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A view upward at the Field Museum on June 25, 2018, shows the model skeleton of the titanosaur Máximo, the centerpiece of a newly remodeled Stanley Hall that includes hanging gardens and models of prehistoric flying reptiles.

All In Illinois adds at-home learning resources for kids from state museums

May 12, 2020 at 12:04 p.m.

Museums are closed, but many of the ways kids can learn through them are now available online. And kids might find some activities even cooler than walking around inside a...

A Chicago nurse vacationed with other nurses every year. She died from COVID-19 before they could plan their next trip

May 7, 2020 at 5:12 p.m.

Every February, Maria Lopez and a group of fellow Chicago nurses from the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago would board a plane to someplace warm. For about a decade,...

Juan Martinez Jr. stands April 29, 2020, outside his parents' home in Oak Lawn, where they moved in 2001.

He was supposed to retire Thursday after 34 years as a surgical tech. Instead, he died Monday after testing positive for coronavirus.

April 30, 2020 at 8:55 a.m.

After decades of scrubbing in on surgeries as a surgical technologist, Juan Martinez was looking forward to retirement. He planned to travel with his wife and spend more time with...

First UIC nurse dies after testing positive for coronavirus. ‘We were supposed to grow old together … I just got robbed of it.’

April 29, 2020 at 6:57 a.m.

It was a love story that began with her smile. When Lawrence Le Blanc met his future wife, Joyce, on a beach in St. Thomas — he was visiting from...

Daniel Ortiz, a nurse in the COVID-19 unit at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is staying home while he waits for clearance to return to work after testing positive for the coronavirus.

A Chicago nurse returned to work after recovering from coronavirus. His cough came back. He tested 2 more times and got different results.

April 26, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

Day after day, Daniel Ortiz walks into a hospital and treats patients who are struggling with the coronavirus. He hoped he wouldn't test positive for the virus. But it was,...

Lisette, a sexual assault survivor, poses for a portrait at a gym on March 4, 2020, in Chicago.

She woke up naked and bloody. 8 months later, she still awaits her evidence. Why Illinois’ rape kit backlog still hasn’t been fixed.

April 16, 2020 at 10:49 a.m.

Her bloodstained clothes. A necklace. Her DNA. Lisette thinks about everything taken from her the night she says she was assaulted. She wonders where it all is. She pictures the...

An exam room at Planned Parenthood in 2018 in Flossmoor.

Planned Parenthood offers telehealth services for birth control, counseling

April 15, 2020 at 3:27 p.m.

Planned Parenthood will now offer telehealth appointments for people seeking contraception, counseling, HIV prevention medication and other sexual and reproductive health care. The move comes after Planned Parenthood previously consolidated...

Doctors with panic attacks, anxiety and grief can call support hotline. ‘Physicians are really not used to talking about their feelings.’

April 14, 2020 at 4:16 p.m.

The doctors who call in are having panic attacks. They are struggling with feelings of sadness. They are worried about their family members and whether they are putting them at...

Morgan Bald, 4, adds a paper Easter egg to the door as the Bald family decorates their Lakeview home for Easter during the coronavirus pandemic April 7, 2020.

Paper Easter egg hunts. Rooftop sunrise service shot with an iPhone. DIY stained glass crosses and lamb cakes. How families and churches plan to celebrate holiday amid coronavirus.

April 8, 2020 at 12:08 p.m.

Easter is usually filled with so much togetherness — family meals, church celebrations, Easter egg hunts. So how are families and churches celebrating with Illinois under a shelter-in-place order that...

Travel nurses head to Illinois to aid hospitals amid coronavirus crisis. ‘It’s your duty to help.’

April 8, 2020 at 9:45 a.m.

Kayla Kanosky says nursing is a duty to help. The 31-year-old nurse who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, is packing her bags this week, preparing to fly on Thursday evening to...

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