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Longtime Flossmoor resident comes home to take charge at South Suburban Hospital

November 13, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Michelle Blakely was not always bound for hospital administration. The new president of Advocate Trinity and Advocate South Suburban Hospitals originally planned to don a white coat. "From the point...

Zachary Jeffries, an author of young adult novels, shows off some of his books during a recent National Novel Writing Month Pep Rally at the Evergreen Park Public Library.

Aspiring novelists gather in Evergreen Park for support as they take on NaNoWriMo challenge

November 13, 2022 at 10:39 a.m.

Writing can be a lonely, singular activity. But Evergreen Park-based author Zachary Jeffries knows as well as anyone the power a sense of community among writers can offer to keep...

Mural in Park Forest aims to bring attention to two missing women, generate new leads

November 3, 2022 at 9:48 a.m.

If Park Forest police Chief Paul Winfrey could change one thing about the new mural on Orchard Drive, it would be to add the words "no longer" before "missing." Police...

Todd Pals, president of Homewood Bat Co., holds one of his company's bats in front of a wall full of them. About 30 players used Homewood bats in Major League games this year, he said.

Homewood Bat Co. marks 7 years in the game — scoring with MLB players through personalized service

November 1, 2022 at 3:18 p.m.

Before Bobby Witt Jr. started at third base for the Kansas City Royals at just 21 years old, he was a Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year, one of...

Heather Van Zyl, an interpretive naturalist with Plum Creek Nature Center, gets a bonfire started during the Moonlight Masquerade, a night hike for adults offered for the first time Friday by the Forest Preserve District of Will County.

‘Kid fun without the kids’: New Moonlight Masquerade draws grownups to woods for Halloween games

October 27, 2022 at 3:05 p.m.

In the dark of night, 25 visitors to Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve in Crete Township took turns reaching into a bag and reacting to the variety of interesting but unseen...

Crosstown Exotics co-owner Colin Langenderfer shows off a hybrid of a bullsnake and rat snake named Larry to LJ and Norah Young, of Oak Forest, during the critter class at the Oak View Center.

Oak Lawn critter class gives children first-hand look at misunderstood creatures, nature

October 21, 2022 at 11:10 a.m.

As Norah and LJ Young waited inside the Oak View Center, their anticipation for Crosstown Exotics' critter class was building. The Oak Forest duo spoke in whispers about what creatures...

Southwest Community Concert Band to perform 40th anniversary concert in New Lenox

October 20, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

Forty years ago, Therese "Terry" Sundberg was out of college with a degree in music education and starting a family. A graduate of Richards High School in Oak Lawn, Sundberg...

Higher education veteran’s new role is to ‘move the needle’ on diversity at SXU

October 14, 2022 at 6:30 a.m.

After a quarter-century of working in higher education and having "run the whole circuit" from adjunct instructor to faculty member, dean to vice president of academic affairs, Orland Park's Natalie...

Anglers cast lines Wednesday at the pond in Centennial Park in Tinley Park. The Tinley Park-Park District annually stocks the pond with bluegill, crappie, catfish and other species it acquires from the Will-South Cook Soil and Water Conservation District.

Will-South Cook group’s fish sale stocks Southland ponds, offers ‘peace of mind’

October 8, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Catch a fish in a south suburban pond? There is at least a fair chance it came from the Will-South Cook Soil and Water Conservation District, which has been holding...

Once a track star at Eisenhower, ‘Disco Ric’ now making waves in the music industry

October 1, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

"Disco Ric" Wilson would love to tell people he dropped out of college to pursue music — especially now that he's been featured in a Rolling Stone advertising campaign and...

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