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Lin Kautz works on an watercolor painting during a group outing with The Center's plein air art program. Thursday, June 6, 2019, at Lake Katherine in Palos Heights.

The Center’s ‘plein air’ field trips invite artists to work outdoors, on location

June 11, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

It's hard to say which is lovelier, the landscape budding with irises and peonies or the artists seated among the blooms, capturing their interpretations on sketchpads. It is late on...

Glenn Tallar plays a Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Beggars Pizza in Lansing, Ill. The location once was a movie theater.

Pies and the piper: Diners at Lansing pizzeria treated to tunes from 92-year-old theater organ twice a week

June 7, 2019 at 8:56 a.m.

Sausage? Pepperoni? Half "Chattanooga Choo Choo," half "Tale as Old as Time"? There's magic happening inside the Beggars Pizza in Lansing and it goes beyond turning tomatoes and cheese into...

As children born in the year of 9/11 come of age, their parents describe efforts to create a better world

June 6, 2019 at 8:37 a.m.

The babies born in the year of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are turning 18. They entered the world during one of our nation's darkest chapters, bringing what their parents...

A board with instructions of what a person should do in a drowning situation was shown recently to students at Washington Park in Michigan City.

Just because you know how to swim doesn’t mean you know how to survive drowning

June 4, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

As pool and beach season gets underway safety experts remind water lovers not to have a false sense of security because a lifeguard is on duty or because they know...

This photo, supplied by Random House, shows Lisa See, author of "The Island of Sea Women" and "Peony In Love," who the Palos Heights Public Library will present at Trinity Christian College's Ozinga Chapel June 25.

Palos Heights Library presents an evening with best-selling author Lisa See

June 2, 2019 at 8:57 a.m.

Reading can transport people to other times and new places. And sometimes avid readers are so grateful for a lifetime of such journeys that they pay the opportunity forward through...

The pursuit of friendship for adults often begins with online apps and meetup groups.

New mom’s struggle for real friends in a virtual world a common challenge

May 29, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

New to the area, Jill da Silva is still searching for friends. "My family and I moved to the area and still haven't found a group of friends," she wrote...

Holden Jasudowicz, 12, and his father David started a seasonal business cleaning and beautifying grave markers.

Oak Lawn father-and-son team meet need for those who’ve lost loved ones with grave-cleaning business

May 26, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.

It's late afternoon on a Tuesday and 12-year-old Holden Jasudowicz and his dad are scrubbing the top of a grave marker at St. Casimir Cemetery. Holden has already edged around...

Mother McAuley student chosen ‘best actress’ in Illinois heads to New York for national competition

May 24, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

It was her rendition of "Betty" in "White Christmas" last November that propelled her to the top of the acting world. Maggie Reed, a junior at Mother McAuley High School...

A foster kid turned foster parent, St. Xavier commencement speaker returned to school to set an example

May 23, 2019 at 1:01 p.m.

If you want to know what it's like to be a foster kid or a foster parent, ask Ron Guhl. He's been both. Though Guhl has always been open about...

After decades of pursuing her degree, 84-year-old Bolingbrook grandmother graduates from JJC

May 21, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

A downside to enjoying the journey is that sometimes the journey has to end. And everyone asks what you'll do next. For 84-year-old Shirley Crowell, the journey to an associate's...

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