Cook County Lifestyle
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Cook with love — and caution: Experts’ advice on avoiding holiday kitchen mishapsDec 22, 2024 3:03 pm - Cooking accidents happen throughout the year but tend to increase during the holidays when well-intentioned cooks are inattentive, inexperienced and in a hurry.
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Grief & healing: Ready for ChristmasDec 21, 2024 6:15 am - I am still wrapping a few gifts for under the tree here, but otherwise I am pretty much prepared for Christmas.
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Trump taps West suburban Catholic school leader as next Vatican ambassadorDec 20, 2024 8:53 pm - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced he’ll nominate West suburban Catholic school board leader Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...
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Charity funds, volunteers provide safety railing for disabled Hoffman Estates veteranDec 20, 2024 3:00 am - Just in time for the holidays, funds from a Hoffman Estates charitable golf outing and volunteer union labor have provided a new safety railing separating the front walkway of the home of a disabled veteran and his wife from the steep four-foot drop into the adjacent driveway.
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A year after Invest in Kids’ demise, Catholic schools work to fund scholarshipsDec 19, 2024 5:48 pm - St. Hubert School in Hoffman Estates is but one suburban Catholic school that’s come up with its own solution to the end of the state’s Invest in Kids Scholarship Tax Credit Program, that’s been cited as a factor in the closure of some in 2024.
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Tri-Cities Salvation Army receives two gold coins valued at over $5,000Dec 18, 2024 12:11 pm - Two gold coins worth over $5,000 were anonymously donated to Salvation Army kettles in Kane County this holiday season, continuing a long-standing tradition of surprise gold coin gifts to help fund operations.
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Celebrate the miracle of Christmas at Holy Mass with St. Catherine of SienaDec 18, 2024 1:00 am - St. Catherine and St. Mary churches in West Dundee and Gilberts invite all to Christmas Eve and Day masses.
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Wheeling's Chabad to light up Town Center with community Hanukkah celebrationDec 17, 2024 10:04 pm - Wheeling's Chabad is lighting a public menorah and hosting an event to spread light and Jewish pride, joining Chabad's global campaign commemorating 50 years of public menorahs.
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Cardinal Cupich to celebrate traditional Simbang Gabi mass at St. Paul in GurneeDec 17, 2024 5:29 pm - Anticipation for the traditional Filipino mass at St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Gurnee is high as Cardinal Blase J. Cupich is scheduled to preside Sunday.
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Authorities: Two dozen geese sickened, killed by lead pellets in suburban parksDec 17, 2024 10:50 am - Police and bird experts are looking for the source of lead pellets that poisoned at least two dozen Canada geese in Lombard, Addison and Villa Park.