It was a typical Saturday on the Amtrak train heading from Kansas City to Chicago. Michael Case, 46, of Homewood was the conductor. The date was May 19, 2017. One older male passenger seemed “discombobulated,” Case later reported. The passenger, Edward Klein, had tried to enter private sleeping quarters and asked where he could find […]
When Elaine retired in her seventies, she and her husband, Ernie, lived in their home on a tree-lined street across from a grade school. The sight and sounds of the children playing on the playground brought joy to their lives. Elaine had filled the front yard with beds of tulips and daffodils, garden gnomes, and […]
If you love tomatoes on the vine, you probably love summer when fresh tomatoes are plentiful. Now, thanks to hydroponic methods, you can get locally grown vine-ripened tomatoes all year round. One hydroponic farming operation is located in Rochelle, Illinois. According to an article in the February 12, 2018 issue of The Beacon-News, “the glass-enclosed […]
In 1975, the $4 billion Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP), better known as “The Deep Tunnel,” was begun. The goal was to reduce water pollution and sewer-backup problems in fifty-two municipalities in Cook County. It involved the construction of 109 miles of tunnels nine to thirty-three feet in diameter excavated from dolomite limestone bedrock as […]
If you live in Chicago or the collar counties, you are probably accustomed to the huge number of shootings or homicides that occur in the city. Now another crime, carjacking, has surged to its highest numbers in at least ten years, according to a Chicago Tribune article printed December 29, 2017. Although the vast number […]