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Calumet City plans to use revenues generated by a proposed new tax increment financing district to encourage redevelopment of areas around River Oaks Shopping Center.

Explanation, please: What is a TIF? How are property taxes calculated? What’s with the caucuses? And why are the forest preserves setting fires?

May 21, 2019 at 11:46 p.m.

It’s complicated. But does it have to be? Life is full of confounding mechanisms, programs, procedures and systems. Many of them directly affect us even if we don’t necessarily understand...

Vickroy: Surprise! Everyone you love is plotting behind your back and it will be fabulous

January 17, 2019 at 7:55 p.m.

It’s always the things you aren’t looking for that get you. You prepare for bad weather, brace for the zombie apocalypse, even rough sketch an escape route in case of...

Dylan Gluszek, a sophomore at Bremen High School in Midlothian, created a holiday light show aimed at inspiring people to donate food. Hoping to collect 1,500 pounds for local pantries, he ended up with more than 6,000 pounds.

Teen’s holiday light show generates 6,000 pounds of food as pantries brace for demand due to government shutdown

May 21, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

Dylan Gluszek’s holiday food drive brought in 6,000 pounds of food for the area’s hungry. That’s more than three times the amount he hoped to collect through his Christmas light...

Beverly restaurant offers free lunch for unpaid government workers

May 21, 2019 at 11:46 p.m.

There are daily specials and midnight specials and even Super Bowl specials. This week, Horse Thief Hollow in Beverly is offering the Shutdown Special, a free lunch, up to $15,...

After more than 100 years of providing a place to worship and pray to patients and staff at Oak Forest Hospital and, later, Health Center, Sacred Heart Chapel has closed.

Sacred Heart Chapel in Oak Forest closes after more than 100 years of serving patients, staff and visitors

May 21, 2019 at 11:37 p.m.

Nic and Balen Gaceta returned to Oak Forest after a two-month trip to learn one of their favorite places to worship was gone. Sacred Heart Chapel, located inside Building F...

‘Frida Kahlo’s Garden’ explores how nature inspired the 20th century artist

May 21, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

There were so many facets to Frida Kahlo — artist, polio and bus accident survivor, intermittent wife of painter Diego Rivera, and counterculture symbol — the public may not know...

Recovering heroin addict now helps others get into treatment: ‘I made a call … and my life changed’

May 21, 2019 at 11:43 p.m.

Nick Cialdella doesn’t mince words, doesn’t sugarcoat the past, doesn’t rewrite the narrative. Seated at a conference table just days into the new year, he talks candidly about his plunge...

Carmen Pedroza, left, looks over new materials from the Oak Lawn Public Library, delivered by staffer Meghan Moran through the facility's home delivery program.

Home delivery keeps library patrons connected, engaged

May 21, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

It’s 4 p.m. on a Monday when Meghan Moran carries her bag of books onto Carmen Pedroza’s porch and rings the bell. Pedroza loves to read, but sometimes health issues...

Thanks to an anonymous donation, Chicago Heights-based South Suburban Humane Society is expanding to a long abandoned animal hospital in Homewood.

South Suburban Humane Society expanding to Homewood, adding capacity for dogs, cats

May 21, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

An anonymous donation of $120,000 has enabled Chicago Heights-based South Suburban Humane Society to purchase a long-closed animal hospital at 183rd and Harwood in Homewood, said Emily Klehm, CEO of...

The Rev. Charles Rubey is founder and director of Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide. In 2017, he was honored for his work during the Little Company of Mary Hospital Crystal Ball. Evergreen Park.

Channeling grief over suicide leads to yearlong film project, but still no answers

May 21, 2019 at 11:43 p.m.

A few days before New Year’s Eve, my 31-year-old nephew, Timmy Walczak, posted to Facebook a heartbreaking and fascinating tribute to a dear friend he lost a year ago to...

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