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Dad’s Place: cozy tavern, home cooking

November 30, 1989

If you're seriously hungry, the place to stop at is Dad's Place, 306 W. State St. in Geneva. It's a dark but cozy homestyle restaurant and tavern where you can grab a booth and some good food, too. The half-pound hamburgers are the favorite food of the...

Store specializes in jewelry, glass

November 30, 1989

Grunwald Antiques has been serving the Geneva area since 1962. Its high quality specialties are estate jewelry, (especially silver), enamels and glass products. Marge Shepard has been a Grunwald employee for 17 years and said that Geneva has kept the...

Fine Italian cuisine

November 30, 1989

After visiting the numerous shops Geneva has to offer, you most likely will have worked up quite an appetite. If so, your next stop should be the Ristorante Chianti, at 207 S. Third St. Italian and Cajun-Italian entrees make up the menu at this restaurant...

Hearings prove ineffective

November 30, 1989

The five hearings throughout Illinois to evaluate the effectiveness and garnish support or criticism for the state's higher education governing boards has concluded. However, it is not the time for those truly concerned about education to be optimistic....

Unfair comment

November 30, 1989

The editorial, "Representation not ‘OK'," which in essence states that Dave Murphy is unqualified to be appointed to the Board of Regents because he has been a Community College Trustee for McHenry Community College, challenges me to respond. 1. I am...

Shop and eat at the Wilson’s

November 30, 1989

If you're short on time and can't go to separate places for eating and browsing, try the Wilson House, 327 Franklin St. in Geneva, where you'll find everything under one roof. If you enter on the ground floor you'll find yourself in Barrels "N" Bins shop,...

‘Old Piano Factory’ invites shoppers, tourists to browse

November 30, 1989

The Factory Outlet Mall is affectionately known as the the "Old Piano Factory" for good reason. The building, located at 410 South 1st St. in St. Charles, actually served as the Cable Piano Factory from 1901 until 1938. The rugged structure once employed...

Based on fears

November 30, 1989

I am writing in response to James R. Hart's letter, Nov. 28, titled "Opinion off base." I seem to sense a sort of sickness or ignorance in this letter. Yet once again, I will try to explain to you why you don't understand. American society is, and has...

Give to hungry

November 29, 1989

I don't belong to Freedom Now, nor do I wear the round spectacles. The fact of the matter is helping the hungry has nothing to do with being a campus radical—it has to do with understanding. A couple of decades ago, man thought slavery was an economic...

U.S. should take action now

November 29, 1989

Things are changing so rapidly in Eastern Europe that the majority of the world is a bit shocked. Who would have guessed just last year that Communist countries such as Poland, Hungary and Czechoslavakia would be adopting major changes in their systems....

Follow guidelines when getting car repairs

November 29, 1989

Speaking from the bar Experiencing a few extra "minor" problems with your vehicle lately? For example, does Ole Beater start only on calendar days that are prime numbers? Are you starting to keep track of miles per quart rather than miles per gallon?...

Funds fight cancer

November 29, 1989

The Beta Alpha Psi Gamma Pi raised $2,070 for the fight against cancer Walk-A-Thon on Oct. 14. There were 45 students, faculty and professional accountants who took part in the third annual event. Wreath-making workshop The DeKalb County Cooperative Extension...

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