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Natasha Felix looks out of her bathroom window Oct. 1, 2015, at a park next to her apartment building in East Ukrainian Village.

Chicago mother wages 2-year fight against child neglect citation

August 19, 2019 at 12:14 a.m.

Two years ago, Natasha Felix's three children were outside playing at a playground next to her East Ukrainian Village apartment while she was at home. She was checking on her...

Ray Connor talks with son Shane, 28, outside his home in Oak Park on Sept. 22, 2015. Shane is a beneficiary of an Individual Care Grant for his severe mental illness. Shane is living independently and holding a full-time job, evidence that treatment can work, his dad said.

Legislation aims to improve access to care for mentally ill children

August 18, 2019 at 11:17 p.m.

New legislation signed recently by Gov. Bruce Rauner aims to give severely mentally ill children better access to residential treatment and intensive community services. The measure moves the Individual Care...

DeLexus Prater, center, is on track to be part of the first graduating class at Legal Prep Charter Academy in Chicago. Prater, 17, shown during the first day of school Aug. 24, 2015, said she has been focused academically after a difficult freshman year at the East Garfield Park school.

Legal-focused high school readies first graduating class

August 18, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

It was the first day of school, and Jamaurion Leverston was glad to be back. He spent much of the summer indoors — a conscious decision to protect a precious...

Workers demolish a house Aug. 6, 2015, ravaged in a June tornado in Coal City.

Tornado-ravaged town prepares to send kids back to school

August 18, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

The curtain is about to go up on another school year. But in Coal City, the first day of school Friday will be anything but typical. Almost two months after...

Pat Twymon, owner of Wee Are the World Home Daycare in Calumet City, works with Kahlil Pierce, 3, left, and Kamaria Pierce, 5, on July 30, 2015.

Rauner child care cuts threaten fragile system, providers say

August 18, 2019 at 8:12 p.m.

In a nondescript bungalow in Calumet City, computers are lined up at pint-sized tables. Numbers, shapes and colors are everywhere — even on the rug, where a crawling toddler is...

Sarah Paveglio gives a kiss to her brother, Steve Diller, who has Parkinson's disease and dementia on July 22, 2015, at the Autumn Leaves assisted living center in Vernon Hills.

State bill would enhance efforts to find missing Alzheimer’s patients

August 18, 2019 at 8:07 p.m.

Geoff Brook went on a simple errand to the hardware store just a few miles away, a trip he had made hundreds of times. But Brook, who has Alzheimer's, couldn't...

Chicago police officers, including Charley Henson, second from right, carry the body of Marie Brown, who died of heat-related causes from her apartment on July 17, 1995.

Fatal heat wave 20 years ago changed Chicago’s emergency response

August 18, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

Twenty years ago this week, Chicago was gripped by one of the city's worst natural disasters: a scorching heat wave that claimed more than 700 victims, mostly the poor, elderly...

Jose Centen, from left, Elijah Harrison, Sharon Watkins and Robert Robinson, foreground, play a game of Jeopardy! at Clayton Residential Home in Chicago on July 6, 2015. The mental health facility is struggling financially as the state budget is mired in a political stalemate.

Illinois’ safety net snagged on budget mess

May 25, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Every year, they sign petitions, call their lawmakers and head to Springfield to fend off spending cuts. And every year, they somehow manage to squeeze the belt a little tighter,...

Hunter Wilson samples the corn at Taste of Chicago on July 9, 2014.

Corn on the Fourth of July? Thank Georgia

August 18, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

Fresh sweet corn is as much a part of July 4 festivities as fireworks. But it most likely won't be homegrown corn you're eating this holiday weekend, whether you get...

Coal City schools Superintendent Kent Bugg welcomes daughter Megan home from cancer treatment on June 25, 2015.

Coal City superintendent juggles daughter’s cancer treatment, twister damage

August 18, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

Monday dawned with an uneasy feeling for Kent Bugg. It was the day that he and his wife would be taking their 14-year-old daughter for her first of 20 proton...

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