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Why you shouldn’t heat your home with a clothes dryer

By Barry Stone
Aug 12, 2025 11:14 am - Are dryer vent diverters sold in hardware stores and used to provide extra heat in a home illegal?
It’s OK to keep planting in late summer

By Tim Johnson
Aug 12, 2025 10:37 am - It’s OK to keep planting in late summer, but be sure to water new plants and those that are less established.
‘It’s going to be a game changer’: DuPage’s Crisis Recovery Center opening soon in Wheaton

By Katlyn Smith
Aug 12, 2025 9:42 am - DuPage officials are preparing to open a $25.8 million Crisis Recovery Center in Wheaton. It’s hailed as the first facility of its kind in Illinois.
Succotash with corn, peaches and andouille is an ode to summer

By Aaron Hutcherson
Aug 12, 2025 8:31 am - This summer succotash includes the more traditional corn, lima beans and tomatoes, but spiced, smoky andouille sausage and sweet, juicy peaches take things up a notch. The beauty of succotash is that it highlights summer produce, so feel free to use whatever fruits and vegetables are at their peak.
6 things I’ve learned in 25 years of food journalism

By Joe Yonan
Aug 12, 2025 5:06 am - As Veggies columnist Joe Yonan enters semi-retirement, he looks back on 25 years in the food business and the things he’s learned from talented writers, cookbook authors, home cooks, chefs, farmers and gardeners along the way.
A jammy, sweet-tart plum sauce steals the show in this skillet chicken

By Aaron Hutcherson
Aug 12, 2025 4:14 am - Peaches are the golden child of summer stone fruit season. Meanwhile, plums are like the oft-overlooked middle child — rarely in the spotlight but no less deserving of love and attention. This savory skillet dinner pairs plums and red onion as a deliciously sweet-tart complement to chicken thighs.
Why you should buy your berries in the freezer aisle

By Lindsey Bever
Aug 12, 2025 4:11 am - Many people prefer fresh berries for their yogurt or cereal, certain recipes or healthy snacks. But when you can’t eat them fast enough — since they spoil, often within days — or they are out of season, frozen berries are the way to go, experts said.
How I learned to stop stressing and just have people over for dinner

By Emily Heil
Aug 12, 2025 4:10 am - Having people over doesn’t have to be stressful, time-consuming or expensive. Here are a few strategies for making it something we could all do a little more often.
Little Bear Ribfest returns to Vernon Hills Aug. 15-16

Daily Herald staff report
Aug 11, 2025 1:20 pm - Enjoy blues, brews and barbecue when the Vernon Hills Park District's Little Bear Ribfest returns Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15 and 16. The 14th annual festival will take place along the shores of Little Bear Lake at the Century Park Arboretum, 1001 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hills.
‘Flying jewels’: Naperville man has seen 237 species of hummingbirds

By Jeff Reiter
Aug 11, 2025 1:15 pm - Denis Kania of Naperville is fairly obsessed with hummingbirds. He’s been to 30 countries and has seen 237 of the 367 hummingbird species.

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