Saturday, May 18, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. If “Game of Thrones” had been conceived by Wayne Gretsky, the seat of the Seven Kingdoms might look something like this chair, going for $350 out of Burr Ridge. The frame is almost entirely made of hockey sticks, with pucks for the base. A perfect chair from which to cheer on the Blackhawks (go Hawks!) This unorthodox coffee table from a Darien seller might look misshapen, but it’s carved from a single California redwood and is seriously huge—status symbol extraordinaire. (For some reason, in…
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The 50-foot-wide electromagnet will travel 3,200 miles by boat and barge this summer to be part of a new experiment that will study particle physics.
A particle storage ring spanning 50 feet in diameter will be travelling through Darien and Woodridge this summer during a 3,200-mile journey from New York to Illinois. The giant electromagnet is headed to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, just outside Batavia, where it will be used in an experiment called Muon g-2, and will study the properties of muons, tiny subatomic particles that exist for only 2.2 millionths of a second. The ring, made of steel and aluminum, is part of a machine built at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory in the 1990s. Although most of the machine can be disassembled and brought to Fermilab in trucks, the massive electromagnet must be transported in one piece, and cannot tilt or twist more than a few …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. Oh, wow, it’s like a look directly into Andy Warhol’s brain! Someone in Downers Grove is selling their entire Campbell’s Soup collectibles collection, over 40 pieces of various Campbell’s memorabilia, for $375. “I love my Campbell Soup, but am ready for a change!” the seller proclaims. To what, Progresso? Somewhere along the line, it became generally accepted that clowns are no longer funny and are now universally considered creepy. (Do we all blame J. W. Gacy for that one?) If so, this guy …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. Vroom! Vroom, putputputput, vroom! —oh, uh, hello there. I was just remembering being young enough to fit in a little toy airplane ride like this one going for $165 out of Downers Grove. Never spend quarters outside a supermarket anymore, just plug in the batteries! … Uh, do they still have those quarter rides outside supermarkets? I never see one anymore. What happened to those? America, [expletive] yeah! Comin’ in here, to save the—well, you know how it goes. This very, very patriotic queen…
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. Who’s a bigger Chicago Bears fan than the guy who keeps an actual Chicago bear? Okay, he’s not really an actual bear, but this fuzzy four-foot mount going for $250 out of Downers Grove might be the best Sunday game day buddy possible: he’s polite, spirited, good for celebratory (or mournful) hugs, and is guaranteed to never steal all the guacamole dip. Is your kid a “Cars” fan? Or perhaps just a cars fan? Well, this bed isn’t exactly Lightning McQueen, but I bet a lot of kids 2-8 years old …
Monday, April 22, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. This 1940’s go-cart racer was half-restored, but never finished, by a Lemont father and son. It looks boring now, but imagine it with an awesome Speed Racer paint job! Comes with chrome pipes and bumper, stainless-steel moldings and a kick-start engine “that runs good,” all for $500. Remote-controlled airplanes are all well and good, but why do they have to look like boring old planes? Why not, say, killer sharks? I can’t tell you why it was never opened, because 40 feet of range sounds like…
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The strike caused $25,000 of “heavy damage” to a home on the 1600 block of Fox Hill Place.
A lightning bolt unleashed in Thursday morning’s storm struck a Darien home shortly before 2:50 a.m., causing “heavy damage” to the roof and chimney and charring several walls, according to a Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District press release. The strike also tripped circuit breakers and caused a gas leak in the front yard of the house on the 1600 block of Fox Hill Place in Darien. Though smoke was reported, thermal imaging found no fire in the walls. No one was injured in the strike, or during any other Darien-Woodridge storm-related incidents on Thursday morning. (The Department responded to over a dozen storm-related incidents by mid-morning.) The initial damage estimates are $25,000 for the lightning strike. The Westmont, Tri-…
How crazy is it out there right now? Please show us! Upload your pictures of flooding from DuPage County towns here.
Note: when uploading photos/video, please include a caption with the town and street where they were taken. Thank you! By 7 a.m. Thursday, the National Weather Service in Romeoville had the total rainfall amount at 3.24 inches for the previous 24 hours. Then it rained some more. And it's not forecast to stop until Friday morning. What does the scene look like for you? Are there several feet of water outside your home (or, heaven forbid, inside it)? Stranded cars; flooded lawns and streets? If you’re lucky enough not to be too busy dealing with any emergencies right now (and we hope you are), we’d love to see what you see, and our readership likely would as well. If you have any great snapshots/photographs of the flooding around DuPage …
Monday, April 15, 2013
Check out some of the most interesting posts we found for Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont.
The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Lemont area. Note: Patch has no control over the status of these posts on Craigslist and how long they remain available. Scramble up one side of this epic slide, then send yourself careening down the slippery opposite slope. Repeat forever, and I think you have a pretty amazing day for a kid and all his/her friends. If this slide, just $250 from Downers Grove and complete with blower and wheeled storage container, doesn't make you the most popular house in the neighborhood on a hot summer's day, I don't know what will. Here's the deal. Be female. Meet this person in a public place near Downers Grove. Use their …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Submit your pictures of Darien scenes to be considered for our Pic of the Day! This week's snapshot comes from Cynthia McGann.
Little League baseball practices and games are starting up again, so for our first Pic of the Day to showcase Darien, we're going with this pic of the Cubs team. Not sure what age group, but we assume this is Darien and they look like motivated winners. So, yeah, go Cubs! Thanks to Cynthia McGann for submitting! Will you be next? Submitter: Cynthia McGann Caption: Let's Go Cubs! Hey, Darien shutterbugs! Want to have one of your snapshots featured as a Darien Pic of the Day? Submit them here!
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12:10 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
i have gotten two items from craigslist and very satisfied more ›