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Veteran Dan Miller is a Wounded Warrior Project speaker who is open about his own post-traumatic stress disorder as a way to highlight and help what his fellow soldiers face.

36,000 veterans were asked if they’d recently considered suicide. A third of them said yes.

November 8, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

Dan Miller didn't ask for help when he woke up shouting from nightmares about war. He didn't ask for help after his 1991 deployment in Operation Desert Storm, or after...

What to do when your family and friends don’t like your partner

November 13, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

When Shirley Baldwin Owens prepared to meet her future in-laws for the first time, she knew they did not like her. She had been divorced three times. She was living...

Newborn gift ideas, from stylish to studious

December 9, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

Whether you're trying to hone the little one's developmental skills, build muscles with tummy time, or simply entertain, here are a bevy of toy ideas that are quite stylish.

‘Its effects cannot be undone.’ After Rep. Katie Hill vows to fight revenge porn, advocates hope Illinois law serves as model

October 29, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.

California Rep. Katie Hill resigned this week amid allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. When she resigned, she promised to pursue legal options after intimate photos of her...

Former Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte, right, helps install a changing table with John Adduci, a local distributor, at Maggie Daley Park.

Former Bears player Matt Forte helps install first baby changing table in men’s restroom at Maggie Daley Park

October 22, 2019 at 6:09 p.m.

Over the summer, former Bears player Matt Forte brought his toddler to Maggie Daley Park. But when the 3-year-old needed a bathroom break, and a training pants check, Forte couldn't...

In an Oct. 8 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia reached an all-time high, according to 2018 statistics.

More people are getting STDs. And more people are finding partners online. Are the two connected?

October 15, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

More people are being diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, and more daters are finding partners online. Is there a connection? That's what one Hawaiian...

Six decades ago, a devastating fire at Our Lady of the Angels School killed 92 children and three nuns. This year, <a href="/news/ct-catholic-mission-chicago-marathon-20191008-equzeplv6zdmrcnznz37hdovdm-story.html" target="_blank">Sister Stephanie Baliga, center, is running the Chicago Marathon</a>, hoping to raise money to complete the renovations for the building that replaced the one lost in the fire.

She never thought she’d make it past half a mile. Now a 16-year-old Chicago student from Ghana is ready to run 26.

October 10, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Esi Koomson didn't think she'd ever run farther than half a mile. But with the help of a local running group for high schoolers, she ran a 5K. Surely, she...

Kathryn Holcomb-Kirby gives a saliva sample for Ancestry.com testing, at her home in Margate, Fla. Holcomb-Kirby said she has been trying to establish contact with her son, who would now be 27, for years. He was adopted in 1991, when Holcomb-Kirby was 17.

Genealogy sites are helping birth parents find children they placed for adoption — but not everyone wants to be found

April 25, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

DeAnn Link is searching for her daughter. She'd be 23 years old now. Link said she gave birth in a Chicago hospital in 1996 at age 18, and the baby...

New texting service aims to get black women in Chicago answers to their pregnancy questions

April 16, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

More Chicago pregnant women will have access to resources and answers to their pregnancy questions after a new text messaging service launched this week. The Cord, a free news and...

Crime survivors push for more trauma recovery centers in Illinois

April 10, 2019 at 9:28 a.m.

Crime survivors from across Illinois will travel to Springfield on Thursday to ask for more services for trauma recovery throughout the state. Most victims do not receive resources such as...

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