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03/12/12

What to Do This Weekend: Go Green in the Quad Cities

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day beyond Chicago city limits, consider the comparatively understated charms of the Quad Cities region of Rock Island and Moline (in Illinois) and Davenport and Bettendorf (in Iowa). Among the area’s weekend festivities...

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03/05/12

What to Do This Weekend: Beer and Ski in Harbor Springs, Michigan

If you want to enjoy a brew with a view this weekend, make for Northern Michigan, where a combination suds- and snow–themed festival awaits at the Boyne Highlands Resort in Harbor Springs...

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02/27/12

Where to Go This Weekend: Medora, Indiana

You’ll find a sweet deal in Medora, Indiana this weekend as the southernmost state in the U.S. maple belt celebrates the fine art of turning sap into syrup. Indiana is home to about a hundred or so maple syrup producers and Medora’s festival is billed as the first national event of its kind...

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02/20/12

Where to Go This Weekend: St. Ignace, Michigan

Go north this weekend and you’ll find an international competition of world-class wind riders hoping to set speed records in St. Ignace, Michigan, a gateway to the Upper Peninsula. Today through Sunday, the town hosts the World Ice and Snow Sailing Championships, billed as the only event in the world where wings, kites, and sails compete over snow and ice...

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02/13/12

What to Do This Weekend: Spot Eagles in Alton, Illinois

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! OK, actually, it’s just a bird. Well, perhaps not just a bird. February is prime eagle-watching time along the Mississippi, where thousands of the majestic creatures make their winter home...

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02/06/12

Where to Go This Weekend: Detroit, Michigan

Detroit has taken its share of hits over the years, but the metropolis only a bridge away from the Canadian border is finding creative ways to lure visitors, including a citywide fest this weekend that started as part of Super Bowl festivities seven years ago: The Motown Winter Blast (February 10-12) is expected to draw as many as 75,000 people to the event...

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01/30/12

What to Do This Weekend: Explore Leelanau Peninsula’s Wine Trail

Despite what the greeting card industry would have you believe, there’s no reason to wait for Valentine’s Day to indulge in a weekend of passion. This weekend (February 3 through 5), the Leelanau Peninsula in Northern Michigan hosts the Taste the Passion wine tour, at annual showcase for local vintages from the same parallel as the renowned wine growing regions of France’s Rhone Valley and Italy’s Piedmont region...

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01/23/12

What to Do This Weekend: Tackle Super Bowl in Indianapolis

Sick of hosting Super Bowl parties? Be a guest at one thrown by the city of Indianapolis. Super Bowl Village is a ten-day ‘round the clock tailgate party that starts this year on Friday, January 27 and runs through game day...

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01/16/12

Where to Go This Weekend: Houghton Lake, Michigan

Wussed out on the Polar Bear Club’s annual New Year’s Day plunge into Lake Michigan? You can still prove your cold-water mettle this weekend, although you’ve got to go north to do so. Head for Michigan’s Lake Houghton, and you’ll find yourself in the chilly epicenter of one of the Midwest’s largest winter festivals...

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01/10/12

What to Do This Weekend: Hunt for Antiques in Indiana and Ohio

More than 900 antiques dealers populate the swath along Route 40, which traverses Richmond, Indiana and continues into western Ohio. Thankfully, the Old National Road State Welcome Center has broken things down into a pair of easily navigable antiques trails...

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