Category Archives: Brian Peck's Blog

Looking to move elsewhere in Illinois? Money Magazine recommends Wheaton. In their yearly article that ranks the best places to live in the U.S., DuPage County’s Wheaton, Illinois topped the lis...

Just a 30 minute trip out of Chicago and you’ll arrive at the brand new Mascot Hall of Fame in Whiting, Indiana. The museum pays tribute to the many mascots that represented their hometown sport...

How else are you supposed to get a book into astronauts’ hands? Libertyville author, Suzanne Slade, will see her children’s book, Astronaut Annie, break through the stratosphere on its way...

Christmas tree sales in 2018 are up from last year, due to one group you may or may not expect to be interested in real trees– millennials. Tim O'Connor, executive director of the National Chris...

Photo by James Wheeler on Unsplash Nothing is quite as festive as putting up all of the Christmas lights, but how many lights would you have to have to see your house from space? University of Leicest...

It’s not Christmas until I’ve heard “I’m Hardrock, I’m Coco, I’m Joooooooe.” If you didn’t see that classic when it originally aired, you may have seen ...

Photo by Nicole De Khors from BurstA survey asked 2,000 people why they've regifted stuff in the past. The poll people found 46% of us wish we could just pick out our own Christmas gifts, so we’...

Santa’s reindeer may only work 1 day per year, but they work really, really hard for that period of time. SPANA, a company that provides free veterinary treatment to working animals in developin...

Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, John Ford, Blake Edwards, Sam Fuller, D.A. Pennebaker, George Cukor, James L. Brooks and Ang Lee films are among the latest bunch of ...

People who are nervous fliers have all kinds of tactics they use to try to get through a flight as calmly as they can, and now those traveling on American Airlines at Australia’s Sydney Airport ...