It's true, you can't put a price on love. Still, loving and caring for pets can be extremely costly. A typical cat owner spends $673 yearly per cat, the American...
Overheard in the office: "I didn't realize October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So when I looked outside and saw that the lights on the Sears Tower were pink, I...
Thinking outside the box is fine and good--but you've got to get there first. That was the situation for Robert Jakubowski, 14, who recently devised an elaborate plan to ask...
At a recent party, Chicago resident Adam Swift shared a story that made the rounds where he works: "There's no right or wrong answer here, so just say what you...
The music was thumping, the bartenders were bustling and young professionals in fashionably cut slacks and tops were huddled together holding lively conversations. It was a typical night at an...
Some things, you don't expect to live long enough to see, like cloned sheep. Or a McDonald's without french fries. That was the freak occurrence at lunchtime recently at the...
An extremely rotund woman squeezed her way through the doorway of a Rogers Park apartment building on a recent morning as another woman strolled by with a skinny greyhound in...
We recently saw three, count 'em, three couples walking down Michigan Avenue in matching outfits. We didn't think all that much of it when couple No. 1 sauntered by in...
Face it: Smoking, though lusciously, cancerously satisfying to the smoker, is gross. Which is part of the reason the Chicago City Council is considering an ordinance that would ban smoking...