Happy times are here again at Didier Farms
October 1, 2023Many thought a Halloween season memory maker stopped in 2022 after approximately three decades when Didier Farms of Lake County closed local operations due to retirement. Then a team…
Comedian Tom Dreesen is a master storyteller, and his performance on Sunday, Sept. 17 at Lake Forest’s John and Nancy Hughes Theater included nearly 30 minutes of Las Vegas-style…
Many thought a Halloween season memory maker stopped in 2022 after approximately three decades when Didier Farms of Lake County closed local operations due to retirement. Then a team…
An impressive array of musical styles from Illinois artists were celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Illinois Rock ’n’ Roll Museum on Route 66’s third annual induction ceremony…
State Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin, D-Olympia Fields, had a flashback as she watched second-graders work with Legos in the Matteson Elementary School District 159 STEM Center. “I remembered…
Niles police will lace up their walking shoes Saturday, Sept. 30 to remember peers they have lost. Several members of the Niles Police Department will participate in the Walk Like MADD…
Second in a series looking at drug-induced homicides The picture of a young, smiling baseball player, dressed in his Glendale Heights White Sox jersey and hat, has an overlay proclaiming…
A Joliet church’s financial quandary is being viewed as a learning lesson for all nonprofits in Illinois and a potential action item for Illinois lawmakers. Messiah Lutheran Church…
Second in a series looking at Black-owned start-up businesses in the Far South Community Development Corp. Marketplace in Chicago Jennifer Givens was ready to pack it in. With her handmade…
“It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock ’n’ roll,” AC/DC sang. No one knows that better than Oak Park natives Mimi Betinis and Mike Gorman. Betinis and Gorman founded…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new assault weapons ban will soon be able to register those weapons so they…
In courtrooms around the state early this week, judges conducted the first hearings under a new system that determines whether a defendant will be jailed while awaiting trial based…
An impressive array of musical styles from Illinois artists were celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Illinois Rock ’n’ Roll Museum on Route 66’s third annual induction ceremony…
SPRINGFIELD — The state has paused a new policy requiring certain noncitizens enrolled in a Medicaid-like health insurance plan to pay copayments for certain services, instructing…
The Illinois State Fair — a multi-million annual agriculture festival in Springfield — reported a nine-year attendance record this year. The state Department of Agriculture, which…
A new battery manufacturing plant is set to open in northern Illinois next year after the state offered more than $330 million in tax incentives to make it happen. Gotion, a Chinese…
Illinois on Monday, Sept. 18, became the first state to fully abolish cash bail through an act of the legislature — a major criminal justice overhaul spurred by the advocacy of a…