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Holly Jolly Gingerbread Party set at zoo The Women’s Board of Brookfield Zoo Chicago hosts its annual Holly Jolly Gingerbread Party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Discovery Center of the zoo. Attendees can put together a gingerbread house with help from professional gingerbread house buildings and decorators, visit with Santa and take a photo with a zoo animal ambassador. … [Read more...] about Community news: Gingerbread party at zoo, church concerts, Bob Hope exhibit and more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. It zipped harmlessly past Mars last month. Three NASA spacecraft on and near the … [Read more...] about NASA unveils close-up pictures of the 3I/Atlas comet popping by from another star

NEW ORLEANS — Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is … [Read more...] about DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, sources say

Jeffrey Tobolski, whose roughly decade in power as both mayor of McCook and as a member of the Cook County Board ended amid a massive federal corruption case, died Sunday, two months before he was scheduled to report to prison. Tobolski’s lawyer, James Vanzant, said his client died Sunday morning after a short illness. He did not have any additional details, he said. Tobolski … [Read more...] about Jeffrey Tobolski, ex-McCook mayor convicted in corruption case, dies months before prison term was to begin