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Years after he ‘wrapped up that dream and was going to focus on real life,’ former Homewood cop comes home as a featured wrestler on ‘Monday Night Raw’

August 3, 2021 at 1:54 p.m.

Chicago's Mustafa Ali is excited to be wrestling in front of live crowds again. After more than a year of performing for virtual fans, WWE's professional wrestlers are on the...

Carl Vogel, director of communications for the Forest Preserves of Cook County, shows some of the new amenities at Sand Ridge Nature Center to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

Cook County unveils $1.6 million in upgrades to Sand Ridge Nature Center

August 1, 2021 at 8:38 a.m.

The land upon which the Sand Ridge Nature Center rests has changed tremendously over the years. Once under the waters of an ancient lake, the land became the ancestral homeland...

Actors Payton Holzhauser, from left, Aubrey Gordon and Billy Glynn portray Fiona, Donkey and Shrek, respectively, in a production for Outer Limits Theatre.

That’s a wrap: Lockport teen stages last play with Outer Limits Theatre, created to help others

July 30, 2021 at 11:23 a.m.

When Brooke Ferricks was just 12, a friend was diagnosed with cancer. So she tapped into her passion for theater, gathered a dozen friends and staged a shortened version of...

For 13 years, a Palos Park woman did not know she had an institutionalized sister. After reconnecting, she became both guardian and advocate.

July 28, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.

Until she was 13 years old, Palos Park's Katherine Hamann did not know she had a sister. It took her 13 more years before the two finally met. Today, she...

One night only: Beverly Arts Center to screen film teens created about dance studio

July 27, 2021 at 5:31 p.m.

As the COVID-19 pandemic started to take its toll on Illinois, Beverly's Avery Kelley felt like she'd lost a step — literally. When she was 3 years old, Kelley enrolled...

Sonja Marshall stands with her granddaughter, Chloe Jones, 5, as they view the newly unveiled headstone for Eugene Williams at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island.

Headstone unveiled in Blue Island’s Lincoln Cemetery shares story of teen whose killing sparked 1919 Chicago race riot

July 25, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

More than 100 years after his killing, which sparked the 1919 Chicago race riot, Eugene Williams' grave site in Blue Island finally has a marker. A headstone was unveiled Saturday...

A grieving mother is sharing the story of her son’s life and death on the big screen in effort to raise awareness of teen depression, suicide

July 21, 2021 at 11:49 a.m.

An Olympia Fields mother has turned her teenage son's suicide into a story she hopes will prompt families to have difficult discussions and check in regularly on their children's mental...

Online fundraiser features rare stouts, aged bourbons, but New Lenox-based charity hopes new raffle platform is a winner for everyone

July 16, 2021 at 12:50 p.m.

A new raffle platform recently launched online with the aim of supporting a local food bank by enticing donors through coveted bottles of beer, bourbon and mead. The hope of...

Evil Horse Brewing Co. general manager Amy Kamp and artist Tommy Zarlengo, of Chicago Heights, stand near one of his pieces inside the new Liccar-Corral Gallery. The gallery, in the space above Evil Horse on 1336 Main St., is part of the Crete Art Trail sponsored by the brewery.

A brewery’s success along the Dixie Highway leads to a passport to art as galleries unite to form Crete Art Trail

July 15, 2021 at 12:31 p.m.

After ice dams on the roof of the Seggebruch Building in downtown Crete damaged an area upstairs from Evil Horse Brewing Co., Amy Kamp, part of a group of investors...

Cook County and forest preserve officials gather June 28 with participants in the Forest Preserve Experience at Sweet Woods preserve between Glenwood and Thornton.

Along with a paycheck, forest preserves program opens up nature ‘to young folks who oftentimes won’t have access to these experiences’

July 19, 2021 at 10:14 a.m.

Roughly 150 youths are getting an education in conservation this summer, and a paycheck to go with it. Much of their work is in Cook County forest preserves in the...

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