News about veterans
If you would like to help, meet at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the south cemetery circle.
Midwest Veterans Closet will host a grocery giveaway May 10.
The National Champion American Legion Senior Band is hosting a concert on Sunday, June 2 to raise money to send its members to New Orleans in August to compete once again in the American Legion National Conference competition.
Bob Balayti volunteers his time to add a coat of paint to the Vietnam-era warbird on display at Dixon Veterans Memorial Park
Looking to bring it back to its former glory, Bob Balayti is volunteering his time to add a coat of paint to the Vietnam-era warbird on display at the Dixon Veterans Memorial Park.
The Lockport Township Clerk's office is hosting its fourth annual Community Fun Day on Saturday, May 18.
From paramedic to medical school to the military, Dr. Gregory Conrad and clinical nurse Randa Melms, also a military veteran, use their field skills to help triage at Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb.
DeKalb area veterans gave a special birthday salute to one of their own, Myrtle Annetta Lusiak, who served in World War II and turned 107 this week at her home in Aperion Care assisted living facility.
The Village of New Lenox will host the 44th annual Loyalty Day Parade on Sunday, May 5 starting at 2 p.m.
Policies and procedures have been implemented by the Illinois Veterans’ Home in La Salle “out of an abundance of caution,” following possible cases of an infectious disease, an Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs spokesperson said.
Court proceedings will move forward for 32 families who lost loved ones in the COVID-19 outbreak at the state-run La Salle Veterans’ Home in November 2020.
The annual election of officers was held during the April meeting of American Legion Post 328 in Morrison.
The initiative that got an Army met from Island Lake a new roof is through the Owens Corning Foundation's Roof Deployment Project and Feldco.
The Soldier Songs and Voices nonprofit organization “provides free instruments and songwriting lessons to veterans as a form of post-conflict care,” according to its website.
A retreat attended by many Crystal Lake veterans over the years where first responders and military veterans and their families share stories only they can understand is scheduled for Sunday, May 19, at Bellarmine’s Jesuit Retreat House in Barrington.