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Simple, relatively healthy soup the best antidote for holiday stress

The only way to keep your sanity this time of year is to keep things simple – especially in the kitchen. This simple Roasted Tomato Basil Soup fits the bill.

The Foy family decorates their home for Christmas every year with different light displays that sync with music on an FM radio channel.

Lights, camera .... Christmas! Batavia family will compete on season premiere of ABC’s ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’

Tips for easy, elegant wine and cheese pairings

New gourmet tea and spice shop opens in Crystal Lake

It’s time to maintain your tools, organize garage

‘We’ve struggled for a couple years’: Rolling Meadows Hallmark store to close up shop after three decades

Billy’s Pancake House, a staple in Palatine, stands vacant since the owners announced their retirement last week. The business had been operating for more than 50 years.

‘It’s the end of an era’: Billy’s Pancake House in Palatine closes doors after 5 decades

After five decades, Billy’s Pancake House, a Palatine mainstay, has closed its doors.

This recipe takes the typical idea of a cobbler and uses store-bought cookie dough as the crust.

Easy, one-pot apple cobbler leaves you more time for family

This recipe from Chef Grace Goudie takes the typical idea of a cobbler and uses store-bought cookie dough as the crust, taking a note from Food Network star Sandra Lee’s “semi homemade” angle.

After more than four months, the Tool Library of Lake County reopened last weekend in a new location in Mundelein.

Tool Library of Lake County reopens at new location in Mundelein

After more than four months in transition, a homegrown volunteer enterprise and resource for do-it-yourselfers has reopened with a new name and location in Mundelein.

Sky Zone will open its ninth Chicago-area location on Friday in the former Buy Buy Baby space at 580 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg.

Indoor entertainment venue Sky Zone opening in Schaumburg; Arlington Heights site planned

Sky Zone, an expanding chain of indoor entertainment venues, will open its ninth Chicago-area location Friday at the former Buy Buy Baby store in Schaumburg with another expected in Arlington Heights next year.

TikTok’s ‘onion boil’ isn’t boiled. It’s so good it doesn’t matter.

A TikTok trend has given the humble onion its sexiest breakout part since that bloomin’ appetizer came along.

Nearly 30% of US drugstores closed in one decade, study shows

Nearly three out of 10 U.S. drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021, new research shows. Black and Latino neighborhoods were most vulnerab...