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THU, 10/17/2019

Thursday, October 17, 2019

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The cornbread creates a sort-of crumble top to the pork chops and apples and helps keep the meat moist.

Fall flavors of pork, apples and cornbread blend into a memorable meal

Fall is the perfect time to enjoy a succulent dish of pork, says Penny Kazmier. Here she pairs pork, apples and cornbread.
A festgoer dressed as the character Pennywise from Stephen King’s “IT” walks through the streets at last year’s Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin.

Enter Elgin's Nightmare on Chicago Street if you dare

Street theater takes on new meaning Saturday, Oct. 19, when Elgin presents the city's homage to Halloween called Nightmare on Chicago Street.
Schaumburg High School sophomore Ely asked why a skeleton’s teeth don’t fall out.

Here's the Scoop: Why don't the teeth fall out of a skeleton's skull?

Schaumburg High School sophomore Ely was looking at skeletons and wondering why teeth don't fall out as a body decays. We have the answer.
A garden at the Mundelein Seminary will be dedicated to the late Cardinal Francis George in a ceremony on Oct. 27. Cardinal Blase Cupich will bless the site following a public Mass.

Garden at Mundelein Seminary to honor Cardinal Francis George

A garden at the Mundelein Seminary will be dedicated to the late Cardinal Francis George in an Oct. 27 ceremony.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, photo Isabelle Olsson, head of color & design for Nest, shows Pixel buds in her ear at Google in Mountain View, Calif.
Google debuts Pixel 4 phone, wireless earbuds with AI
The Pixel 4 phone promises to respond to AI queries even faster than before, while a home Wi-Fi system is getting the AI features for the first time. The company also unveiled a new smart speaker and wireless earbuds, both invoking the AI-powered Google Assistant.
Naper Settlement will take on a distinctly spooky feel this weekend when the living-history museum celebrates All Hallows Eve on Friday and Saturday nights in downtown Naperville.
Festivals Oct. 18-24: All Hallows Eve, Nightmare on Chicago Street & other Halloween happenings
All Hallow's Eve celebrations mark the season in Arlington Heights and Naperville, while Glen Ellyn hosts Pumpkin Flotilla Fest. Check out our list of these and other fall fests happening this weekend and next week.
Heather, left, and Isabella Maldonado help explain what young visitors are finding in the Sea Star Touch habitat exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, where they volunteer every Monday afternoon.
Elk Grove mother and daughter volunteer weekly at Shedd Aquarium
For the last year, seventh-grader Isabella Maldonado of Elk Grove Village and her mother, Heather, have volunteered once a week at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.
This stack of World War II love letters was found in a secondhand shop in Tennessee.
They found a stack of World War II love letters for sale. Then they began to unravel the mystery of who wrote them.
The letters were in the relic room of Smoky Mountain Knife Works in eastern Tennessee.
Everything you need to know about potatoes.
You can't go wrong with potatoes, but here's how to pick the right ones
Learning to pick the right potato for the job can be confusing, but we offer some guidelines for making getting it right easier.
Jen Leban, a creative technology teacher at Sandburg Middle School in Elmhurst, waits for students outside her classroom. She was recognized this fall as one of 10 finalists for the 2020 Illinois Teacher of the Year Award from the Illinois State Board of Education.
How Elmhurst teacher averted burnout to become one of state's top instructors
Sandburg Middle School teacher Jen Leban was confronting burnout and thinking about a career change when a new opportunity came along. Now the Elmhurst teacher is one of 10 finalists for the 2020 Illinois Teacher of the Year Award.
Susan Eisendrath’s farm garden was once a typical grass lawn under the shadow of a big old silver maple. Now it is now an assortment of raised growing beds, mulched paths and fruiting vines attached to various structures.
The front-yard vegetable garden. Will suburbia stand for it?
Lawns are in retreat as gardeners want more space for treasured plants, for rain gardens, for pollinator gardens and even as a place to tuck herbs and other culinary plants in with the ornamentals. Is suburbia ready for a full-blown upfront veggie garden, in all its late-summer raggedness?
This statue outside the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City, Iowa, shows American explorers Meriwether Lewis (in hat) and William Clark with their faithful dog, Seaman, the only animal that survived the entire trip. Many other dogs were eaten by the crew.
Constable: Acknowledge good and bad with Lewis & Clark holiday
While government buildings and some schools were closed Monday in honor of Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day, I spend the day wondering why we don't honor actual American explorers, Lewis and Clark.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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