Paul Eisenberg

A bee that may or may not be grouchy visits a flower in columnist Paul Eisenberg's garden in Homewood.

Landmarks: The bees weren’t killer and the murder hornet is mostly mythical, but get ready for the crazy worms

July 9, 2020 at 12:31 p.m.

While working in my garden last year, a bee somehow flew under my loose shirt and started crawling around my back. As someone who grows things and who likes to...

Tinley Park's Hailstorm Brewing Co. describes its Prairie Madness IPA as a "Midwest take on a classic American craft style."

Landmarks: Be it pets or beers, much goes into the making of a new name

June 21, 2020 at 3:08 a.m.

One of my favorite jobs here at work each week is compiling photos of pets who need new homes for the Pets of the Week segment that runs in the...

Landmarks: Monarch butterflies, the ‘poster child for bugs,’ only eat milkweed, and a Frankfort woman wants to help you give them a meal

August 11, 2022 at 9:52 a.m.

Some kids swap baseball or gaming cards. Frankfort resident Kay MacNeil dealt in a different commodity. "I'm an old lady," she said. "But when I was little, kids always picked...

A cicada from the 2020 subbrood is freshly emerged from its exoskeleton and is ready to head into the tree tops and start buzzing its mating call Friday in Homewood.

Landmarks: Bevy of cicadas creating a buzz, but in four years they’ll be back in even larger numbers

June 7, 2020 at 10:59 a.m.

If you predicted a plague of locusts would be next up in what has been an eventful year, you were wrong. They're cicadas, not locusts, and their arrival was part...

Markham police kept a presence at two gas stations Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Dixie Highway and 159th Street.

Businesses close near Orland Square, retail areas; south suburban towns implement curfews

May 31, 2020 at 8:26 p.m.

South and southwest suburban police were out in force Sunday afternoon with officials in most towns saying it was a precautionary measure based on monitoring social media on the possibility...

A monkey grasps the shoulders of Joe Exotic after a magic show he presented in 2009 at the now-demolished Lincoln Mall in Matteson.

Landmarks: Former reporter recalls Tiger King’s visit to Lincoln Mall — ‘Was I drunk when I wrote this?’

May 31, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

It seems like so long ago, but it's only been a few months. Now deeper into the Time of Coronavirus, our mood has changed quite a bit since those initial...

Look for the helpers: School turns staff appreciation week into fundraiser for community; sisters raise cash for Crisis Center

May 27, 2020 at 2:08 p.m.

High schools in District 228 usually hold an employee appreciation week in May that celebrates all the staff throughout the district with a variety of activities including small gifts, breakfast...

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