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Fashion designer Virgil Abloh and his sold-out Off-White x Air Jordan 4 sneakers.

Virgil Abloh and Chicago shop Notre team up for sneaker raffle to aid local charity Hugs No Slugs, raising $187,151 in 2 days

July 30, 2020 at 10:38 a.m.

What would you do if a fashion icon slid into your direct messages asking questions about your community service? This is what happened when Louis Vuitton's men's artistic director Virgil...

This Home Owners' Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population." Explore the maps with <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/41.947/-87.793&city=chicago-il&adview=full&text=about&adimage=4/62.553/-139.263" target="_blank">with this tool build by Mapping Inequality</a>.

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

April 22, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

It's an oft-quoted statistic: White families have significantly more wealth than nonwhite families in America — nearly 10 times that of Black families. The racial wealth gap continues to greatly...

Sanna Stella, who has myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome, sits at her home July 7, 2020, in Oak Park. "This is an unusual opportunity right now for progress in research on ME/CFS, as we can be pretty sure some of the COVID-19 patients will go on to develop ME/CFS," she said.

COVID-19 patients could be at risk for chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘Your whole life can change if you get this’

July 28, 2020 at 1:14 a.m.

As the world continues to watch the number of COVID-19 cases increase (and daily records being broken), patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome, want to tell those recovering...

The Deer Path Inn in Lake Forest came in at No. 1 on Travel + Leisure's list of best resort hotels in the Midwest.

Lake Forest’s Deer Path Inn is No. 1 among Travel + Leisure’s top 10 Midwest resorts

July 13, 2020 at 6:05 p.m.

Remember how life was pre-COVID-19? So does Travel + Leisure Magazine. The publication known for its annual travel awards wrapped up its World's Best Awards survey March 2, just before...

No bail for La Grange man accused of killing his stepfather and citing fears of a blood sacrifice for the Illuminati

July 13, 2020 at 2:35 p.m.

A 25-year-old man is accused of killing his stepfather in their La Grange home on Friday morning, shooting him five times in the head and torso, authorities said. DeAngelo Hughes...

South Side psychiatrist Dr. Brandi Jackson outside her Chicago home on June 12, 2020.

Black mental health patients hit hard by COVID-19, social injustice: ‘We were already at a breaking point’

July 15, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.

Dr. Brandi Jackson, a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center, said the COVID-19 pandemic has been her most difficult period as a psychiatrist. With an uptick in anxiety and depression...

COVID-19 mobile testing site in Lake Zurich this week following spike in youth cases

July 13, 2020 at 9:27 a.m.

While the state tries to balance reopening with steadying the number of coronavirus cases, the Lake County Health Department is seeing an uptick of cases among its younger residents. The...

Lamell McMorris, founder and principal of Greenlining Realty, checks the progress of houses under construction on Evans Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on July 6, 2020. McMorris was raised in the neighborhood and is now building what he calls the Woodlawn Pointe development.

A West Woodlawn native wants to right redlining wrongs with some greenlining — and he’s starting in the neighborhood where he grew up

July 13, 2020 at 10:42 a.m.

To fight the generations-spanning, discriminatory housing practice known as redlining with nine homes in a pocket of the South Side might seem, at first, like David going up against Goliath....

$50,000 bond for driver in accident that killed 36-year-old man

July 12, 2020 at 8:59 p.m.

A 31-year-old from the city's East Side is being held on $50,000 bond after a passenger in his vehicle was killed in a crash April 14. Prosecutors said in court...

Uptown, Garfield Park artists Eliza Myrie and Caroline Kent win $10K from national arts nonprofit Artadia

July 8, 2020 at 4:25 p.m.

As the world continues to watch numbers in hopes they come down or stay the same, two Chicago artists got to see their bank accounts go up in the amount...

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