Meredith Rodriguez

Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowksy, with Mt. Everest Restaurant owner Ramakant Kharel, blue shirt, talk May 3, 2015, during a fundraising event at the Evanston restaurant. Kharel is also the vice president of the Nepali American Center.

Chicago’s Nepalese working toward $75,000 quake aid relief goal

August 19, 2019 at 12:25 a.m.

Chicago's Nepalese community held a fundraiser Sunday as part of a broader campaign to raise $75,000 this month to aid rebuilding efforts after a recent earthquake that killed thousands and...

Paramedics from the Ottawa Fire Department and Illinois Conservation Police Officer Phil Wire assist a 21-year-old woman after she fell 20 feet off a ledge at Buffalo Rock State Park in Ottawa on April 28, 2015.

Falls at Starved Rock, Buffalo Rock underscore danger of off-trail hiking

August 19, 2019 at 12:23 a.m.

When Illinois Conservation Police Officer Phil Wire arrived Tuesday at a rock quarry at Buffalo Rock State Park, where a 21-year-old woman had fallen, he could tell how far she...

Chicago’s Nepalese community begins fundraising efforts

August 19, 2019 at 12:21 a.m.

As many Chicagoans from Nepal continue to struggle to get in touch with family and friends caught in a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake there, members of the local Nepali community gathered...

Immigrants’ lives on hold while they wait for administrative relief to return

August 19, 2019 at 12:21 a.m.

On a recent Tuesday evening, several dozen volunteers met at the Resurrection Project, an immigrant rights advocacy organization in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, to learn how to file freedom of information...

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich leaves Holy Name Cathedral after the funeral Mass for Cardinal Francis George on April 23, 2015.

Understated funeral reflects nature of Cardinal Francis George

August 19, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

It was a traditional Roman Catholic funeral Mass, plain and simple, just like the man so many came to mourn. The understated pageantry suited Cardinal Francis George, Chicago's native son,...

Proposed Rauner budget cuts kidney transplants for undocumented immigrants

August 19, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

Activists held hunger strikes for years and doctors lobbied the state General Assembly before Illinois allowed undocumented immigrants to acquire state-funded kidney transplants last year, a program that is set...

Cook County state's attorney Anita Alvarez speaks to the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board today about the way Cook County will change the way it prosecutes low-level drug offenses, including dismissal of misdemeanor marijuana cases.

Alvarez proposes steering minor drug offenders to treatment

May 25, 2019 at 5:56 p.m.

Low-level drug cases have crowded Cook County courts for years, inflating one of the largest criminal justice systems in the country with costly prosecutions that have done little to stem...

Heirs to Holocaust victims sue France’s railway in Chicago federal court

May 23, 2019 at 12:47 a.m.

A federal lawsuit by a suburban Chicago descendant of Holocaust victims alleged the French national railway confiscated property and belongings from tens of thousands of Jews and other "undesirables" sent...

Daniel Netzel and Steve Skupien repaint the original black Roman numeral clocks at Macy's at the intersection of State and Randolph streets in downtown Chicago on April 15, 2015.

Clocks on State Street store getting paint job and polish

May 23, 2019 at 12:46 a.m.

The two iconic cast bronze clocks that hang on what once was Marshall Field's on State Street were getting a long overdue makeover Wednesday morning. At the corners of Washington...

Chicago canine influenza epidemic traced to Asian strain

August 19, 2019 at 12:14 a.m.

Hunter, a fox red Labrador retriever, spent 10 days at a North Side boarding facility earlier this month while Alicia Fitzgerald was on vacation. When Fitzgerald returned to pick up...

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