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Protesters demonstrate in support of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia on Dec. 3, 2019.

Should Chicago open safe sites for drug users? There’s already a makeshift network — and it’s saving lives

February 25, 2020 at 6:50 a.m.

In the year he lived in an abandoned building in Humboldt Park, David Cole says he came to the aid of at least six people overdosing from drugs. And maybe...

Family and friends watch the wedding of Javi Rodriguez and Crystal Cuevas.

Heart transplant patient dies days after marrying high school sweetheart in Chicago hospital chapel

December 5, 2019 at 7:16 a.m.

A heart transplant patient who married his high school sweetheart last week in the chapel at the University of Chicago Medical Center died Monday, days after leaving the hospital, his...

Paciente con trasplante de corazón muere días después de casarse

December 5, 2019 at 10:14 a.m.

Un paciente de trasplante de corazón que se casó con su amor de secundaria la semana pasada en la capilla del Centro Médico de la Universidad de Chicago murió el...

Formerly homeless people file lawsuit against Chicago agency after it suddenly stopped helping them

December 4, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Three people who say they are in danger of becoming homeless have filed a lawsuit against a social service agency that for years helped pay for their housing but stopped...

Heart transplant patient with possibly days left to live weds high school sweetheart in Chicago hospital chapel

December 4, 2019 at 4:47 p.m.

A little past noon Wednesday, around 50 friends, family members and hospital staff at the University of Chicago Medical Center squeezed into a chapel in a corner of the hospital's...

Maureen Sullivan, founder of Save the Ramova, outside the closed Ramova Theater in January 2012.

Plan to revive Bridgeport’s Ramova Theater recalls days when ‘It was like walking into another world’

November 23, 2019 at 8:07 p.m.

A long-shuttered historic movie theater building in Bridgeport could soon be revived as a live entertainment venue, restaurant and brewery. Plans to redevelop the 90-year-old Ramova Theater at Halsted and...

An Illinois school science project asked kindergartners and first graders to open medicine bottles. No one warned their parents.

November 19, 2019 at 10:42 a.m.

Parents of kindergarten and first grade students at a LaSalle County elementary school are outraged after their children apparently were asked to open medicine bottles in a science experiment led...

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