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Kuipers Family Farm in Maple Park offers a variety of activities beyond pumpkin picking. (Kuipers Family Farm)

Kuipers Family Farm opens for 25th fall season Saturday

It may feel like summer outside, but autumn kicks off Saturday in Maple Park when Kuipers Family Farm opens for its 25th fall season.

Summer bounty: When your garden goes into overdrive, it’s time to get creative

Have more cherry tomatoes and garden-fresh zucchini than you know how to use? Try something new with this accidental Farro Bruschetta Tomato Salad and savory Zucchini Scarpaccia.

Inverness genealogist Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, a volunteer in the Arlington Heights Memorial Library’s genealogy room, examines research materials available to amateur genealogists and experts alike. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)

‘Making American history unavailable’: Genealogists lament plan to move National Archives from Chicago

Historians, genealogists and other researchers fear losing access to the historical records housed at the National Archives at Chicago, one of two regional National Archives and Records Administration facilities that are set to close.

Join in ‘Bike to Church Sunday’ at Gary UMC in Wheaton

Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton invites community members to participate in "Bike to Church Sunday" on Aug. 30, featuring worship followed by refreshments and fellowship.

Vendors from the first All Abilities Vendor Fair in 2024. This year’s event will be Saturday, Sept. 12, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Naperville. (Jeff Leach)

Naperville church to host third annual All Abilities Vendor Fair Sept. 12

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Naperville will host its third annual All Abilities Vendor Fair on Sept. 12, featuring vendors, food, and activities that celebrate businesses serving the disability community.

Celebrate National Waffle Day with the one-day only $5 Swaffle chicken and waffle sandwich at Fry the Coop. (Fry the Coop)

Dining Out: National Waffle, Pork Chop and Dog Day specials, lobster season at Shaw’s and more

We’ve got specials for National Dog, Waffle and Pork Chop Days at suburban restaurants. It’s also time for Shaw’s Crab House’s annual lobster festival and The Greggory in South Barrington is welcoming an acclaimed chef for its next “Friends at the Hearth” dinner.

A peregrine falcon named Vixen gets ready to feed her four little hatchlings on May 5 at a nest on the outside of the second floor of Aurora City Hall in downtown Aurora. (Tom Schrader)

Aurora’s popular baby falcons, which have left their nest outside city hall, seen as sign of Fox River’s resurgence

Falcons and other birds of prey were once rare in the region, with their population even reaching zero at one point. But they have made a return.