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Tinley Creek flows through Elizabeth Conkey Forest Preserve in Palos Heights, a site of archaeological excavations that recently was declared an Illinois Nature Preserve.

Landmarks: New Land and Water Reserve in Palos Park creates protective buffer between suburbia and nature

November 1, 2020 at 8:24 a.m.

"Watch the thorns," said Kristin Pink as she pushed a branch of a wild rose bush away from a narrow path through the brushy perimeter of a rundown homestead outside...

Brad Bettenhausen, president emeritus of the Tinley Park Historical Society, discusses the grave marker of Thomas Moss, who lived in the vicinity of the settlement known as Bachelor's Grove in the 1800s. The marker is now outside the historical society in Tinley Park.

Landmarks: Ghosts haunt the remains of abandoned Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, but they’re not the kind you’d suspect

October 25, 2020 at 12:59 p.m.

Nobody is buried under the large granite gravestone outside the Old Zion Lutheran Church in Tinley Park. Thomas W. Moss, who died in 1885, and his wife who died some...

Marty Puzon stands inside Puzon's Music in Lansing, which he took over from his father in 1983. The music store, which offered private lessons as well as instrument sales and repairs, closed last month after 65 years.

Landmarks: A longtime area music shop shuts down, but the song plays on for four generations of Puzons

October 18, 2020 at 5:08 p.m.

After 65 years, Puzon's Music would be closing up for the last time at the end of the day, and that Saturday afternoon friends and loved ones were stopping in...

Gourds grown by John Sailor and Randy Oyster weighing 243 (green) and 219 pounds took 2nd and 3rd place prizes at a pumpkin contest last weekend in Lemont sponsored by the Cook County Farm Bureau.

Landmarks: A first-time effort nets Homewood friends prize-winning pumpkins

October 11, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The depression-era work truck parked out front of the Homewood Farmers Market last weekend was emblazoned with the logo of the Civilian Conservation Corps. But while that symbol of Franklin...

Debra Williams, a community engagement specialist with the Nature Conservancy, stands in front of Paintbrush Prairie in Markham, a preserve she said presents an opportunity to connect nature and people to the benefit of both.

Landmarks: Prairies in Markham offer a glimpse into the distant past, and new opportunity to connect with community

October 6, 2020 at 11:38 a.m.

In the next few months, new banners are planned for City Hall in Markham staking claim to the title "Prairie Capital of the Prairie State." "There are five prairies here,...

Catherine O'Leary is buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago.

Landmarks: The cow didn’t start the fire, but the story of Mrs. O’Leary and Holy Family Church ring true today

October 4, 2020 at 4:20 p.m.

People here who entertain visitors by bringing them downtown often relate a tall tale about how Chicago's famous Water Tower is the only building that survived the Great Chicago Fire...

Yellowjackets congregate near their nest inside a shed in Steger several years ago. The flying bugs become more evident this time of year as they have more free time to search for the foods they love, such as sugary soda.

Landmarks: Those uninvited bugs showing up as we eat outside aren’t bees — they’re wasps, and at least they’ll soon be dead

September 20, 2020 at 10:40 a.m.

Self care during a pandemic puts added emphasis on enjoying the little things. This summer I've made sure to make a little time to sit outside and read rather than...

Landmarks: Once a year, local grower shares the ‘garlic nuttiness’ in Thorn Creek woods

September 6, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Judy Dolan Mendelson and her late husband, John, traveled in the early 1990s to upstate New York, where they stopped at a well-known garlic festival in the Hudson Valley village...

Hundreds of fans wait for a northbound train on the Meta Electric District platform as an Amtrak train heads south during the 2003 U.S. Open at the Olympia Fields Country Club. No spectators have been allowed at this weekend's BMW Championship at the country club.

Landmarks: Golf, trains share an old link along the old Illinois Central line

August 30, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

Though it discharges passengers less than 100 yards from the historic clubhouse at Olympia Fields Country Club, it's unlikely very many participants in the BMW Championship PGA tour event this...

A sign designates 95th Street as U.S. 20 and U.S. 12 in Oak Lawn. An organization in Massachusetts is working to get U.S. 20 designated as a Historic Auto Trail.

Landmarks: It may play second fiddle locally to other roads, but U.S. Route 20 named for Grant is getting a national boost

August 23, 2020 at 10:53 a.m.

As roads with presidential names go, Lincoln Highway gets most of the fame around these parts. One of the nation's first coast-to-coast highways built to accommodate automobiles, it's named after...

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