Ditka putting name on Polish sausage

More Frank Mathie Features

• Best friends met 95 years ago on North Side
• October 1, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Alice Jensen and Irene Cook were both born in 1913 on Chicago's North Side, 100 years ago. They became best friends at age 5 and they are still best friends today.
• Goats hired by Naperville park to devour weeds
• September 25, 2013 (NAPERVILLE) - Are the weeds out of control in your yard or your neighbor's yard? You just might need a herd of goats.
• Skokie apple grower has 178 varieties in back yard
• September 24, 2013 (SKOKIE, Ill.) - The apple harvest is in, and this fall it's a bumper crop.
• Chicago photographer focuses on big picture
• September 18, 2013 (CHICAGO) - In a world of smaller and smaller digital cameras, Dennis Manarchy is thinking big. Really big. He uses a 35-foot long camera to shift the focus on those less photographed.
• Rare baby black rhino makes Lincoln Park Zoo debut
• September 17, 2013 (CHICAGO) - His name is King, and at Lincoln Park Zoo, he is royalty.
• Anna Dominguez uses adhesive tape to create art
• August 28, 2013 (CHICAGO) - In an apartment once occupied by Ernest Hemingway, Anna Dominguez, 26, is fulfilling her talent, living her dream and making a living as an artist.
• Scientists breeding nearly-extinct butterflies
• August 27, 2013 (CHICAGO) - In a small laboratory a six-year project to save an endangered species, an extremely rare creature called the swamp metalmark is just about to make a comeback.
• Summer weather makes a comeback
• August 20, 2013 (CHICAGO) - The hot temperatures and high humidity made it a perfect day to do absolutely nothing.
• Highwood's third annual Garlic Festival
• August 14, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Final preparations made to gear up for Highwood's third annual Garlic Festival
• Harvard farm claims it developed sweetest corn
• August 13, 2013 (HARVARD, Ill.) - Whose corn is the sweetest? ABC7's Frank Mathie says the answer is at a farm in Harvard, Illinois.
• Rare orange monkey born at Lincoln Park Zoo
• July 30, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Little Pierre weighs only about a pound, but already he is becoming a big star at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
• Why do Americans rally around royal baby boy?
• July 23, 2013 (CHICAGO) - The newest prince of England was introduced around the world, and many in the United States of America are cheering. Why?

• To undershirt or not to undershirt?
• Blanding's turtles may - slowly - grow in the wild
• Brookfield Zoo welcomes newborn giraffe
• Blackhawks 'superfan' attends 2,000 straight home games
• Great Lakes fish go on display at Shedd Aquarium
• Museum of Science and Industry marks 80th birthday
• Supermen swarm Sears HQ, set world record
• Bridgeport Bed and Breakfast neighbor to Sox Park
• Grill detail cleans up for cookouts
• 'Forest' the dog captured after months in woods
• 'Drutter' replaces golf clubs, spares golfers' back pain
• Rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel up for auction
• Theatre stages dusk to dawn Shakespeare
• Photos capture melting Fulton Market Cold Storage building
• Boston bombing renews 'resolve' of runners
• Field Museum gets meteorites from Russia
• Animatronic dinosaurs roam Brookfield Zoo
• Street sign honors soldier killed in Iraq
• Want to write in Hemingway's Oak Park home? Here's your chance
• Barber's job saved his life at Auschwitz
• Stone Age uncovered at Field Museum
• Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
• Irish Eyes smile, vote on Chicago's St Patrick's Day
• 'Creatures of Light' on exhibit at Field Museum
• Ode to a Snow Blower
• Mary Magdalene shin bone on Ill. tour
• Rapping pastor preaches religion with rhyme
• Takin babies all the talk at LP Zoo
• Paczki Day in Chicago
• 'Little bum' makes homeless feel at home