Ofelia Casillas: I found faith at a Chicago food pantry
To me, the food pantry isn’t a religious place. But increasingly, it is holy.
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From Cuba to America, as immigrants
My father came to this country in the trunk of a car. That's a sentence I've said many times in my 35 years. I've said it when someone I cared...
A home for Jojo
Linda Jackson had seen pictures of the disease, and the images scared her. Children born with harlequin ichthyosis were covered with patchy, peeling red skin; their mouths pulled open in...
Serving time foils learning
If educating troubled youths is difficult in Chicago Public Schools, it is even tougher inside the state's youth prisons, where resources have long been scarce and progress slow. In the...
H1N1 vaccine in short supply
As President Barack Obama declared swine flu a national emergency Saturday, thousands of Chicagoans waited in line for hours for the vaccine and many others were turned away after the...
Anti-violence events are held across the city
Dozens of teens gathered in an Albany Park church parking lot Saturday afternoon to unveil what they said was the Chicago neighborhood's first mural, created to depict the area's diversity...
Drugs, despair in community of ‘1,000 churches’
Along the busiest corridors of Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood, a battle is quietly raging between the sacred and the sinful, God's storefront churches and the streets. In this community, which...
Records show grim youth for triple-slaying suspect
Years before D'Andre Howard would be accused of murdering three members of a Hoffman Estates family, his young life was filled with mental instability, sexual aggression and occasional violence, according...
Cops set talk on student’s death
Evanston police plan to discuss Tuesday the findings of an investigation into the death of a 10-year-old boy who reportedly was found hanging from a hook in a bathroom at...
Juvenile center rehiring 5 dismissed counselors
Cook County's beleaguered juvenile detention center has agreed to rehire five counselors who were fired for allegedly physically abusing residents, but they won't have any contact with children in their...