Sunday’s Bark BBQ Fest in Arlington Heights brought out guests of both the two- and four-footed variety for the inaugural event, an outdoor market with products for pets and food for humans.
If it’s anything like the past decade, roughly 150 Illinois residents will be injured in a fireworks-related accident this year. Most of them will occur in the days surrounding the July 4 holiday.
New research looking at future production of six staple crops including wheat, soybeans and sorghum found that rice alone should have the smallest decline in global yields.
Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. Heat doesn’t just mean canceled events. It also poses a health risk, especially for children, older people and those with certain health conditions.
We can train for old age by making good lifestyle choices like diet and exercise and preparing our bodies for the physical challenges of aging.
In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles. Today, however, some preventable, contagious diseases are making a comeback as vaccine hesitancy pushes immunization rates down.
More than 2,000 American flags were put up on Saturday for Wheaton’s Field of Honor, which will be on display at Seven Gables Park until July 4.