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Wendy Giles, at left, and Tonia Butler stand for a portrait with a photograph of their sister, Kimberly Garnett, who was killed by her boyfriend in 2005, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 at their mother's home in Lansing, Ill.

Victims of domestic violence leave families looking for answers

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

The news that Nadia Ezaldein's sister had gone to court to try to get an order of protection against Ezaldein's ex-boyfriend sent my thoughts to the sisters of another woman...

With photos of his late son displayed behind him, Doug Petit tells his story at a victim impact panel last month for young people charged with DUI. Jonathan Petit was 16 when he drowned in a retention pond after an underage drinking party.

This victim impact panel is for young people charged with DUI

August 18, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

The young people waited in the front rows of the classroom, an earring flashing from one guy's ear, a woman clutching a can of Red Bull. It could have been...

The Indie City Arcade Launch Party held at Emporium Arcade Bar.

Brotman: Family fun with kids in their 20s — a Logan Square bar crawl

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

In "What to Expect When You're Expecting," they don't tell you that in about two and a half decades, the babies you once took to the park will take you...

Client Bobby Childs gives a firm handshake to retention counselor Emma Mitchell-Clark upon arriving for a mock interview, and advice at the Michael Barlow Center in Chicago.

Michael Barlow Center coaches ex-offenders on finding jobs

August 18, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

Emma Mitchell-Clark sat across the desk from Bobby Childs, looked him in the eye and asked the question most dreaded by anyone trying to get a job after getting out...

Muwafeeq Mohammed, left, and Mansem Taher, both from Iraq, watch "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" with other refugees at a Thanksgiving-themed event last week at Heartland Alliance in Chicago.

Chicago-area refugees experience traditions, flavors of Thanksgiving

August 18, 2019 at 6:31 p.m.

The music filling the room was wholly American — the instantly recognizable Vince Guaraldi piano riff from the "Peanuts" holiday specials. But the guests in the room didn't grow up...

Andrea Harvey cradles her daughter, Lila, on Friday at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. Harvey will be giving thanks this Thanksgiving despite having a seriously ill child who has not left the hospital since her birth a year ago.

Even in arduous times, mom is thankful at Lurie Children’s Hospital

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Come Thanksgiving, many of us will pause to count our blessings. Andrea Harvey will be counting hers. Though at first glance, it might not seem she has many to count....

Kyle Barnholt, of Chicago, skis at Northerly Island in January. He's got the right idea, the Tribune's Barbara Brotman says. She thinks anything that can only be done in winter provides a reason to love it.

A personal strategy for how to get through winter

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

The catalogs are pouring into my mailbox these days, and though they aren't wrapped in brown paper, there's no disguising what they are: Warm-clothing soft porn. It's hot stuff, or...

Former Chicago Fur Outlet proprietor Howard Bresnik, working last month out of an office at Skokie-based American Fur Mart, attempts to locate owners of furs that were left at his store after he was convicted of consumer fraud.

Furrier who defrauded customers tries to explain why

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Howard Bresnik stood in a backroom of a Skokie fur store and pulled a court document out of one of the cartons stacked on a table. "'Master Consignment —'" he...

Olson stitches beads onto a piece that is part of a group of textiles representing the Standard Model in physics.

Artist partners with physics lab, water district, cop shop

August 18, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

A book titled "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos" was on the work table in artist Lindsay Olson's home studio. A chart headed "names and characteristics of various...

Tess Dinerstein rehearses the role of the Cat on Saturday in Petite Opera Production's "Brundibar." The show, a children's opera that was performed in a Nazi ghetto and concentration camp, is being staged for three weeks in Park Ridge.

Park Ridge theater to stage children’s opera performed in Nazi camp

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Petite Opera Productions is, true to its name, small. The Park Ridge-based company, dedicated to introducing new audiences to opera in nonstuffy settings, doesn't usually fly in a guest performer...

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