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Fall gardening checklist: Bulbs, tropicals, frost prep

By Tim Johnson
Oct 12, 2025 3:00 am - The average first frost at the Chicago Botanic Garden is Oct. 15, so it’s time to be thinking about fall garden maintenance.
Leaky garage roof leads to clash between resident and association

By Matthew Moodhe
Oct 10, 2025 2:00 am - Is a townhouse association liable for damage to a resident’s property from a leaky garage roof?
Side hustle to store owner: Geneva’s Little Red Barn Door offers gifts, decor to fit the season

By Vicki Martinka Petersen
Oct 09, 2025 2:39 pm - Little Red Barn Door is a Geneva boutique shop featuring home decor, floral accents, accessories and thoughtful gifts for every season.
Home & garden calendar, Oct. 12-18

Oct 07, 2025 4:15 pm - Upcoming gardening events and club meetings, covering topics such as daylilies, dahlias, hydrangeas, bonsai, and container gardening.
This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact

By AYA DIAB
Oct 07, 2025 4:00 pm - The lights are off, the house is quiet and nothing seems to be running. But electricity is silently flowing through the plugs in your home. This hidden drain is known as phantom energy.
How to grow a giant pumpkin, with help from science

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN and SHELBY LUM
Oct 07, 2025 3:33 pm - The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. It took third place in annual weigh-off this year, coming in at 1,931 pounds.
As the garden winds down, it's time to care for winter-prepping birds

By JESSICA DAMIANO
Oct 07, 2025 1:30 pm - It’s now, when the garden is slowing down, that birds need us the most. Providing sustenance is one of several ways that we can support them.
Fortune Brands opens new campus headquarters in Deerfield

Daily Herald report
Oct 04, 2025 1:30 pm - Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc., an industry leader in home, security and digital products, has opened its new headquarters in Deerfield.
Should home inspectors disclose asbestos?

By Barry Stone
Oct 03, 2025 12:16 pm - The home inspector I hired never mentioned that the floor tiles and air duct insulation contain asbestos. Shouldn't he have pointed this out?
‘Mini-forests’ are rare in the US. The Algonquin Garden Club is planting one in Kane County

By Michelle Meyer
Oct 01, 2025 1:24 pm - Launching a first-of-its-kind ecological project in the region, the Algonquin Garden Club will transform a small plot in the Dixie Briggs Fromm Nature Preserve in Dundee Township into a "mini-forest."

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