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Mental health training, set for second year at Stagg High School, may have already saved a life

August 14, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Before she trained in the Teen Mental Health First Aid program, Persephone Valdes might not have known how to help a friend who was having suicidal thoughts, or even known...

Southland foundation marks $1M in contributions to families battling cancer

August 9, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.

Battling a second cancer was hard enough for Nicole Munoz and her caretaker mom but they also struggled to keep up with daily living expenses without regular income from a...

Grants boost projects at historic buildings in Beverly, Blue Island, Country Club Hills

July 26, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

Two south suburban churches and a historical society looking to extend the lives of their century-old buildings have received a financial boost from Landmarks Illinois, a non-profit that helps fund...

Worth student travels to Colombia to mark opening of university in Bogota

July 15, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

Worth native Tony Munzing has been a school teacher and helped mark the opening of a new university in Colombia, yet he won't graduate from college for another year. Munzing's...

Lifesaving effort leads to Medal of Valor for local firefighter

July 5, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.

Bryan Lowery said he didn't think twice about rescuing a man from a burning car in May, even though he was risking his own life to do so. Years of...

Peacocks hang out near a statue of St. Francis in the Garden of God at St. Florian Church in Hegewisch.

Peacocks add ‘point of beauty’ to St. Florian Church in Hegewisch

June 21, 2019 at 5:18 p.m.

Passersby often peer over the fence to see the three peacocks hanging out in the rectory yard of St. Florian Church in Hegewisch. So the Rev. David Simonetti invites them...

Sheri Pieroni and Connie Girgenti both of Joliet, at a Infusion Nurses Society meeting in 2018. The local nurses recently launched an effort to get hospitals to hire vascular nurse specialists to perform IV insertions.

Local nurses worried about IV risks are leading a national effort to get hospitals to hire specialists

June 21, 2019 at 2:52 p.m.

Sheri Pieroni once treated a patient who had been stuck with a needle so many times as nurses tried to unsuccessfully insert IV lines she said she would rather die...

Evergreen Park students honor their heroes on canvas

June 20, 2019 at 4:43 p.m.

Her brother had been gone for two years, but Elizabeth Floyd had no trouble picturing him. In fact, as part of a Hero Art Project at Evergreen Park Community High...

Central Middle School students Kyler Brown and Joseph Arredondo serve up coffee with the help of occupational therapist Meg McGarry at Cafe 111 in the school.

Middle school students get on-the-job training and teachers get a cup of joe at Cafe 111 in Evergreen Park

June 1, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

The middle school students smiled as they served up coffee, tea and hot chocolate to teachers and administrative staff recently at Café 111. Sometimes they needed little reminders to ask...

Zuka'a Joudeh, of Palos Hills, stands with her parents on graduation day at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Joudeh received a Fulbright grant to teach English in Germany for 10 months beginning this fall.

UIC grad from Palos Hills heading to Germany to help refugees ‘on the ground level’

May 29, 2019 at 5:34 p.m.

When Zuka'a Joudeh heard about the plight of Syrian refugees who were migrating to Germany in 2015, she wanted to help out. Over the last two summers, she found her...

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