Now, we put another target into ChatGPT's roasts: QCA towns. Our hometowns and where we live are one of those things that we can snark on and complain about but when non-residents put them down, we'll snap back.
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1 week ago | 
koel.com | Sarah Stringer
Don't try to stuff everything down the garbage disposal. With all of the summer cookouts and dinner parties, it can be easy to just dump leftover food into the garbage disposal. It makes cleanup so much easier. Garbage disposals can also be finicky little machines that break or get gross backups if you shove stuff into it that it doesn't like. And they're super common for our sinks to have.
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1 week ago | 
koel.com | Sarah Stringer
Names say a lot about the firework, really. Normally, I'm the one in charge of picking out fireworks for my circle's 4th festivities. I'm not alone in that job either: American Pyrotechnics Association stats show that about 250 million pounds of consumer fireworks are set off in the good ol' U.S. of A every year. "Display fireworks" (the ones cities and municipalities use for actual shows) is an additional 25 million pounds.
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1 week ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
Hi I'm poor. If you think you're already budgeting to eat out every once in a while, you would have to skip a few car payments to eat at one place in Illinois. Love Food found the most expensive restaurants in every state for 2025. The list includes fancy steakhouses, breezy seaside eateries, and everything in between. It was based on a restaurant's priciest main course or tasting menu, not places just one very expensive dish.
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1 week ago | 
koel.com | Sarah Stringer
Problems, summer edition. You don't have permission to judge your neighbor's lawn if it looks brown and gross this summer. Des Moines Register reports that in central Iowa, Central Iowa Water Works asked people in the Des Moines-area to cut back on lawn watering by 50%. And why? It's chemistry.
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2 weeks ago | 
b100quadcities.com | Sarah Stringer
In one of the more iconic moments, Pope Leo XIV changed up his dress code. America, the Midwest, and the Chicagoland area have been thoroughly proud to call the new pope, Pope Leo XIV, theirs. Love To Love It: The Most Midwest Social Media Reactions To Illinois' First PopePope Leo was initially cardinal Robert Prevost, known as 'Father Bob' to many Chicagoland Catholics. One argument that happened soon after he took over the papacy was:What Chicago baseball team does he cheer for?
