‘Marijuana refugees’ seek help for sick daughter
In a sixth-floor room at Children's Hospital Colorado, Kristy Frederick gives her daughter a dose of cannabis oil. Then she climbs gingerly into her child's bed. She lifts her ivory-skinned,...
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Evanston bakery provides sweet opportunity to men with autism
Drew McDonough walks quickly past the 50-pound bags of brown sugar and the huge tubs of chocolate frosting. He takes a second to clock in at a computer, dresses in...
On boy’s last day of chemo, gratitude and trepidation
The living room was festooned with orange streamers. On the kitchen counter sat a cake, brightened with orange food coloring. The only clue that this wasn't a color-themed birthday party...
New Lenox brothers return home
The little house on Prairie Road in New Lenox — which a year ago had been falling down and in danger of being condemned — now looks brand-new. With sage-colored...
New Lenox community rebuilds brothers’ home
From the outside, the little white house looked abandoned. Set back from the quiet residential road and surrounded by towering trees, the place was the picture of neglect, with crooked...
Boy’s rescue remembered as ‘Miracle on Mount Baldy’
The rescuers dug until their fingers bled. They dug with shovels and buckets and their bare hands. But they found no trace of the boy who had been swallowed by...
Rosie sign on Kennedy Expressway gives family hope
Over a bleak stretch of the Kennedy Expressway that is often jammed with soul-crushing traffic, the enormous holiday light displays burst through the rush-hour malaise. At Easter, a 12-foot pink...
Chicago family asks students to ‘Choose Kind’
Mary Cate Lynch sat in her mother's arms before a class of fifth-graders at Oriole Park Elementary School. The 2 1/2-year-old can't speak many words yet. But she has mastered...
2nd victim of baseball bat attack tells her story
On an afternoon in April 2010, three detectives walked into Stacy Jurich's hospital room. They carried a black plastic bag and told her they had some things they needed her...
2nd victim of baseball bat attack tells her story
On an afternoon in April 2010, three detectives walked into Stacy Jurich's hospital room. They carried a black plastic bag and told her they had some things they needed her...