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T-rex and friends are ready to greet visitors at new Jurassic Gardens on Volo Auto Museum grounds

April 26, 2021 at 4:16 p.m.

The latest attraction at the Volo Auto Museum is not a car — but a dinosaur, actually dozens of animatronic dinosaurs including a 30-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex and a 35-foot tall...

Outdoor Lakefront Biergarten reopens in Winthrop Harbor April 30

April 20, 2021 at 5:40 p.m.

Within a few years of trying their homemade brews out on friends, Kyle Wenzel of Winthrop Harbor and Joe Van Heirseele of Gurnee opened a tap room and brewery, Harbor...

Community performers get creative for virtual Fear No Art

April 19, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

For last year's Fear No Art, College of Lake County students and community members took on the challenge of creating virtual art during the pandemic. "It went so well that...

Virtual Maker Faire features creators of robots, 3D printers and more: ‘Making things makes me phenomenally happy’

April 15, 2021 at 10:14 a.m.

Daniel Power remembers the first thing he made with a 3D printer. It was a simple ball. These days, he's making 3D printers out of 3D printers, and a whole...

Bloodroot opens for a short amount of time in April. Its petals are white with yellow centers.

Outdoors column: Think yellow on Earth Day

April 15, 2021 at 9:08 a.m.

For Earth Day, which is April 22 this year, I will focus on the color yellow. Why yellow, instead of green? Because yellow is all over the neighborhood. Daffodils are...

Singer/songwriter goes back to the circus with his new album

April 12, 2021 at 4:36 p.m.

Kerry Patrick Clark admits the past year with the pandemic and political upheaval made him want to escape to the circus. That made him think of the first song he...

Outdoors column: It’s loon season on the lakes

April 1, 2021 at 10:17 a.m.

On a cool, foggy, damp spring morning, a loon yodeled. The sound floated through the mist, causing me to pause in disbelief. Then it yodeled again. And one more time....

Neil Diamond tribute to be shown virtually through James Lumber Center

March 31, 2021 at 12:35 p.m.

When he was in high school, Robert Neary would sing, "Hello Again," the song Neil Diamond made famous in "The Jazz Singer," to a girlfriend — "or maybe two," as...

Lake County’s public art program features work by local women

March 25, 2021 at 3:53 p.m.

Even before she hung the last painting on the walls of the Lake County administration building, artist Katrina Davis-Salazar said she was receiving thanks and answering questions. A Gurnee-based artist,...

Skunk cabbage has tiny blooms on what's called a spadix, hidden within a large red leathery, leaf-like structure called a spathe. It sometimes blooms even with snow on the ground.

Outdoors column: How early-bloomers witch hazel and skunk cabbage got their strange names

March 17, 2021 at 1:33 p.m.

Each winter, when I want to see the first blooming shrubs in northern Illinois, I look for witch hazels. Magically, these tiny yellow and red flowers sometimes appear as early...

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