Cook County Lifestyle
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How students from Ukraine are integrating into the Saint Viator communitySep 22, 2023 6:00 am - This semester, Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights has two new students from Ukraine enrolled in classes. Vitalii Strutynskyi is a current senior who arrived ...
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Kane County farmers share how technology has improved their industrySep 22, 2023 6:00 am - At the start of my career, I spent as much time around farmers and their families as with anyone else on my news beats. That comes with the territory covering community ...
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Aquatic studies 101: DuPage ecologists raise mussels, a dragonfly that are basic to local watersSep 22, 2023 5:00 am - At an aquatic laboratory nestled in Warrenville's Blackwell Forest Preserve, freshwater mussels grow in beakers, fish race up and down long holding tanks, and rare endan...
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Annual art sale set for Sept. 30 in Prospect HeightsSep 22, 2023 1:00 am - The Birds of a Feather Pop-Up Art Walk and Sale returns on Saturday, Sept. 30. The collaborative community event, sponsored by the Sunflower Art Group, Prospect Heights ...
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Area Kiwanis Clubs Team Up to Host 3rd Annual Baby Shower DriveSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Kiwanis Club of Des Plaines and eKiwanis Club of Greater Chicago Collecting Donations to Address Local Diaper Need DES PLAINES, IL - Two area Kiwanis Clubs, the Kiwanis ...
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Naperville Walk to Remember on Oct. 14 lets bereaved parents honor, connectSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - The pain of pregnancy loss or neonatal loss - and the world-upending heartache of not being able to take one's baby home from the hospital - can make for especially isol...
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2023 Community Grant Winners AnnouncedSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Each year the Palatine Jaycees award grant money to non-for-profit organizations that have a positive impact on residents of the Palatine Community. Organizations are g...
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Seigle Foundation makes grants to address food insecuritySep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Seigle Foundation recently announced the total award of $40,000 in grants to two food security organizations, Food for Greater Elgin and Northern Illinois Food Bank. Jul...
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Jump scares: Suburban haunted houses serve up Halloween screams for intrepid fansSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - For those who prefer Halloween haunts of the terrifying kind, who have a hankering for horror and prefer scares up close and personal, a number of haunted houses open th...
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Water Street Naperville to host fall mum sale to benefit We Grow Dreams special needsSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Water Street in downtown Naperville will host a plant sale featuring fall mums, hay bales, pumpkin décor and mixed pots from We Grow Dreams in West Chicago. The sale wi...