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It's easy to clear the mind in this garden of rugged beauty.
Bonsai trees and limestone slabs are the sculpture pieces. Stone nooks and crannies hold all kinds of surprises. And just when you thought it couldn't get more serene, a gold finch will re...
Updated: Aug 29, 2020 at 08:46 AM
CLAY CITY, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana couple has opened a residential care facility for homeless female veterans and women facing addiction.
Dan and Gloria Chassie, with the help of others, renovated a two-story home in Clay City in preparation of A Pla...
Updated: Aug 23, 2020 at 10:05 AM
In search of astounding stories for his book, "American Oz," journalist Michael Sean Comerford of Barrington spent a year trekking 21,570 miles, mostly by hitchhiking across North America as a modern-day Odysseus. Facing trials of hard labor and sta...
Updated: Aug 26, 2020 at 07:05 AM
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Travelers left behind nearly a million dollars at U.S. airport security checkpoints last year, including about $19,000 in foreign currency, a newspaper reported Friday.
A Transportation Security Administration report said travelers...
Updated: Aug 21, 2020 at 03:01 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Someone has defaced a giant mural of George Floyd at the Minneapolis intersection where he died in May.
Someone sprayed black paint on the mural on the side of a food market, the Star Tribune reported. A Minneapolis police spokesm...
Updated: Aug 22, 2020 at 08:48 AM
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Aug. 20, the 233rd day of 2020. There are 133 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-p...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 08:00 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot adamantly defended on Thursday a beefed-up police presence outside her home, saying extra officers were necessary to protect her and her family.
"Given the threats that I have received, given the threats ...
Updated: Aug 20, 2020 at 07:00 PM
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal fraud charges have been filed against the operator of a suburban Chicago private school operator who is accused of looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a school nutrition program.
The charges filed against Pamela Str...
Updated: Aug 20, 2020 at 05:30 PM
WHEN JIM THOMPSON DIED last weekend, he left behind loving family, friends and at least one asterisk.
That asterisk would belong to the legacy of Otto Kerner, like Thompson, a former governor of Illinois.
Unlike Thompson, Kerner passed with no grand...
Updated: Aug 21, 2020 at 03:45 PM
Here are excerpts of editorials published in newspapers in Illinois.
August 15, 2020
(Arlington Heights) Daily Herald
Jim Thompson, the last governor to get things done
The state of Illinois may never again see, and probably never before saw, the bl...
Updated: Aug 18, 2020 at 04:31 PM