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This weightlifting workout in your 60s can preserve strength for years

Doing heavy weightlifting targeting your legs in your 60s has been shown to reap health benefits, even years later.

Animals placed with foster families while shelter deals with flood

How to protect your kids from gaming disorder

Keeping invaders at bay: Battle to protect Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes from invasive species paying off

How to navigate the end of your pet’s life

As COVID-19 ticks up in some places, U.S. health officials recommend a fall vaccination campaign

D1 Training, a fitness facility that specializes in group classes for young athletes, opened this month at 71 W. Rand Road in Arlington Heights.

Athletic training gym for kids as young as age 7 expands in suburbs

The positive results of improved strength and stamina in their own children is what motivated an Aurora couple to become franchisees in a new athletic training gym in Arlington Heights.

The Rev. Jesus Puentes gives Communion during a Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines on Thursday. The special ceremony was part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage visiting the Chicago area this weekend.

Des Plaines shrine welcomes national pilgrimage with special Mass

A few hundred members of the Catholic faithful gathered Thursday at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines for a special Mass held as part of a national pilgr...

Many suburban homeowners and gardeners are noticing earwigs coming out in full force this summer, but entomologists say the nocturnal bugs are not more prevalent this year than others. They’re just more noticeable because they prefer damp areas and have been trying to beat the heat this summer.

Earwig invasion? Here’s what you can do

When Jessica Sefton started seeing chunks taken out of the leaves and flowers in her Buffalo Grove garden, she didn’t know what to think. As much as she searched, Sefton ...

Chris Bozonelos, left, and Chris Figaro, co-owners of Mrs. P. & Me in Mount Prospect, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the current ownership.

‘You feel like family’: Mount Prospect’s Mrs. P & Me celebrates milestone

Mount Prospect officials paid tribute this week to Mrs. P & Me, the bar and restaurant that’s been a downtown mainstay for more than a century and this year is celebrating its 20th anniversary under its current owners.

Miss Jamie of Miss Jamie’s Farm introduces a toy cow to the crowd during the Tots in the Park event Friday at the Alcott Center in Buffalo Grove.

Miss Jamie’s Farm delights Tots in the Park attendees

Miss Jamie of Miss Jamie’s Farm delighted the crowd during a Tots in the Park event on Friday at the Alcott Center in Buffalo Grove.

Eli Klinghofer of Lincolnwood enjoys rolling along with tandem captain and Out Our Front Door volunteer Joseph Brignon at Skokie's Youth Unbound Camp in 2022.

Along for the Ride: How adaptive biking enriches the lives of people with disabilities

Two Chicago-based nonprofits with suburban connections — Out Our Front Door and Envision Unlimited — are pioneering adaptive biking to deliver outdoor experiences, seemingly unattainable not long ago, to individuals with special needs.

Clint and Brook Carey are the owners of The Milk House in Pingree Grove.

A scoop of nostalgia: The Milk House turns memories into unique ice cream flavors

The Milk House ice cream shop in Pingree Grove is an Illinois “Maker” inducted into the Illinois Office of Tourism’s “Illinois Made” program featuring artisans, experiences and products unique to the state.