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Around the Southland: Group donates $8K to dialysis program, new director for South Holland chorale, and more

August 19, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Will County group gives $8K to Silver Cross program The Will County Union of King's Daughters and Sons recently gave the Silver Cross Foundation $8,000 to support the hospital's acute...

The entrance to the old Crete Congregational Church building in Crete still shows a sign for The Marketplace antiques store. The 1853 building was recently acquired by the Crete Area Historical Society, which plans to turn it into a museum.

Landmarks: Crete historians finally have a home for 186 years of stories in buildings where many of them happened

August 14, 2022 at 12:09 p.m.

As residents of Crete prepared to celebrate their town's 150th year in 1986, they began a concerted fundraising effort for a museum to house a century and a half's worth...

Around the Southland: Shopping spree for Matteson schools, Beatles exhibit coming to Tinley, and more

August 11, 2022 at 2:19 p.m.

Group donates school supplies to Matteson students Matteson school administrators steered shopping carts overflowing with school supplies around a south suburban Walmart Saturday morning thanks to a donation from the...

Around the Southland: Forest preserve job program graduates, band camp kicks off, Brewfest returns, and more

August 4, 2022 at 5:36 p.m.

Cook County Forest Preserves job program graduates 99 A summer of learning, outdoor exploration and service culminated this morning in a graduation ceremony for 99 Cook County youth at Wampum...

Landmarks: A photo from Mackinac Island opens a window on a short life well-lived

July 31, 2022 at 11:42 a.m.

My circle in grade school was small and decidedly unpopular. Yet over the last decade and a half as the age of social media dawned and then grew to taint...

Around the Southland: Paddlers explore Underground Railroad history, Blue Island train station upgrade, and more

July 29, 2022 at 12:12 p.m.

A group of paddling enthusiasts joined area history fans for a paddling outing recently on the Little Calumet River in an event sponsored by the Little Calumet River Underground Railroad...

Steph Goehring, an aquarist from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, releases a baby Blanding's turtle into a marsh last week as part of an effort to boost the endangered species population in Cook County.

Landmarks: An endangered turtle with an ‘everlasting smile’ gets a boost in one of its few remaining homes in Cook County

July 25, 2022 at 2:42 p.m.

A group gathered Wednesday morning at a Southland nature spot to culminate a yearlong project that brought together representatives from Cook and DuPage counties, the Shedd Aquarium, and state and...

Around the Southland: Family reunited with lost class ring, Touch a truck in Matteson, and more

July 22, 2022 at 12:20 p.m.

Lost class ring returned to daughter of Evergreen Park alum An Evergreen Park Community High School class ring has been reunited with the family of its owner about 45 years...

Around the Southland: Educator inducted into Illinois Black Hall of Fame, new principals at Hillcrest, St. Germaine, and more

July 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

Davis one of 8 inducted into the Illinois Black Hall of Fame Blondean Y. Davis, superintendent of Matteson School District 162 and founder and CEO of Southland College Prep Charter...

A 1951 citation from the Illinois Department of Conservation extols the merits of Art Senior, who helped establish Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve in Homewood. He also helped acquire a former prisoner of war barracks to be the preserve's clubhouse, and it now bears his name.

Landmarks: German POWs created a lasting monument to our flag near Thornton, and their barracks remain a focus of America’s can-do spirit

July 5, 2022 at 2:49 p.m.

A bus full of local history enthusiasts was trundling down Cottage Grove Avenue a bit north of Glenwood about 6 years ago when one of the passengers asked the driver...

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