Bolingbrook Lifestyle
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Northern Illinois Food Bank's Foodie 5K April 18 to be a virtual eventApr 13, 2020 11:00 pm - As the Northern Illinois Food Bank continues to monitor the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh annual Foodie 5K scheduled to take place at Cantigny Park in Whe...
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Aurora students snare scholarship funds with recycling projectApr 13, 2020 5:30 am - The name rhymes, the function worked and the machine was enough to earn scholarship money and a chance at a national prize for a group of Aurora junior high students. E...
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State moving 200 people from Aurora homeless shelter into hotelApr 13, 2020 1:00 am - The area's largest homeless shelter outside of Chicago is moving its operation and about 200 residents to a hotel fully leased by the state. Homeless people who were sta...
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Naperville family renovates rooms for whole-house accessibilityApr 12, 2020 9:00 am - “Home” is supposed to be the place where we are most at ease. It should be the place where we are most comfortable in our own skins, where we can relax, be ourselves and...
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Frida Kahlo's work reveals beauty in natureApr 11, 2020 5:00 pm - Anyone who is familiar with Frida Kahlo's work knows just how important the Mexican painter's garden was to her. Flowers, fruits, vegetables and other plants are constan...
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'Mind over matter' fuels Naperville veteran's help to othersApr 11, 2020 1:00 am - Wayne Fischer points to two things that got him through his 12 months and 20 days as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam: one, a thought, the other, a team. “Mind over...
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Geneva church offers aid to community with Northern Illinois Food Bank, Lazarus HouseApr 10, 2020 11:00 pm - Many businesses are being hurt by the coronavirus. And yet, some have reached out to help their homeless and indigent neighbors. In March and April, the Unitarian Univer...
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Rugged school walks as a youth? Let Fitbit provide the dataApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Because taking walks remains one of the few things we can still do during the coronavirus outbreak, it was important to take one that could prove a point. I took this pa...
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Sunrise of Naperville North resident enjoys delicious 103rd birthday!Apr 09, 2020 11:00 pm - Duane Cutting, a resident at senior living community Sunrise of Naperville North, survived the flu pandemic as a baby in 1918. He lived through the Great Depression and ...
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American Red Cross honors Holocaust survivor as 2020 Global Citizenship HeroApr 09, 2020 11:00 pm - The American Red Cross of Chicago & Northern Illinois is honoring Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall of Skokie as the 2020 Global Citizenship Hero. A survivor of the ...