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Lansing resident Marlene Cook stands in the graveyard at First Church in Lansing, which dates back to the 1860s. (Paul Eisenberg/Daily Southtown)

Landmarks: Some of the graves at an old Lansing cemetery have been lost, but the stories of those buried there are getting new life

March 8, 2020 at 9:37 a.m.

They probably don't know it, but motorists cruising through the intersection of Ridge Road and Burnham Avenue in Lansing are driving over the dead. But to whom those old bones...

Landmarks: A secret room was discovered at an old house in Morgan Park, a purported stop on the Underground Railroad — but that doesn’t mean it hid freedom seekers

March 2, 2020 at 10:14 a.m.

Some people like history. There are interesting stories about how we got to where we are now and links to the past that help give context to current events. Often,...

The Old Joliet Prison in Joliet on Aug. 21, 2018. The prison was built in 1858 and operated until 2002.

Landmarks: Two Joliet limestone structures 4 miles apart on the I&M Canal renew link after a century and a half

February 23, 2020 at 9:40 a.m.

The structures both were erected more than a century and a half ago, out of the same yellowish limestone, just four miles apart. Both were constructed adjacent to the newly...

Trails offer hiking opportunities at Sand Ridge Nature Center as well as links to other forest preserve facilities.

Landmarks: New Sand Ridge Campus a forest preserve first

February 14, 2020 at 3:10 p.m.

There's something I learned a long time ago in my journalism career: There are ancient tree stumps poking from the muck deep under Lake Michigan 15 miles out from Chicago....

Fun out of the sun: Southland libraries offer cool indoor events for a hot Saturday

July 18, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

It's hot outside, but summertime is no time for cabin fever. So what's there to do while staying cool if you don't have a pool? You'll have it made in...

An Italian ice cooler at Zarlengo's pairs Italian ice with vanilla ice cream.

Zarlengo’s brings homemade Italian ice to the Southland

May 23, 2019 at 10:00 p.m.

It was sunny but not too hot on a recent Sunday. Still, the tables outside of Zarlengo's Italian Ice in Chicago Heights were full. Aaron Deal, of Flossmoor, sat with...

Cher gave the first performance at what was then called the World Music Theater in Tinley Park in early June, 1990.

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre rocks Tinley Park

May 23, 2019 at 9:28 p.m.

Tinley Park officials want word to spread: "We are the World." They haven't officially borrowed the title of the 1985 USA for Africa hit, but they are playing up their...

A vintage Airline clock is on display in the kitchen area of the 1950s Park Forest House Museum.

Park Forest House offers glimpse into what it was like to be modern

May 12, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

The wagons of the pioneers who settled in Park Forest had fins. And though those hardy folk who first came to a new settlement at the southern outskirts of Cook...

The theater at KidsWork Children's Museum in Frankfort has a ticket office and costume and puppet collection.

A kid’s job is to play at Frankfort KidsWork Children’s Museum

May 12, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

The youngsters visiting KidsWork Children's Museum on a recent Thursday were learning, but they looked like they were having lots of fun in the process. The museum looks little like...

Bob Enright, left, and Eddie Betts stand in the clubhouse at Izaak Walton Preserve in Homewood. The building once served as a barracks for a World War II prisoner of war camp near Thornton.

Homewood/Flossmoor: Trains figure prominently

May 23, 2019 at 6:34 a.m.

Our day in the Homewood-Flossmoor area starts more than 400 million years ago, when the area was under water, a small part of a giant shallow sea, a good environment...

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