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Children play in a slum in Cebu City, Philippines, the location of a study in which Northwestern anthropology professor Thomas McDade has been involved for nearly two decades.

Poverty plays role in DNA structure changes, study involving Northwestern professor finds

April 12, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

Growing up in poverty can have such a lasting effect on a person's health that researchers have now determined it contributes to changing the person's gene structure, according to a...

Macaire Grambauer, 34, gets a wrist band after voting April 1, 2019 at the Humboldt Park Library in Chicago, the day before the mayoral runoff between Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot.

Thousands voting early ahead of Tuesday’s election, but turnout doesn’t match past totals

May 12, 2019 at 1:45 p.m.

Thousands of Chicago residents had voted early by Monday afternoon ahead of Tuesday’s mayoral runoff election. Still, the total number of early voters so far doesn’t match how many early...

Rockford teen identified as 1 of 2 killed in Lawndale crash

May 23, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

A Rockford teenager was identified as one of two people killed early Wednesday in a crash on the city’s West Side, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Anjel...

2 men dead, 60-year-old pedestrian injured in morning crash in Lawndale

May 23, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

Two men were killed early Wednesday in a crash on the city’s West Side when the car they were in blew through a red light and hit a truck, injuring...

Fire investigator Patrick Dunn photographs on Sept. 7, 2018, the damage caused by a fire that gutted a Little Village apartment where 10 children died in August.

Mother of 3 of 10 children who died in Little Village fire sues city, landlord

May 23, 2019 at 1:53 a.m.

Priscilla Cobos reluctantly allowed her three children to spend the night with a group of cousins last August in a Little Village apartment because they hadn’t seen each other in...

Young women become emotional near the scene of a fatal fire in the 5800 block of South May Street in Chicago on March 22, 2019.

5-year-old girl found dead in bunk bed in Englewood house fire: ‘She was the sweetest child you ever wanted to see’

May 23, 2019 at 1:53 a.m.

Katlyn Jefferies spent Thursday watching movies at an after-school program where she prepared to make an Easter basket while going around affectionately giving everyone a hug. By Friday morning, the...

Una niña fue encontrada muerta en una litera después que estalló un incendio

March 22, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

Una niña de 5 años fue encontrada muerta luego del incendio en una residencia de Englewood, el viernes por la mañana, de acuerdo con los bomberos de Chicago. Los bomberos...

Kristin Ballard of Rockford stands in support of police officers and firefighters while attending a procession for fallen McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Keltner as his body arrives at the Winnebago County Coroner's Office in Rockford, on Thursday, March 7, 2019.

Floyd Brown pleads not guilty to federal charges in shooting death of McHenry County Deputy Jacob Keltner

May 23, 2019 at 1:52 a.m.

Nearly two weeks after a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot, a 39-year-old man charged in the death pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges in U.S. District Court...

El centro de Dwight, la ciudad que aprobó una anexión y cambio de zonificación de tierras que podrían utilizarse para un centro de detención de inmigrantes.

Avanza plan para un centro de detención de inmigrantes cerca de Chicago

March 19, 2019 at 11:14 a.m.

Mary Flott piensa en su ciudad natal de Dwight como un pueblo tranquilo y pintoresco. Pero le preocupa que se construya un gran centro de detención de inmigrantes, se asentaría...

The business district in Dwight is shown on March 15, 2019. The town approved an annexation and rezoning of land that could be used for an immigration detention center.

A tiny Illinois town has become the latest battleground in the effort to build an immigration detention center near Chicago

August 22, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.

Mary Flott thinks of her hometown of Dwight as a quiet, quaint village. But she worries that if a proposed development is built, people will identify it more with a...

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