Seventh-grader Emily Eglar shows her softball shade for catchers' masks Thursday at the Invention Convention at Cardinal Joseph Bernardin School in Orland Hills. (Joseph P. Meier/SouthtownStar)
Hundreds of families filled the Life Parish Center at Cardinal Joseph Bernardin School in Palos Hills to see the fruits of a seven-month project that asked students to create inventions. A band of seventh-grade girls swept the top prizes at the school's seventh annual convention Thursday night.
A former nursing home that seemed to give the village of Evergreen Park
nothing but headaches is now being used for training police officers and firefighters.
Bella is dead. Riverdale police say they shot her and dumped her body on top of a compost pile near the village's public works garage. But two days later, the body was gone. Man's best friend deserves a better fate.
The Dallas Stars -- and their goaltender, Marty Turco, in particular -- had been brutal against the Blackhawks, especially at American Airlines Center. The Hawks were 1-8-2 with one tie on the Stars' home ice since 2001-02, and Turco owned a 14-2-1 career record against the Hawks going into the second game of the Hawks' six-game road trip Thursday night.
With great pay come great expectations, so it's difficult to get as worked up about defensive end Mark Anderson's struggles this season as it is some of the Bears who went through the Jerry Angelo cash reward program in the offseason.
After the Bulls' embarrassing 116-74 loss Wednesday to the Portland
Trail Blazers, I was curious to see how rookie coach Vinny Del Negro
would react the next day. I didn't have to wait long for an answer.
Robert Mechielsen, who designs environmentally friendly homes, is only half joking when he says many of the best green home solutions available to homeowners hail from the 18th century.
In late October, after years of dreaming and waiting for the right time, Anne Aboushousha opened Sweet Annie's, the first Flossmoor bakery in almost a decade.
You take trivia answers that call for rapid-fire questions. You take a jumbo roulette wheel and the letters of the alphabet. What you've got are "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune," TV's reigning syndicated shows for a quarter-century.