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Alien creatures and slime: Park districts create boredom busters as recreation world moves online

May 4, 2020 at 4:50 p.m.

Javier Martinez knew it was a great idea when Maria Contreras suggested posting an online video creating aliens out of toilet paper rolls. Martinez, recreation specialist at the Waukegan Park...

Arts alliance founder focuses on landscapes, new ways to approach photography

May 4, 2020 at 12:55 p.m.

A creator at heart, when Ernest J. Schweit got laid off from his job a decade ago, he switched to photography, encouraged by his wife and family. It proved a...

Idalia Castillo-Herrera and her daughter Nayeli Herrera take a free Waukegan Park District online exercise class while self-quarantining in their Waukegan home.

Online exercise classes give Lake County residents ‘a little sense of normalcy’

April 30, 2020 at 4:08 p.m.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Wendi Kelly exercised in the therapy pool at the Centre Club to ease the pain she felt in her joints due to fibromyalgia. Then, after Gov....

The indigo bunting eats some sunflower seeds on a May day in Lake County.

Get outside as May brings the birds and the blooms

April 30, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.

Friday is the beginning of a month-long festival of birds and blooms right in your own back yard, and farther afield in local parks and forest preserves. In May, no...

Josh Crooks visits a park by a Diamond Lake beach in Mundelein on a sunny April day.

Some Lake County-area beaches, shorelines remain open with caveats

April 24, 2020 at 10:08 a.m.

Josh Crooks walked along Diamond Lake at a Mundelein park and gazed at the calm waters gleaming on a chilly, sunny April day. The construction worker from Mundelein said he...

On 50th anniversary of Apollo 13’s return, Capt. James Lovell offers hope in face of coronavirus

April 17, 2020 at 5:05 p.m.

Retired Capt. James Lovell said he woke up Friday morning, on the 50th anniversary of the return of the ill-fated Apollo 13 to Earth, thinking about the challenges the world...

Bloodroot, a native plant, is blooming in northern Illinois.

There are still ways to celebrate Earth Day despite our lives in lockdown

April 16, 2020 at 2:01 p.m.

April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. But there will be no large gatherings across the nation as there were last year and years before that. We are...

Farm education, youth programs canceled, or online due to virus pandemic

April 15, 2020 at 10:41 a.m.

Liberty Prairie Foundation annually hires 16 youths to work on organic farms in Grayslake. The workers have already been chosen for this season and, in other years, they would already...

Abbey Churchill, assistant manager at Prairie Wind Family Farm in Grayslake, prepares soil for planting in April.

After last year’s weather troubles, Lake County farmers preparing for another tough spring during pandemic

April 15, 2020 at 11:21 a.m.

Last spring's cold, wet weather — combined with a dismal fall — created hardships for many Lake County farmers. This spring, the coronavirus pandemic is adding new difficulties, including a...

Health department reminds people to drink responsibly, seek help if needed

April 9, 2020 at 8:46 a.m.

Some customers who purchase liquor at Gold Eagle Wine and Spirits in Libertyville have indicated they're drinking more than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Jake Cigelnik, who...

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