Artists with autism express their desire for love, friendship
A large handmade valentine hangs on the wall of the Chicago Cultural Center. Illustrated with two stick figures and a big red heart, the valentine describes one man's search for...
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Chicago band’s van is stolen, but Carbon Tigers barely misses a beat
The van wasn't much. There was rust on the undercarriage and a dent in the passenger door. The right front hubcap sometimes flew off when they were making turns. But...
The artful life of Lois Weisberg
The extraordinary career of Lois Weisberg came to an end in the most ordinary of ways. A merging of departments and a falling out with the boss. And when she...
From ‘out there’ to indoor life
After 30 years of living like ghosts on the streets, sleeping under a bridge and drifting through warming centers, Frank and Anthony Nowotnik are learning to live inside. There are...
In the house
Want to sled down your staircase like Macaulay Culkin in "Home Alone"? Or park your Ferrari in the same glass-and-steel garage made famous by the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?...
Neither snow nor rain nor … violence?
On a chilly fall morning, mail carrier Khalalisa Norris wheeled her cart along West Congress Parkway in the city's Austin neighborhood. She had just dropped a bundle of envelopes into...
You don’t want to be caught up out here, she said.
In a front page story Thursday, I wrote about mail carriers who say they're facing increasing violence on their routes. For an afternoon, I followed Khalalisa Norris -- a carrier...
Only U.S. harmonica company to close Rockford facility
Harrison Harmonicas, a small Rockford-based company that last year opened the only harmonica production facility in the United States, is closing.The company on Thursday sent out an email to customers...
Writing about a farmer killed while driving his tractor
My mom grew up on a dairy farm in the west of Ireland. Some of my most vivid memories from childhood are getting to sit on my uncle's knee as...
There was more to that protector of ducklings…
The headline that ran on page A-6 of the May 31st newspaper sounded intriguing: "Driver killed trying to save ducklings was an animal lover." The story, by Stacy St. Clair...