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Optimize your organization: Tips to eliminate the clutter and cut down your stress

Metro Creative Services
Dec 24, 2024 9:35 pm - If clutter has you down, consider these strategies to organize your interior spaces and start the new year with a new outlook.
Willow Creek worshipers gather on Christmas Eve

By Paul Valade
Dec 24, 2024 6:21 pm - Willow Creek Community Church members came together on Tuesday to experience the hope and peace of the Christmas season.
Elgin church hosts musical and charity events this January

Submitted by Susan Tousey
Dec 24, 2024 12:15 am - Christ the Lord Lutheran Church in Elgin hosting events in January including organ recitals, a service to support refugee/immigrant outreach, and a hymn singing celebration.
Shake snow from plants; shovel with care

By Tim Johnson
Dec 23, 2024 6:38 pm - There has not been much snow in the Chicago area yet this year, but when a storm does finally come, carefully shake snow off plants during heavy wet storms to minimize damage.
Chicago middle-schooler finds goose poop that has cancer-fighting compound

By Sydney Page
Dec 23, 2024 3:06 pm - When Camarria Williams, 13, stumbled upon goose poop in a neighborhood park, she enthusiastically scooped some up. She and six other students were looking for bacteria samples. She learned, with university researchers’ help, that her goose poop contained a cancer-fighting compound.
Be intentional when facing the new year

Annettee Budzban
Dec 23, 2024 1:20 pm - Annettee Budzban says living intentionally can help us begin the new year.
‘A beautiful coming together’: Mixed-faith families celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah on same day

Marie Wilson
Dec 23, 2024 9:32 am - On rare occasions, Hanukkah falls on Dec. 25. See how suburban Chicago families celebrate their blended traditions of latkes, light and presents.
Why disclose old, ungrounded outlets?

By Barry Stone
Dec 23, 2024 6:15 am - Q: As a fellow home inspector, I think you go overboard with electrical issues, such as ungrounded two-prong outlets in old homes.
How to use store-bought puff pastry for easy holiday entertaining

By Jessie Sheehan
Dec 23, 2024 5:39 am - Here are a variety of puff-pastry assembly techniques that you can effortlessly and successfully try at home during the holidays — or at any time the craving for impressively flaky, puff-pastry-wrapped goodies hits.
Manhattan clam chowder inspires a seafood stew worthy of company

Ellie Krieger
Dec 23, 2024 5:35 am - Turn the classic tomato-based Manhattan clam chowder into a hearty seafood-packed stew that’s a meal in and of itself. The base can be made and refrigerated up to two days in advance; bring it to a boil and add the seafood for an impressive, company-worthy meal.

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