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The Mobile Museum of Tolerance stopped in Palatine this week. The museum, an offshoot of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, visits Bensenville next week.

Mobile museum rolls through suburbs teaching lessons of Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust

A bus parked in the lot by the Palatine Park District Community Center is taking visitors on a virtual trip through history, teaching lessons about the civil rights movement and the Holocaust that resonate in today’s society.

How much water you need each day depends on a variety of factors, including age, weight and level of activity.

Patient advocate: Hydration: We’ll drink to that!

The emergence of our health culture in the 1990s brought water to the forefront of nutrition. Colorful insulated water bottles are now a fashion accessory, helped along by social media. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Water is essential to our health and well-being, physical and mental.

Graue Mill and the surrounding Fullersburg Woods are part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.

Fullersburg Woods joins National Register of Historic Places

Fullersburg Woods oozes history. The U.S. Department of the Interior agrees, adding nearly 177 acres of the forest preserve in Oak Brook to the National Register of Historic Places.

A new study shows the COVID-19 vaccines modestly reduced cardiovascular conditions, hospitalizations and deaths of all causes, including those not linked to COVID.

Study: COVID vaccine linked to broad protections against heart conditions

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to COVID-19 — strokes, heart attacks, and hospitalization from heart disease — by about 40%, according to a new study.

FDA panel backs first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology

A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal health advisers recommended approval of the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Japanese sashiko, stitch work on the outside of the fabric shores up and decorates older textiles.

Mending clothes makes a comeback as a way to save money — and the planet

Growing concerns about overly wasteful shopping and fast fashion — and their effects on the environment — are causing some U.S. consumers to reconsider redoing and repairing their clothes.

The offerings of hop water — carbonated water flavored with hop extracts — are quickly expanding. Though hops are mostly associated with beer, it’s important to know that hop water is not beer. It is flavored sparkling water.

Hop water offers a different kind of canned refreshment. Here are 9 to try.

Over the past decade or so, the nonalcoholic beverage aisle has gone from sparsely populated to entirely overwhelming. One beverage category on the ascent: hop water — carbonated water flavored with hop extracts, the same ingredient that gives beer its bitterness and aroma. Here’s a primer on this new sparkling water.