Carol Flynn

The main entrance of the Chicago International Charter School, formerly the Academy of Our Lady, retains a Blessed Mother statue over the door. The school, also known as the Longwood Academy, is resuming its annual reunions after a two-year pandemic hiatus.

Legacy of Academy of Our Lady lives on in active Alumnae Association as reunions resume

September 23, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The final classes at Academy of Our Lady, a Catholic girls' high school at 95th Street and Throop Avenue in Chicago, were in 1999, but the school's legacy lives on...

From left, Will Lenihan, Nick Karahalios, Riley Balikian and Kisa Mwakanyamale of the Illinois State Geological Survey pause while surveying Mount Greenwood Cemetery late last year using ground penetrating radar. They survey turned up several surprises, researchers said.

Underground mapping project offers new info, and a few surprises, about area’s deep past

July 28, 2022 at 2:53 p.m.

Most of the time, people are busy enough with everyday life aboveground to give much thought to what goes on below the earth's surface. But the area's underground features influence...

Beverly artist created new string instruments from an abandoned piano, and he’s looking for musicians to try them out

May 19, 2022 at 12:20 p.m.

The music has been described as haunting and zen-like. It can be quiet and reflective to go along with yoga. Other times, it can be dramatic enough to be the...

Blue Island arts group pairs craft beers with crafters Saturday for Mai Fest in Olde Western Avenue Historic District

April 27, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

When scores of vendors showcase their wares Saturday in Blue Island, it will mark the city "coming back to life after the pandemic," according to Joe Leamanczyk, head of the...

A Southland school meets in a Beverly pub to keep the spoken traditions of Ireland alive, making sure it’s ‘not a dead language’

March 29, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

St. Patrick's Day may have come and gone, but that doesn't mean Irish culture is shelved here for the rest of the year. The traditions and culture of the Auld...

A K-9 leprechaun walks with the Mount Greenwood Chamber of Commerce float Sunday, March 12, 2017 during the 39th Annual South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade on Western Avenue between 103rd and 115th streets. After a two year hiatus, the parade is scheduled to return Sunday.

‘March just hasn’t been the same’: South Side Irish Parade returns after 2-year hiatus with community celebration in Beverly

March 10, 2022 at 12:14 p.m.

There's an old saying that "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day." The Beverly/Morgan Park community will offer a head start on that sentiment on Sunday. The South Side Irish...

Residents pitch in to find survivors after the Bath, Mich., Consolidated School was dynamited by school board member Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927. In this community about 10 miles northeast of Lansing, a historical marker marks the site where 38 students and five adults died in the explosion. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, File)

Beverly resident’s chronicle of a 1920s mass murder forges a bond between author and a Michigan town: ‘It’s become part of who I am’

March 4, 2022 at 11:54 a.m.

The most horrendous crimes are amplified even further when they occur in gentle, peaceful settings and the victims are the most vulnerable members of society. School mass murders immediately come...

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