Avani Kalra is an intern at the Tribune focusing on the environment and breaking news. She is a junior at Northwestern University, where she most recently served as the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. She has also covered breaking news in Atlanta and health in Wisconsin.
A four-year-old pedestrian was killed in an Avalon Park collision just hours before a second crash killed a 40-year-old male in Roger's Park Saturday night.
Industrial sites have historically been placed in lower-income neighborhoods, professor says. They also tend to have less green space and more asphalt.
After developing a technique to replace lungs damaged by COVID-19, Northwestern Medicine has now performed 40 successful transplants on cancer patients.