Viewpoints

I hate to be the one to point out that summer is starting to draw to a close...but it is. Soon, you'll start wondering about which day we "fall back," so I thought we'd give you an early heads up on the exact day to turn your clocks back an hour.

With so many different ways to have food delivered to wherever you may be today, more and more people in Illinois and around the world are opting to order food for delivery---and it's costing us some real money. Have you ever calculated how much you spend on food delivery on an annual basis?

Here in Illinois, we deal with these bugs mainly in the Spring and again in the Fall...but sometimes in the winter when they've broken into our homes. Here are some things you may not know about Illinois stink bugs, like for example, how many different types we have in this state.

Maybe you're a goody two-shoes who never, ever lets a curse word slip past your lips--or maybe you're like most of the people I know, and have a favorite go-to expletive for any and every situation.

Checking out the food at roughly 100,000 Italian restaurants across the country to come up with the best one in each state was probably pretty tough work, but someone had to do it.

Sure, we've had cicadas around here before, but next May will bring tens of millions of them out of the ground here in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, as Brood XIII cicadas emerge with numbers as high as 1.5 million cicadas per acre!

We've probably all heard that Illinois is only behind New York in the list of states that people are leaving the fastest, so let's take a look at why those who have left or are leaving decided to move out of the Land of Lincoln.

I know, you're probably thinking that winter in Illinois is basically the same every year. Some snow, some cold, some more snow, some really cold weather, then Spring arrives, then we get more snow, etc. While it's true that Illinois winters have all of those elements, let's take a look and see if the winter of 2023-2024 will be any different than last year.

With over 150,000 wild turkeys in the state and populations in every one of Illinois' 102 counties, there's no shortage of these wandering, noisy birds around here.

All kids are different, and so are the states that they live in when it comes to the age that it's okay to leave a kid home by themselves. Here in Illinois...well, let's put it this way: Kevin McAllister's parents in the movie Home Alone would probably be in an Illinois jail for leaving him behind when they went to Paris.