Poison center offers a dose of calm
The voices on the two ends of the lines couldn't be more different. On one end the callers are often hysterical — their toddlers have just ingested bleach or their...
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Youngsters focus on movie making
The films were jittery, frantic, funny, silly and sweet, just like the kids who directed them. Huddled around five laptops in the Park District of La Grange's Recreation Center were...
Ask an Architect night helps homeowners lay foundation for improvement projects
The Fundators have names for the different problem areas of their Westchester house. Downstairs is the "Greg Brady Basement," furnished in a woefully outdated decor. There is "The Door that...
Protect yourself from sickness on a cruise
It has been a rough couple of months for the cruise industry. In January, the Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, leaving 17 dead and 16 missing....
Reasons to remove tattoos are as varied as reasons to get them
It's a bit like a confessional, the waiting area within the Hindsight Tattoo Removal clinic in Chicago where patients sit and stare at mistakes they have inked into their flesh...
Communion hosts available for gluten-intolerant worshipers
After Stuart Heyes was diagnosed with celiac disease last year, he learned that a gluten-free diet would prevent the pain he experienced after meals, which he described as "like the...
Halloween can be scary for families of food-allergic kids
Jenny Kales spent the last few hours of a recent Halloween night scraping from her front stoop the peanut butter candies that trick-or-treaters had dropped in their dashes from door...
Injecting a little cheer
The television network with the smallest audience in Chicago might have the biggest impact. Skylight TV, produced and broadcast live via closed circuit in Children's Memorial Hospital, reaches just 300...
Teen anti-smoking campaign keeps its cool
Surrounding the dirt bike course that was the center of the AST Dew Tour in Soldier Field's parking lot last weekend was a village of marketing booths trying to get...
Bike Nights bring Thursday thunder to Milwaukee
The longhairs sitting on the rocks by the fire pit on the edge of the patio looked a little dicey, but most of the crowd boozing outside of Milwaukee's Iron...