After 70 years, the Mantellate Sisters leave St. George
Sister Maria Musto heard the call during her freshman year at Mother of Sorrows High School in Blue Island. The kindness she experienced under the tutelage of the Mantellate Sisters,...
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Oak Lawn pastor who blazed trail for women, led flock in social activism, set to retire
Back in the 1960s when Peggy McClanahan first heard the call to serve the church, female pastors were pretty much nonexistent. That position wasn’t even on her radar when she...
Lockport Township High School teacher to set sail on ocean expedition
Jeff Brown will go on his first cruise next week when he boards the Exploration Vessel Nautilus for a five-day mission to help scientists map the ocean floor. The Lockport...
Veterinarian makes house calls across the Southland
It’s 9:30 on a Friday morning and inside her mobile vet clinic, parked along 145th Street in Midlothian, Dr. Brandy Bearden is stocking supplies. Within minutes, her first client of...
What happens when the bully apologizes 60 years later and the story goes public? ‘Amazing grace.’
In the month since Bruce Smit apologized to sisters Kathleen Rys and Lorraine O’Kelly for sins he committed some 60 years ago when all were students at Monee Elementary School,...
More amazing high school graduates: Part 2 of our salute to the Southland’s class of 2018
Caps off to the class of 2018. As they prepare to bid adieu to high school and set forth on their next journey, we asked several to pause and share...
Class of 2018: A look at some of the Southland’s extraordinary high school graduates
Caps off to the class of 2018. As they prepare to bid adieu to high school and set forth on their next journey, we asked several to pause and share...
From raised beds to seed bombs, what’s growing in the gardening world?
Time to get dirty. The summer gardening season fast approaches and the Southland is blooming with news and opportunities to turn your thumbs green. Among the trends growing in popularity...
An Army vet and a man who survived a coma found friendship through science. Now they’re graduating college together.
Around the time Dreyvon McCray was relearning how to walk and talk and live in a world in which a kid can be beaten into a coma over a cell...
A mother’s heartbreak: ‘I never thought I’d lose my son to a drunk driver’
"Mother's Day is coming and my day will be at the cemetery," said Lisa Smith, fighting back tears. Her son Steven Smith, a Chicago Ridge police officer, was killed by...