‘All of them gunned down’
When I first met Shirley Chambers in 2000, she'd lost three children to gun violence. She had one child left, Ronnie Chambers, who was then 21. Because word of each...
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‘All of them gunned down’
When I first met Shirley Chambers in 2000, she'd lost three children to gun violence. She had one child left, Ronnie Chambers, who was then 21. Because word of each...
Where are all the children?
Parts of the Chicago area as different as Pilsen and Naperville have experienced significant drops in their populations of children under 10 years old in recent years, a trend that...
King would still be fighting poverty
Aldon Morris is a Northwestern University professor who has accompanied busloads of students traveling from the school's Evanston campus to Chicago's Far South Side, passing through areas where President Barack...
Dawn Turner Trice: Dance instructor takes steps to overcome illness
You might find Cescily Washington teaching a dance class at a Chicago public school, standing before her young students dressed in her black leotard with her hair pulled back into...
Menopause study has the skinny on belly fat
Lynda Powell is the chairperson of preventive medicine at Rush University Medical Center and the architect of its nearly 20-year-old menopause study that has been following a diverse group of...
In Pilsen area, a volunteer health worker offers answers about pelvic health
Ana Cazares is a volunteer community health worker who's so determined to broach taboo health subjects in her Pilsen neighborhood that she uses every opportunity that presents itself. Cazares was...
Little Company of Mary looks to transplant heart of old building into new facility
At night, when Marie Moore is driving west along 95th Street near California Avenue, she looks up at the 25-foot spire atop Little Company of Mary Hospital and the concrete...
An Irish immigrant’s odyssey
For most of her 90 years, all Josephine Stout knew about her arrival in America was that she came from Ireland as a baby. It was a minor detail, a...
Trice: Holidays difficult for those struggling with grief
When Frank Reid's wife was alive, their suburban Addison home was always decorated for the Christmas season. "Once upon a time, outside we'd have the sleigh with Santa, Frosty the...