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No matter how you slice them, apples are always a fall favorite

No matter how you slice them, apples are always a fall favorite

— November 7, 2022

Brisk, fall weather brings crowds of Illinoisans to apple orchards to enjoy the crisp, juicy flavor of their favorite in-season apples. “Whether fried, dipped in peanut butter or…

  • Early spring yard tasks before the growing season begins

    Early spring yard tasks before the growing season begins

    — March 22, 2022

    It’s that time of year. Ready, set… and wait. The winter snows are all gone and any recent snows are not going to last long as we have more and more days above freezing temperatures….

  • Winter salt can damage landscape plants

    Winter salt can damage landscape plants

    — January 27, 2022

    Deicing salts are essential to winter travel in Illinois and provide necessary safety in a landscape setting by melting dangerous ice on precarious steps, sidewalks, entryways and other…

  • Use all space heaters  with extra care

    Use all space heaters with extra care

    — January 14, 2022

    Electric space heaters can help warm a room quickly. However, they can be as dangerous as convenient if used improperly. Safe Electricity urges everyone in the home to understand the…

  • ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Experts can tell old from new spatterware

    ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Experts can tell old from new spatterware

    — December 17, 2021

    It is easy to guess what this is — a rainbow spatterware water pitcher. But how old is it? Spatterware was first made in the late 1700s in England, but most found today dates from…

  • ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Value of some bottles can be jarring

    ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Value of some bottles can be jarring

    — March 20, 2022

    Bottle collecting has been an important pastime since the end of the 19th century, when the first bottle seekers dug up examples in old privy pits, the town dump or a rocky seacoast…

  • ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Company logos hold clues to product’s history

    ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Company logos hold clues to product’s history

    — January 16, 2022

    Company logos are a quick message to customers that identify a product on a store shelf or in an ad on TV explaining quality or improvements. Very few have been changed but many have…

  • ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Bell toys have a familiar ring

    ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING: Bell toys have a familiar ring

    — January 7, 2022

    Bell toys, a type of pull toy that had moving parts that rang a bell, were made in America just after the Civil War. The Gong Bell Co. of Connecticut made the first one. It was an iron…

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