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Some strategic choices regarding plants can greatly reduce the risk that insects and wildlife show up uninvited.

Plants that can deter insects and wildlife

Some strategic choices regarding plants can greatly reduce the risk that insects and wildlife show up uninvited.

Upgrades including cleaned and reset headstones, a new flagpole, benches, signage and fencing were part of a $740,000 restoration project at Elk Grove Cemetery. It’s the only cemetery in Cook County that is the final resting place of veterans from the Revolutionary War.

‘Truly history’: Restoration breathes new life into final resting place of Cook County’s only Revolutionary War veterans

Elk Grove Cemetery - the resting place of the only two Revolutionary War veterans buried in Cook County - has undergone a $740,000 renovation, and will be formally rededicated Saturday on the nation’s 250th anniversary.

When you drink your last cup of coffee may determine how fast you fall asleep.

Love coffee? Have the last cup at this time for a better night’s sleep.

A 2023 randomized trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that people who drank one or more cups of coffee each day lost, on average, 36 minutes of sleep compared with those who didn’t over a two-week period.

Fireworks, parades and community mark America’s 250th in Chicago

Crowds fanned out across the Chicago area Saturday to celebrate the Fourth of July, marking 250 years of American independence with colorful parades, beach days and backyard barbecues.

Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, is framed by flowers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on April 9, 2010.

How the White House Rose Garden and its plantings have changed over the past century

The White House Rose Garden has seen many changes over the years. Here's a look at how the Rose Garden and its plantings have evolved.

A person uses a fan as they wait in line to purchase Broadway tickets in Times Square during a heat advisory in New York on May 19. Find ways to stay cool during scorching temperatures to avoid heat stress.

Stay cool: How to manage threat of dangerous heat

Heat can be dangerous, but health experts say there are ways to manage the threat.

Lt Governor Henry Hamilton surrenders to Col George Rogers Clark February, 24, 1779, at Vincennes in Indiana.

A cunning colonel, perilous march and British missteps: How Illinois helped shape the outcome of the American Revolution

Virginian George Rogers Clark and a band of frontiersmen captured strategic Illinois territory 248 years ago and changed history. Illinois may not have been the front line of the Revolutionary War, but it played a ‘pivotal role’ in the success of the fledgling United States.