“Build a Better World” is the summer reading theme at Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave. Giant balloon whiz Smarty Pants’ inventive show will follow that theme 11 a.m.-noon July 15 ...

It took two rooms to hold the gear for the six-member skydiving crew. One smelled sharp — the odor came from the pyrotechnics, explained Yulia Pangburg, one of the skydivers suiting up to jump over ...

Purdue's Society of Professional Engineers just broke their own world record, thanks to their 300-step, balloon-bursting Rube Goldberg machine. The 14-person team spent more than 5,000 hours over six ...

LAKE BARRINGTON, IL--(Marketwired - Jan 3, 2017) - CTI Industries Corporation (NASDAQ: CTIB), a manufacturer and marketer of foil balloons, vacuum sealing systems, latex balloons, printed and ...

STAMFORD -- Popping a balloon may seem like an easy task, but a group of Trinity Catholic Middle School's sixth-graders is celebrating their ability to take that tiny action and make it incredibly ...

Holiday parades marched along Cedar Rapids streets as early as 1916, when a Mother Goose parade sponsored by Killian's department store featured floats and Santa. The 1929 parade featured bands, ...

Human flight turns 222 years old on Monday. The hot air balloon was the first sustainable form of flight, with the first passengers, (a sheep, duck, and rooster) taking to the skies on September 19, ...

According to Google, more than half of the world's population is still without Internet access. One of Google's ambitious goals is to change that statistic. That's no easy task for several reasons, ...