Ilana Arougheti

Helena Kim with some of her restored Coach bags on Jan. 1, 2024, in her Chicago home.

For Chicago artist Helena Kim, restoring vintage leather is a lesson in self-care — and in going viral

January 7, 2024 at 11:56 p.m.

Most weekends at the Randolph Street Market, Helena Kim can be found with her head inside the lining of a vintage Coach purse. After finding and restoring more than 30,...

A pedestrian wears a mask while passing the Olson Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on Jan. 4, 2024.

Amid January flu and COVID season, some hospitals are asking patients to mask up again

January 5, 2024 at 9:09 p.m.

As flu season continues in Chicago, some hospitals are reinstating mask mandates. All three Rush hospitals — including Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park...

Passengers wait to board a Howard-bound CTA 'L" Red Line train at Roosevelt in the South Loop on Dec. 22, 2023.

Woman found beaten, unresponsive on CTA Red Line train overnight, cops say

January 4, 2024 at 6:54 p.m.

CTA employees discovered a woman unresponsive with apparent lacerations and trauma to her face on a train car overnight, Chicago police said. Shortly after 1:30 a.m., a woman was discovered...

Two detectives talk before approaching people standing outside a home in the 1800 block of South 48th Court on Jan. 3, 2024, in Cicero. Two women were fatally shot at the location Tuesday night.

After women are fatally shot in apparent Cicero domestic dispute, the alleged gunman is found dead and a baby is later hospitalized

January 4, 2024 at 1:41 a.m.

The slaying of two young mothers shot in a Cicero home Tuesday night, followed by the apparent suicide of the gunman, took a turn Wednesday morning when a baby first...

Angelica Rodriguez and Alfonso Arroyo are congratulated by Arroyo's cousins Griselda Delgado, far left, Sandra Delgado, center, and Yesenia Delgado after they got married at the Cook County clerk's office on Tuesday morning.

Meet Cook County’s first married couple of the year

December 12, 2024 at 7:09 p.m.

When Alfonso Arroyo sat down at a bus stop in March 2018, he had no idea he was about to meet his future wife. But the bus to Navy Pier...

Employees work at G2 Crowd, a peer-to-peer software review company, in Chicago on Sept. 12, 2016.

Some Chicago companies eyeing expansion are finding luck in Ireland

January 2, 2024 at 5:20 p.m.

In 2019, Chicago software company ActiveCampaign decided to open an office in Europe to be closer to international clients. The fast-growing startup did more than half its business internationally, and...

Man, 53, shot through window in Chicago’s 1st gun death of 2024

January 2, 2024 at 1:09 a.m.

Three people were shot in a home in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood early Monday, one critically and one fatally, after several shots were fired through their window. Police responded...

Dr. Sumanas Jordan, assistant professor of plastic surgery, and Dr. Lauren Beach, assistant professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, were both part of the workgroup on the legal X at Northwestern Medicine.

At Northwestern Medicine, nonbinary patients can now record their legal sex as ‘X’

January 2, 2024 at 9:43 p.m.

As a plastic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, Dr. Sumanas Jordan knows transgender and nonbinary patients can have unique needs. About half of her patients come in for gender-affirming surgeries, and...

The Slim Jim promotional vehicle was found on a transport truck outside a Holiday Inn Express in Hillside. Its custom wrap was damaged, but the car was found mostly operational, a Conagra spokesperson said.

Slim Jim promotional car stolen in California is recovered outside Hillside hotel

December 27, 2023 at 9:20 p.m.

A cross-country charcuterie con job came to a close Friday afternoon when a custom Slim Jim promotional car stolen in California was discovered outside of Chicago. Slim Jim, a Conagra...

An official investigates an apartment building in the 500 block of West Marquette Road in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood where a 5-year-old girl died during a fire on Dec. 26, 2023.

Girl, 5, dies in Englewood house fire

December 26, 2023 at 11:05 p.m.

A 5-year-old girl was killed in a house fire in Englewood early Tuesday morning, according to police and fire officials. Firefighters and police responded to a multifamily home in the...

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