Cook County Lifestyle
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How Wheaton teacher inspires students to become educatorsJan 09, 2024 6:24 am - When her students ask what she was like at their age, if she was part of the popular clique, Tiffany Marconi opens up about her high school experience. Her family had mov...
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DuPage MLK breakfast aims to bring together races, culturesJan 08, 2024 10:41 am - The DuPage County Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Advisory Committee’s inaugural MLK Breakfast will be held Jan. 15 at The Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace. It’s the culmination...
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Home Delivery Service brings Schaumburg Library to your doorJan 08, 2024 6:58 am - Organizing the Friendship Village Saturday Night Movie Club is no easy feat – just ask Irene Bauer. “It takes a lot of time,” Bauer said. “And you can’t please everybody....
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How to help a loved one through mental illnessJan 07, 2024 9:43 am - As of 2019, an estimated 13.1 million adults had a serious mental illness, a categorization that includes schizophrenia, severe bipolar disorder, major depression and a f...
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Good News Sunday: First babies of 2024 make their appearanceJan 07, 2024 9:09 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Andrea and Matthew Hodge greeted ano...
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Skyview: Dusting of snow covers salt silo roofJan 07, 2024 8:59 am - Standing like a lonely sentry ready for duty, there were signs of life at an Illinois Department of Transportation salt silo after a brief snow shower passed through Arli...
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The grandparent scam hasn’t gone away. But now more young people are being duped by fraudsters, expert says.Jan 07, 2024 5:49 am - From his office in Rosemont, Ray Olsen oversees fraud prevention and detection for Wintrust Financial Corp.’s network of 15 community banks, where much of his staff’s att...
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Grief & healing: Downtime after the New YearJan 06, 2024 9:23 am - All that excitement around the December and New Year holidays may leave a bit of a void as January unfolds in the second week. At least it does for me. On the one hand, i...
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Lake County Audubon Society organizes winter bird watching seriesJan 06, 2024 5:15 am - Lake County Audubon Society’s new bird watching series, called Bird Lake County, kicks off today with a visit to North Point Marina and socializing over coffee afterward ...
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Colorful murals brighten the suburbs. Here’s where to see themJan 06, 2024 5:15 am - Painted on the walls of suburban buildings and underpasses, dozens of colorful public murals brighten an otherwise drab winter landscape. Mundelein alone boasts three of ...