Chicago Botanic Garden celebrates springtime blooms
Spring is in its full glory at the Chicago Botanic Garden as more than a million blooms are unfurling one after the other each in their own time. Though the...
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T-rex and friends are ready to greet visitors at new Jurassic Gardens on Volo Auto Museum grounds
The latest attraction at the Volo Auto Museum is not a car — but a dinosaur, actually dozens of animatronic dinosaurs including a 30-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex and a 35-foot tall...
Outdoor Lakefront Biergarten reopens in Winthrop Harbor April 30
Within a few years of trying their homemade brews out on friends, Kyle Wenzel of Winthrop Harbor and Joe Van Heirseele of Gurnee opened a tap room and brewery, Harbor...
Community performers get creative for virtual Fear No Art
For last year's Fear No Art, College of Lake County students and community members took on the challenge of creating virtual art during the pandemic. "It went so well that...
Virtual Maker Faire features creators of robots, 3D printers and more: ‘Making things makes me phenomenally happy’
Daniel Power remembers the first thing he made with a 3D printer. It was a simple ball. These days, he's making 3D printers out of 3D printers, and a whole...
Outdoors column: Think yellow on Earth Day
For Earth Day, which is April 22 this year, I will focus on the color yellow. Why yellow, instead of green? Because yellow is all over the neighborhood. Daffodils are...
Singer/songwriter goes back to the circus with his new album
Kerry Patrick Clark admits the past year with the pandemic and political upheaval made him want to escape to the circus. That made him think of the first song he...
Outdoors column: It’s loon season on the lakes
On a cool, foggy, damp spring morning, a loon yodeled. The sound floated through the mist, causing me to pause in disbelief. Then it yodeled again. And one more time....
Neil Diamond tribute to be shown virtually through James Lumber Center
When he was in high school, Robert Neary would sing, "Hello Again," the song Neil Diamond made famous in "The Jazz Singer," to a girlfriend — "or maybe two," as...
Lake County’s public art program features work by local women
Even before she hung the last painting on the walls of the Lake County administration building, artist Katrina Davis-Salazar said she was receiving thanks and answering questions. A Gurnee-based artist,...