Dawn Turner Trice

In 2004, I was covering a story when my mother called me to say my father, who was 77 at the time, had had a heart attack. As I raced...

On a hot, breezy evening last week, a group of students in the State Street office of the Chicago Freedom School headed for a CTA Red Line station. The 10...

I am the mother of a 16-year-old daughter. But if I had a 16-year-old son instead, I wouldn't want him to hang out downtown with his buds this summer. I'd...

The recipe for chef Donald Tiller's Mediterranean 12-Grain Pasta with Chicken is fairly straightforward: Saute half a red onion for two minutes in two tablespoons of olive oil. Add a...

On the evening of Dec. 18, 2009, Anna and Thomas Ware were sitting in their living room amid photographs of their teenage daughter and their son, Albert Ware, a decorated...

A minister I knew used to say a person preaches his own funeral by the way he lived his life. I thought about this last week when I met Neil...

Growing old is not for the faint of heart. But maybe it's a bit easier when you grow old with someone who has known you nearly all your life. That's...

The first glimpse Sarah and Roger Britton got of their unborn daughter was from Sarah's ultrasound when she was 24 weeks pregnant. They oohed and aahed, but all the couple...

Carrie Wicks had been traveling to Africa for nearly a decade when in 2001 she met a foreign student at the University of Chicago who told her about a two-room...