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A patron checks a price sheet while viewing photographs exhibited at Gallery Seven in Lockport. Prices for the matted and framed works range from $50 to $1,000.

Lockport’s Gallery Seven serves as matchmaker between artists, viewers

June 9, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.

The president of Gallery Seven, Lockport's fine art gallery, acknowledges photographers commonly post their images online, but, he said, that's no substitute for traditional presentations. Speaking last weekend at the...

Chavon Smith and sons Isaiah and Tobias relax in their newly furnished apartment in Matteson earlier this month.

‘They finally have something to come home to’: Volunteers turn living spaces of recently homeless into homes

May 31, 2019 at 2:43 p.m.

Sitting in her fully furnished two-bedroom flat in Matteson that had been almost empty only a couple of hours before, Chavon Smith tried to describe what she had just experienced....

Larry McClellan discusses the Underground Railroad with Manteno resident Susan Pralle, one of the more than 50 people who attended his presentation recently at a Monee Historical Society meeting.

Historian highlights role of about 40 Southland properties in Underground Railroad path to freedom

May 24, 2019 at 9:03 p.m.

Larry McClellan is a bit of a name dropper, at least when he's talking about Underground-Railroad conductors in southern Cook and Will counties. There's Ed and Harriet Genzler, John and...

Homewood-Flossmoor juniors, from left, Liam Hughes, Jacob 'Jake" Nye and Nicholas 'Nick' Mayden prepare to operate a minimill, which can be used to control complex cutting and shaping machinery. The trio topped a recent Illinois SkillsUSA Manufacturing Technology competition.

From manufacturing to interior design, Southland students show off their technical skills at state level

May 22, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

Some area high school and community college students are learning a new set of ABCs – with "A" standing for additive manufacturing, Adobe Photoshop and advertising; "B" for (commercial) baking...

Metra train fatally hits pedestrian in New Lenox

May 15, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

The Rock Island District line was halted after a train fatally hit a pedestrian Wednesday in New Lenox, Metra officials said. The incident happened at 8:21 a.m. on tracks near...

Win for Lincoln-Way welding teacher means $30K in new equipment for trades program at his school

May 22, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

Lincoln-Way Central High School is receiving a welding-related prize package worth more than $30,000 thanks to a national contest that effectively declared instructor Daymon Gast the top welding mentor in...

Racing announcer Wayne L. Adams and Dolton Mayor Riley Rogers display a Cook County board proclamation honoring him on his 100th birthday.

Voice of Raceway Park marks 100th birthday with intersection naming ceremony

May 22, 2019 at 12:13 a.m.

Wayne L. Adams Sr. marked his 100th birthday Monday with family, friends, neighbors and a group of reporters at a Dolton intersection that now bears his name. But Adams, the...

Area students set to join volunteers of all ages Thursday for United Way’s April Food Day effort

May 22, 2019 at 12:13 a.m.

Oak Forest High School sophomore Mackenzie Griffin didn't really know what to expect last year when she went to work at the United Way of Metro Chicago's annual food drive....

Ethnographer Arthur P. Bourgeois offers sketches of how Marie Bailly might have looked during a presentation to the Monee Historical Society in March.

Legendary Native American ‘princess’ never lived in Southland, but she did prevent Monee from being called Herbertville

May 22, 2019 at 12:10 a.m.

The legend of Princess Monee is part of the Congressional Record, in remarks entered in 2000 by U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller of Illinois as he honored the 125th anniversary of...

Three years later, fellow officers, community members making sure injured Park Forest officer knows he’s not forgotten

May 22, 2019 at 12:03 a.m.

Like many Southland cops, Crete police officers wear special gel bracelets honoring a Park Forest police officer critically wounded in the line of duty on March 19, 2016. But the...

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