This coming Saturday, September 3rd, more than 3,000 theaters across the US, including chains like Rockford and Machesney Park's AMC, are going to offer discounted $3 tickets in celebration of a new "National Cinema Day."
It's been a pretty interesting month of August when it comes things like meteor showers and super moons--but the best may be yet to come, and it may happen as early as tonight in the skies over Northern Illinois.
For those skywatchers keeping score at home, the fourth and final super moon of 2022, known as the Sturgeon Moon, will happen this Thursday, August 11th, at around 8:36pm local time.
One of the very coolest things about the Perseid Meteor Showers is that in addition to being one of the most popular meteor showers of the year, the Perseids hang around for almost a month and a half.
The Illinois Family Relief Plan kicked off on July 1st, and taxes on several essentials have been or will be paused. Illinoisans have gotten a suspension of state tax on groceries for one year, a very temporary delay of a scheduled gas tax increase, direct checks for some families, the earned income tax credit, along with the doubling of property tax rebates.
I usually try to give you a few days notice of celestial happenings like this one, but somehow Wednesday's supermoon occurrence completely slipped past my attention. Just so it doesn't slip your mind too, you might want to go ahead and set your alarm to go off a bit earlier than normal tomorrow morning.
Okay, so it's hot. Really hot. Don't-screw-around-with-the-heat-or-you-could-have-a-big-problem hot. So hot that cities that care about their community's well-being are doing something about it.