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The Dyer Switch Band, which has been inducted into the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame, performs in 2019 at the Frankfort Bluegrass Festival. The festival returns for its 11th edition this weekend in downtown Frankfort.

Around the Southland: Bluegrass, baseball and garden tours and more highlight busy week

July 6, 2023 at 4:07 p.m.

Bluegrass extravaganza this weekend in Frankfort The 11th Annual Frankfort Bluegrass Festival features two days of free string music from some of the best performers in the genre July 8...

People pause for a photo in front of an art installation Saturday at the Eco-Fest Block Party on Chicago's Southeast Side. Organized for the first time, the event featured art including two new murals and was put together by the Southeast Environmental Task Force.

Around the Southland: Eco-Fest successful in Hegewisch, fishing event breaks record in Homer Glen, and more

June 21, 2023 at 12:45 p.m.

Eco-Fest in Hegewisch deemed a success An event planned to "embody the spirit of rejuvenation and learning" in Southeast Side neighborhoods while highlighting environmental progress and triumphs was deemed successful,...

Illinois 1 begins at a boat ramp in Cave-In-Rock for a car ferry that is jointly subsidized by Illinois and Kentucky.

Landmarks: Summer road trips don’t have to be expansive or expensive, especially if there’s a good route

March 12, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

Our 25th wedding anniversary was supposed to be marked with a gathering of friends and family, but like everyone else with grand plans during the summer of 2020, we had...

Comedians, from left, Tim Cavanagh, Ed Kerfin and Bill Gorgo took to the stage for Merriment for Mercy, which raised more than $10,000 for Mercy Circle retirement community in Chicago.

Around the Southland: Comedy raises cash, Summerfest in Dolton helps unhoused people, and more

June 16, 2023 at 11:08 a.m.

Comedians help raise $10K for Mercy Circle A comedy fundraiser brought in more than $10,000 for Mercy Circle in Chicago's West Beverly neighborhood. Comedians Tim Cavanagh, Ed Kerfin and Bill...

Daniel Lotton works in this undated photo of Lotton Art Glass Gallery & Studio in Crete provided by the Chicago Southland Convention and Visitors Bureau. The art studio was declared one of the area's "Hidden Gems" in the bureau's new Visitors Guide.

Landmarks: Hidden gems are everywhere, and all it takes to find them is a sense of adventure

June 10, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

"Let's go to Misty Mountain," my friend said. I'd never been but was intrigued, and the others in our group seemed enthusiastic. So we went. It was in Glenwood. This...

A group learns about a Richard Haas mural depicting the Dixie Highway during a walking tour given by author Kristine Condon on a pleasant Sunday morning in July in downtown Homewood. Condon will lead another tour this summer.

Around the Southland: Haas murals highlight Homewood tour, work underway on Stagg expansion, and more

June 9, 2023 at 2:03 p.m.

Walking tour to highlight Homewood's Haas murals A walking tour sponsored by the Flossmoor Public Library of Homewood's collection of large murals by artist Richard Haas will benefit an effort...

Students from Rich Township High School are traveling in Europe with a group of high school students from Alaska this month in what a district news release called a 10-day "trip of a lifetime."

Around the Southland: Cemetery visit honors veterans, students travel to Europe, and more

June 1, 2023 at 5:48 p.m.

Group honors veterans at St. Benedict Cemetery Players, coaches and family members of the St Walter-St. Benedict School sports teams and Cub Scouts from Tinley Park joined members of American...

Patrick Van Nevel, honorary consul of the Kingdom of Belgium, talks about the shared history between the Illinois National Guard and Belgium during a May 6 ceremony in Springfield commemorating the 78th anniversary of the World War II rescue of King Leopold III by soldiers from the Illinois Army National Guard's 106th Cavalry Regiment.

Landmarks: Illinois National Guard celebrates its 300th birthday, anniversary of rescuing Belgian king from Nazis

May 28, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.

It took a few years, but Adriana Schroeder dug deep and finally came up with the birth date for the Illinois National Guard. It turned out to be nearly a...

Orland Park teachers Angeline Ogean and Ashley Bobak received grants last week that will be used to fund STEM learning in their classrooms.

Around the Southland: Kennedy School grads ready for new challenge, state superintendent visits Rich Township, and more

May 26, 2023 at 11:38 a.m.

Kennedy School celebrates Class of 2023 More than a dozen students graduated from the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. School for Exceptional Children on May 23 in Tinley Park, where...

The Alpine train depot in an undated photo. The town of Alpine Heights was platted around the station in the 1890s but never took off. In 1912, it burned down and the train depot was demolished in the 1940s.

Landmarks: Ghosts of suburban towns remain on area maps well into the internet age

May 20, 2023 at 7:32 a.m.

The ghost towns of suburban Chicago aren't identifiable by tumbleweeds or ramshackle clapboard storefronts, but their names maintain a haunting presence on modern maps. Perhaps kept alive by the unrealized...

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