Susan DeGrane

Gold Star mother Modie Lavin of Chicago's Beverly neighborhood is leading an effort this June, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month, to help veterans heal from their war experiences and move...

Last year, in response to the pandemic, community organizations started staging live outdoor music concerts on the porches of area homes. The free events were enthusiastically attended by people itching...

Once word got out about the annual celebration of Beaubien Woods, it became an early summer destination. In 2018, the Beaubien Woods Celebration attracted 150 participants, according to Stacina Stagner,...

Around 5:30 p.m. on a recent Thursday evening, dance classes were kicking into high gear at Innervisions Performing Arts Center Dance Studio in Frankfort. Several mothers and one dad decided...

The downward spiral of family farms lost to large corporate agricultural operations may be turning around as family farming takes on a new twist. On what was once a 65-acre...

Monarch butterflies hold a certain fascination. Before undergoing metamorphosis from yellow, white and black-ringed caterpillars to orange and black butterflies, they hang from milkweed plants in gemlike green chrysalides literally...

When the pandemic struck last March, Donna Collins, 60, of Evergreen Park, lost her job as a server at a steakhouse in Chicago Ridge. Not ready to retire, she began...