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Aleksandra Dimo, 28, is seen March 14, 2017, outside the Howard Area Community Center in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Dimo was a psychologist in Albania but came to the U.S. in 2015 knowing no English. She now works in a deli and volunteers at the community center.

Skilled immigrants often struggle to put degrees, credentials to use in U.S.

June 5, 2018 at 11:03 a.m.

The first time he applied for a medical residency in the U.S., Rafel AlHiali felt buoyant. With nine years of experience as a physician, the Iraq native and recent immigrant...

Can Siri or Alexa replace your need for friends? Well, maybe.

June 5, 2018 at 12:31 p.m.

By now, we're familiar with the movie storyline. A person replaces relationships with a digital device, like Joaquin Phoenix leaning on his operating system in "Her," and "The Circle" —...

How to introduce peanut-based foods to your baby

June 5, 2018 at 2:28 p.m.

Dietitian Laura Yudys gets a lot of questions about peanuts. And those questions have only increased with recommendations from the National Institutes of Health in January on how to introduce...

2 women divorced the same man. They wrote a book about what they learned.

June 5, 2018 at 2:48 p.m.

When she got divorced, Holiday Miller had no idea where to even begin. Finances? Therapy? And what should she tell her two daughters? She knew just one person who had...

"The Bachelor" winner Vanessa Grimaldi with her fiance, Nick Viall

Can immigration laws hinder new ‘Bachelor’ couple’s togetherness?

June 5, 2018 at 2:08 p.m.

Typically, the challenges for a new couple revealed on "The Bachelor" are many — a slew of recent exes, gossipy rumors, combining lives. In the case of the newest couple,...

Students Taye Baldinazzo and Audrey Mason, both 18, enjoy some unusually warm weather last month at Promontory Point.

Does an early winter warmup help or hurt those with seasonal depression?

June 5, 2018 at 4:01 p.m.

Chicagoans have been blessed with warm weather early this year. Record-breaking temperatures in February had people playing tennis, flocking to the lake path and even sunbathing in swim trunks. But...

Interior of the common area at 444 Social in Lincolnshire, Ill.

Handling real estate during a divorce

May 20, 2019 at 8:28 a.m.

Splitting up is hard enough without squabbling over real estate. But that's exactly what happens when many couples divorce, if they own property. Some might disagree on who keeps a...

How to get beach waves

May 12, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Tutorials abound for how to get the popular look that channels vacation vibes — beachy waves, where the hair falls just so. We summarized two easy, at-home options. Braids For...

#8220;It feels very suffocating. Sometimes the kids are immediately like, ‘When do I get out of here?’ ” said Jajah Wu, a supervising attorney with the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a program based at the University of Chicago Law School that provides advocates to children in local detention centers.

Immigrant children who cross border alone find themselves in Chicago shelters

June 5, 2018 at 8:22 p.m.

Staring at the Rio Grande, Karina hesitated. The 11-year-old girl didn't know how to swim, and she'd only just met the adults who were bringing her from Honduras to the...

All Girl Scout cookies are not created equal. Some contain many more calories and saturated fat than others, which is why it's important to keep an eye on serving size.

A nutritionist ranks the best and worst Girl Scout cookies for you

June 5, 2018 at 7:53 p.m.

If you're like us in the Tribune newsroom, your office — or home — is inundated with the annual delivery of Girl Scout cookies. After scarfing down a handful of...

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