Winnebago County Calendar of Events
August 29, 2017THROUGH SEPT. 4 Hello from Japan Discovery Center Museum 711 N. Main St., Rockford 10 a.m., $8 per person, free for members and children age one and under Children will have fun learning…
THROUGH SEPT. 4 Hello from Japan Discovery Center Museum 711 N. Main St., Rockford 10 a.m., $8 per person, free for members and children age one and under Children will have fun learning…
August 31 Summer Concert Series 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Park, 3400 Pearl St., McHenry Free Enjoy a performance by the Saturday June Band in this session of the 2017 Summer Concert…
Aug. 24 DeKalb Farmers Market 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Van Buer Plaza, corner of north Second and Locust streets, DeKalb Free The DeKalb Farmers Market features more than 30 vendors offering…
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him,” wrote the American writer Annie Dillard in her 1982 essay, “Total…
AUG. 31 Central Illinois Human Resources Conference Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Center, 10 Brickyard Dr., Bloomington $50-$75 Full-day conference…
AUG. 31-SEPT. 2 ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ 7:30 p.m. each night Corn Stock Theatre, 1700 N. Park Rd., Peoria $22; $18 for students 18 and under ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’…
When moving to a new community, a prime consideration for a family is often the location and quality of schools. But for Sukhvinder Singh, his wife, Pradeep Kaur, and daughters Divgot…
THROUGH SEPT. 23 American Buffalo Riverfront Playhouse 11-13 Water Street Mall, Aurora Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m. In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot to rob…
Nearly 13 percent of the 1,350 Illinois ZIP codes at high risk of lead exposure in children are in Cook County. The 172 Cook County areas at high risk of lead exposure in children include…
For generations, America has been thought of as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone who worked and studied hard could grow up to achieve any goal they set for themselves. …
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is asking state lawmakers for more authority to regulate the homeowners insurance market in Illinois. His comments came after the Bloomington-based…
CHICAGO — At a union hall on Chicago’s South Side, a powerful Democratic Party organization decided who to endorse in the March 17 primary in one key statewide race. The Cook…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order July 14 requiring Illinois agencies to draft recommendations to respond to tariffs being implemented by President Donald…
SPRINGFIELD — Raja Krishnamoorthi has worn many hats: lawyer, small-business owner, and for the last 10 years, U.S. representative. The 51-year-old Schaumburg Democrat, who represents…