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Kim Carter, of Mokena, picks up litter Sunday, Sept. 25, along the roadway into Hickory Creek Preserve's LaPorte Road Access as part of a volunteer effort observing National Public Lands Day.

Public Lands Day events draw scores of volunteers, fun seekers to Southland preserves

September 30, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Conservation and enjoyment — those are the two things National Public Lands Day seeks to promote at outdoor spaces annually on the fourth Saturday of September. And Will and Cook...

Homewood’s oldest resident is about to turn 108, and the village is collecting birthday cards to help her celebrate

September 20, 2022 at 2:26 p.m.

Despite approaching 108 years on this earth, Homewood's Mary Cantway said she does not have any secrets to longevity. She has remained active throughout her life, and that has surely...

The Tinley Park Helistop near the village's Fire Department training tower along 183rd Street is pictured Thursday, Sept. 8. From Sept. 14 to 30, helicopter flights from Tinley Park are planned to simulate a service a Brazilian company hopes to establish, eventually using electric flying vehicles called eVTOL.

Helicopter ‘simulations’ in Tinley Park could pave way for electric flying vehicles, 15-minute air commute

September 12, 2022 at 11:53 a.m.

People going from Tinley Park to Chicago soon may not need roads to get there if a company's vision for a flying transit option becomes a reality. For now, the...

Tall Grass Art Fair draws artists from as far away as Arizona, expected to bring thousands to Park Forest

September 8, 2022 at 11:45 a.m.

When Jean Lewis lived in Park Forest, she would attend the Tall Grass Arts Association's art fair every summer. An art teacher at the time, Lewis thought about how great...

Oak Lawn teachers took podium at C2E2 to urge educators to bring pop culture into the classroom

September 7, 2022 at 2:28 p.m.

In the waning weeks of summer break, four Oak Lawn Community High School teachers headed to McCormick Place for the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, not only as fans, but...

Credit cards, guns among ‘regular’ finds as IDOT workers pick tons of highway trash

August 26, 2022 at 1:35 p.m.

As an operations supervisor for the Illinois Department of Transportation Bishop Ford Maintenance Yard, Kyara Cowan hears one particular quip regularly among his crews while collecting litter along the side...

Erik Hoffer, executive director of the Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory
Board, uncaps a sprinkler head to explain how the system works during an open house at a home being built by Beecher fire Chief Joseph Falaschetti Jr.

Beecher fire chief touts home fire sprinklers by showing off system he’s building into his new house

August 25, 2022 at 4:37 p.m.

Many people think they have an idea of how fire sprinklers work because of how the systems have been portrayed in movies and television shows. Someone pulls the fire alarm,...

Oak Forest High School senior Zachary Clark and Advanced Placement studio art teacher Dan Chambers discuss painting technique Tuesday while priming the concrete base of the Nike Hercules missile display on Central Avenue.

Prime time: High school seniors help paint base of Oak Forest’s iconic missile on Central Avenue

August 17, 2022 at 10:28 a.m.

The Nike Hercules missile in front of the Oak Forest Park District building is primed and ready — for a new coat of paint. More specifically, the concrete base that...

Cyclists travel on a portion of the Old Plank Road Trail through Frankfort. A portions of the trail, which turned 25 years old this year and links communities such as New Lenox, Frankfort, Matteson, Richton Park, Park Forest and Chicago Heights, will be repaved staring in September.

As it turns 25, Old Plank Road Trail set to get a facelift

August 13, 2022 at 6:04 a.m.

As the Forest Preserve District of Will County is looking back to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of Old Plank Road Trail's opening, it is also looking to the future, with...

Gincy Hartin, right, who organized the Teen Showcase for Oak Lawn's Sunday Concerts on the Green, interviews musician Jacie Strelow before she closes the show last week.

Oak Lawn’s Teen Showcase lets young musicians show off for their neighbors

August 8, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

"Like Nirvana, but worse." That is how Joey Fraider, of Chicago Ridge jokingly described his band Red Adrenaline before taking the stage for a Teen Showcase recently at Oak Lawn's...

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