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Around the Southland: Homer Glen residents collect 700 pounds of pop tabs for McDonald House, and more

July 1, 2022 at 11:30 a.m.

Homer Glen residents collected about 708 pounds of pop tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House in the village's second Pop Tab Challenge. The Ronald McDonald House allows parents...

Fisherman untangle Asian carp from nets in an inlet of the Illinois River near Starved Rock in 2018. The state has launched a renaming effort for the fish in an effort to increase demand for the fish as food.

Landmarks: ‘Copi’ rebrand hopes to harness our tendency to overfish to solve an invasive problem

June 27, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

Back in the halcyon summer days of the early 1990s, I'd gather with whichever of my buddies who were around, secure a vehicle equipped with enough gasoline and head east...

Around the Southland: Memorial planned for Evergreen Park coach, new superintendent in District 140, and more

June 24, 2022 at 12:43 p.m.

Memorial planned for Evergreen Park teacher and coach The family and friends of John George, a longtime teacher and coach at Evergreen Park Community High School, are planning a memorial...

Around the Southland: Eisenhower, Shepard get new leaders, native plant sale in Will County, and more

June 16, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

New principals at Eisenhower, Shepard high schools The District 218 Board of Education unanimously approved hiring two new administrators at its high schools. Benjamin Blakeley will become the new principal...

A sign signals a resident's support in 2014 for the historic Pullman neighborhood of Chicago to be included in the U.S. National Park system. The neighborhood's ornate brick homes were built in the 1800s by industrialist George Pullman, as a blue-collar utopia to house workers from his sleeping-railcar factory. President Barack Obama in 2016 designated three new national monuments for protection as historic or ecologically significant sites, including the Pullman neighborhood in Chicago where African American railroad workers won a historic labor agreement.

Landmarks: A North Sider who embraced life in Pullman becomes national monument’s newest park ranger

June 7, 2022 at 10:55 a.m.

Lisa Burback lived in a Chicago Bungalow growing up on Chicago's North Side, learning over those formative years it was more than just a roof over her head. "My dad...

Around the Southland: Veterans Memorial unveiled in Lynwood, Palos students help bees, garden walk in Crete, and more

June 2, 2022 at 5:33 p.m.

More than 200 residents joined regional officials as a new Veterans Memorial was unveiled in Lynwood on Memorial Day at Liberty Memorial Park, 3107 Glenwood Dyer Road. "More than ever,...

Elmo Younger, then 83 ,of Morris, stands in 2005 next to the base of the monument that held a bronze statue that paid tribute to the workers killed in an explosion at the Joliet Arsenal in 1942. The statue was near the entrance to the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. Younger will speak at a rededication for the statue Saturday in its new home in Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.

Landmarks: Monument to Will County’s civilian casualties of World War II heading home to site of 1942 explosion

May 29, 2022 at 1:15 p.m.

A crowd will gather Saturday at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County around a bronze statue depicting a 1940s workman wearing a hard hat and carrying a lunchbox. Plainly...

Around the Southland: Crisis Center lauded by Tinley Chamber, St. Coletta’s reaches milestone, and more

May 26, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

Crisis Center honored as Outstanding Chamber Business The Tinley Park Chamber of Commerce has honored the Crisis Center for South Suburbia with its Outstanding Chamber Business Award. The local nonprofit...

Oak Lawn Lake was created when a developer in the 1890s wanted to create a subdivision on swampy land and was declared a village landmark a century later.

Landmarks: A little lake in Oak Lawn helped set the scene for a bustling village

May 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The tiny hamlet of South Mount Forest shows up on early 20th Century maps as little more than an eight-block subdivision halfway between Willow Springs and 95th Street, which already...

Around the Southland: Eisenhower singers complete triumphant spring with win at Six Flags, centenarian nurse honored in Cal City, and more

May 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Eisenhower show choir takes first at Music in the Parks Express, the show choir from Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, won Best Show Choir at the Six Flags Music...

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