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North Riverside Fireworks

I’ll be near North Riverside today celebrating the 4th and was curious if anyone has gone to the fireworks in North Riverside? If it starts pouring tonight, I won’t be trapped at a fest or Navy Pier and can get home quickly.

Where is the best viewing area to set up chairs? Is there parking over there by the “Commons”? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Logix_interface — 1 day ago
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playGrades (yelp for kids activities, created by Naperville guy) updates & expansion. Pretty good project.

I posted here when I launched playGrades like 2.5 months ago. Got some great feedback (heres that post).

The site has some HUGE updates since then (plus I'm at >500 reviews now, which I think is cool)...

  • Expansion across Chicago suburbs
  • upvote/downvote system
  • Organizations can "claim" their pages and get updates when reviews are submitted
  • Mapping teams/organizations across the suburbs (searching for travel baseball teams nearby? never been easier).

For Naperville parents....This is a bit of self promotion sure. But I think this app is an even more useful / powerful tool than it was when I first posted about it a while ago, so thought I'd share it again. Hope thats ok!

Check it out, leave a review (takes 1 min) for whatever team / activitiy / summer camp your kid loves / hates, let me know what you think!

u/tmiller_naperville — 4 days ago
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World Cup Watch?

Where are folks watching World Cup matches near OP? Trying for a place with good atmosphere, beers and kids are welcome. We watched at a soccer forward pub out of state last weekend. The atmosphere was amazing and we all had a great time. Everything we have seen so far is either downtown or much further out in the burbs.

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u/Mr_Fooz — 9 days ago