Events

Ghostly legends surround this small town in Illinois.

This Indiana city completely transforms into a Christmas wonderland complete with a Christmas light train ride.

If your home is anything like ours, the four-legged moochers that live there will certainly be hanging around the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day. There are lots of things that you shouldn't let your pet eat, but luckily, there are a few things that you can safely share...assuming you want to.

I know, you're hoping to read that prices for your favorite items in a Thanksgiving dinner have fallen to levels that we've never seen before. I was hoping to write that, too. However, that's not the case this year, even if some of the items are cheaper than they were last Thanksgiving.

We can never thank Illinois' veterans and their families enough for their service and sacrifices, but a bunch of Illinois restaurants are doing the next best thing by offering up free meals to them on Veterans Day.

It would be nice to shake the hand of each and every veteran in Illinois on Veterans Day. Assuming that you could do that, how many hands do you think you'd be shaking that day here in Illinois?

I realize that I'm posting this information the day before Halloween, but I thought maybe you'd rather have the shipping schedules early, rather than scramble to find them when the holidays are fast approaching.

It's been getting darker earlier and earlier, which means that it's finally time to engage in the activity that nearly everyone hates this weekend: changing your clocks one hour. Granted, it's worse when we "Spring Forward" and lose an hour, but "Falling Back" is pretty much looked at as being a pain, too.

We've been dealing with some fairly decent weather in Northern Illinois lately, which will probably make the temperatures and weather conditions we're looking at for Halloween seem a lot colder than they actually are. Then, there's the prospect of snow...

Discover Evansville Halloween events and family-friendly trick-or-treat fun in our comprehensive guide. Free festivities for kids and more!