The “Bloomingdale Trail” will connect six new parks, four of which have been completed. The entire park and trail system is named the “606,” after the first three digits of city zip codes. “People are really clamoring to get up there,” said Beth White, director of the Chicago regional office of the Trust for Public Land, a non-profit conservation group which has led efforts to fund the project.
On June 6, 1944, about 150,000 troops stormed the beaches of France in the epic D-Day invasion that proved pivotal to the Allied war effort. But how did the idea originate and how did the Allies pull off such a huge task?
BOSTON (AP) — A woman bleeding from the head was carried out of the Fenway Park stands after being hit by a broken bat Friday night, and police said her injuries were life threatening.
Two of the daughters in TLC’s reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” told Fox News on Friday that they had forgiven their brother Josh Duggar for molesting them in the past, but said they felt ‘revictimized’ in recent weeks by the media outlets that have dredged up the juvenile offenses. Jill Dillard, 24, and Jessa Seewald, 22, told “The Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly that they weren’t initially aware of
By Morag MacKinnon PERTH (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned. In a speech to an international forum of nations that works to fight the spread of such weapons, Bishop said the rise of militant groups such as ISIS, also known as Daish, posed “one of
By Paul Carrel and Michelle Martin GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Protesters clashed with police in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday as thousands demonstrated against a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) leaders that starts on Sunday at a nearby luxury hotel. Police vastly outnumbered the marchers in the picturesque former winter Olympic games venue at the foot of Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze. Playing drums, tambourines and
The essential lessons every yogi should learn.By Alison Feller, SELF I have always been a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie. I was a competitive dancer through college, and once I got hooked on running and Spinning I was all cardio, all the time. But yoga? Never.Then one night, just a few years ago, I was running late and missed my Spin class….
By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Children as young as six are fleeing political unrest in Burundi, travelling for days on foot without their parents and arriving in “unprecedented numbers” in refugee camps, Save the Children said on Saturday. Many parents are staying behind to protect their homes from looting and possible destruction in Burundi’s worst crisis since its ethnically charged civil war in 2005, while sending their
South Korea on Saturday confirmed nine more cases of the MERS virus, which has killed four people, but said it did not represent a spread of the outbreak as the infected were already in quarantine. “Our response to the outbreak was made in accordance with the existing manual, but there were shortcomings in the initial response,” she was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — American Samoa’s only dialysis clinic has reopened after a product recall forced it to close for two days.