Alison Bowen

Alison Bowen is a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Eve Poczatek, directora del Centro de Bienestar Clínico, reparte bebidas mientras los trabajadores de la salud eligen refrigerios del carrito de bienestar el 19 de enero de 2022 en el Centro Médico de la Universidad Rush.

Primero fue pizza y aplausos. Ahora, hospitales buscan soluciones fijas para apoyar a trabajadores agotados

March 17, 2022 at 10:42 a.m.

Los trabajadores de la salud pueden agotarse incluso al hablar de agotamiento. El Dr. Vivek Cherian, médico internista en Chicago, dijo que es una conversación que ha tenido una y...

Kayode Martin, centro, participa en una sesión grupal de salud conductual el miércoles 2 de marzo de 2022 con el administrador de casos Rafiq Green, izquierda, en una instalación de Inner-City Muslim Action Network en Chicago.

En una pandemia, la gente necesita cosas inmediatas. Pero, ¿cómo ayudarlos para saber que también necesitan terapia?

March 10, 2022 at 10:54 a.m.

A medida que avanzaba la pandemia, Kayode Martin se sentía atascado. Se había graduado virtualmente: estaba en el último año de la escuela secundaria cuando el COVID-19 llegó a Chicago....

Eve Poczatek, director of the Center for Clinical Wellness, hands out drinks while health care workers choose snacks from the wellness cart, Jan. 19, 2022 at Rush University Medical Center.

First it was pizza and nightly applause. Now, hospitals look at longer-term solutions to support exhausted health care workers

March 8, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

Health care workers may even be burned out by talking about burnout. Dr. Vivek Cherian, an internal medicine doctor in Chicago, said it's a conversation he's had time and time...

Kayode Martin during a group session, March 2, 2022, with case manager Rafiq Green at an Inner-City Muslim Action Network facility in Chicago.

In a pandemic, people might know they need food or housing. But how do you help them realize they also need therapy?

March 4, 2022 at 2:58 p.m.

As the pandemic wore on, Kayode Martin felt stuck. He'd graduated virtually, a high school senior when COVID-19 arrived in Chicago. A year later, in 2021, he was working at...

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Omicron takes over 100% of tracked Illinois cases. Here’s your guide to the Greek alphabet of COVID variants.

March 3, 2022 at 11:42 a.m.

First, many called it simply the coronavirus, then COVID or COVID-19. Now, we are keeping track of descriptors like alpha, beta and gamma, the variants of COVID-19. The World Health...

Protesters against the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Chicago, here’s how to help Ukraine

March 3, 2022 at 5:07 p.m.

Marta Farion received a call from a friend in Ukraine on Tuesday, asking her how she was helping the embattled country from Chicago. Her friend, a veteran in Ukraine who...

Cheryl Cook, known as Cookie, outside the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building on Jan. 31, 2022. Cook has been a court illustrator since the 1980s in Chicago.

Women once dominated the field of court artists in Chicago. Now, only 1 remains: Cheryl Cook.

February 24, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Her job is to survey the intricacies of human nature. And then, she draws them. Perhaps one lawyer waves his hands a lot; another might place hers on a desk....

Brian Wallach y su esposa, Sandra Abrevaya, juntos en el sofá de su casa.

Para ayudar a pacientes como él, el ex miembro del personal de Obama ayuda a aprobar una ley para que los pacientes con ELA tengan acceso más rápido a medicamentos

February 23, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

Brian Wallach sólo puede mover dos dedos, pero eso no le impide usar su voz. Sin cesar, desgrana misivas sobre por qué los pacientes de ELA, o esclerosis lateral amiotrófica,...

With fans reaching for a touch, the Bulls' Michael Jordan steps into the spotlight as he's introduced at the teams' fifth NBA championships ring ceremony at the United Center in 1997,

‘There it was.’ Ultra-rare ticket to Michael Jordan’s NBA debut spent decades in man’s memorabilia collection, and now it’s setting auction records

February 23, 2022 at 8:58 a.m.

For decades, the ticket had been loose in a folder, within a box moved from home to home, with a piece of yellow tape and the label "Mike Memories." Inside...

Brian Wallach and his wife, Sandra Abrevaya, sit on their couch together at their home.

To help patients like him, former Obama staffer helps pass law for ALS patients to get quicker access to drugs

February 23, 2022 at 3:44 p.m.

Brian Wallach can only move two fingers, but that's not stopping him from using his voice. Steadily, he taps out missives on why patients of ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,...

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