Come Out For The 1st Day of Spring! A Gardener & Volunteer General Interest Meeting & Seed Starting Workshop for all those interested in Blue Island community gardening will be held on Weds, March 20, 6:30-8:30p Centennial Park Fieldhouse 1732 Vermont St Come see what Blue Island has to grow! You will have the opportunity to • register for a …

Watch The Bungalow Chef and Kevin’ O’Connor from the PBS Series, “Ask this Old House.” Now in its 11th season, This buy steroids Old House helped Mike Mech renovate the kitchen in his 1926 Chicago-style bungalow! Tune in and see what the two of them cook up! Mike’s “Bungalow Chef” vintage culinary series is also featured, filmed right from his …

Some monks want to buy you a beer. And they want to perform charitable work. A divine hand has guided them to Blue Island and the Cal-Sag Trail. March 9, 6-9 PM at Blue Island’s Rock Island Public House (RIPH) the monastic brewers of La Trappe will buy 40 patrons a round of its trappist beer, first come/first served. The beers will be served in traditional chalices, …

Author Cynthia Ogorek will be discussing her latest book, “Along the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Rail Line” of the Images of America series. From a world-class city through rolling agricultural acres, from steel mills through a national lakeshore, some 200 vintage photographs illustrate the unique view of the Calumet region that South Shore passengers have traditionally enjoyed, click …