by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Nov 5, 2018
Question: How does a city install a permanent valve or a temporary line-stop in a water pipe without shutting down the whole system? Answer: Very carefully. And very fast, or businesses and voters will let the city know. Advanced Valve Technologies of Elk Grove has...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Nov 5, 2018
Can healthy eaters find happiness in a vending machine that serves up a jar of mozzarella, tomatoes, spinach and house-made basil pesto hummus on multigrain 1979 bread from Publican Quality Bread? The answer clearly is yes, and they wash it down with a La Colombe...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Nov 5, 2018
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center dramatizes the museum’s mission with forceful imagery: “Remember the past, transform the future.” The past is right there on the stage of a specially built theater at the Skokie museum as a Holocaust survivor sits...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Nov 5, 2018
Like a precocious child, SitterCity has grown beyond its 2001 birth year, and discovered a new talent: babysitters on demand. Finding a regular babysitter is stressful enough. But finding a babysitter when your regular babysitter cancels and you have tickets to...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Nov 5, 2018
South suburban-based Sterling can’t make construction equipment walk on water, but its TerraLam work platforms can make equipment more effective on land. Sterling’s TerraLam mats are built with multiple layers of kiln-dried, southern yellow pine, stacked in...
