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Lanetha Guider, of Markham, holds cast impressions of her daughter's foot and hand. Nurses at Children's Memorial Hospital made the casts before 4-month-old Ra'Nya was taken off life support at the hospital after suffering fatal injuries in a vehicle crash.

A Markham 4-month-old was killed last summer in a car crash, but her heart lives on, along with her kidneys and lungs, thanks to a grieving mom’s choice to donate

April 29, 2021 at 10:26 a.m.

It was every parent's nightmare. Lanetha Guider was stopped in traffic on the Tri-State Tollway last summer while driving back from her visiting her mother so she could meet Lanetha's...

Kay MacNeil, "The Butterfly" lady of Frankfort, from left, Bloom Township Highway Commissioner Joseph Stanfa and Bloom Township Clerk Carla Matthews gathered at the township office in Chicago Heights last week to give away milkweed seeds in honor of Earth Day. Seeds remain available at the township office.

Bloom Township official, Frankfort advocate unite in effort to boost local butterfly population

April 27, 2021 at 2:43 p.m.

It began with a movie. When Joseph Stanfa saw Flight of the Butterflies at the Museum of Science and Industry, it ignited a passion in him to help save monarch...

Nooshin Saharkhiz Trombetta, a Moraine Valley Community College instructor from Orland Park, stands in her classroom at the college in Palos Heights. Trombetta was named the 2021 Arthur J. Stejskal Memorial Teacher of the Year Award from the Illinois Adult Education Association.

Now on her third career, a MVCC teacher earns statewide honor for helping immigrants ‘make a pathway as Americans’

April 21, 2021 at 3:55 p.m.

When Orland Park resident Nooshin Saharkhiz Trombetta came to the United States from Iran at age 15, she knew it would be hard to adjust to a new country and...

Linda Brown, right, of Chicago, chats with volunteer Sabina Reyes, of Crestwood, as she puts her donation for lunch in a Salvation Army red kettle last week at At the Salvation Army Crossgenerations Center in Blue Island. Brown joined the senior lunch program about a month ago when her husband became ill.

A Senior Lunch program in Blue Island feeds 60 to 80 people a day. ‘Those who can’t pay are fed anyway’

April 19, 2021 at 3:52 p.m.

Those red kettles that have become a fundraising icon for the Salvation Army aren't just brought out for the holidays. They help with lunch, too. At the Salvation Army Crossgenerations...

Owen Marino, 3, from Mokena, puts his raffle ticket in a bucket at An English Garden Flowers & Gifts in Mokena. Looking on is his brother Parker Marino, 5.

Easter scavenger hunt brings families out to Mokena businesses

April 4, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

What a difference a year makes. Last Easter, the state was locked down due to COVID-19. On Saturday, the Mokena Chamber of Commerce hosted families for an Easter scavenger hunt....

Jhene Purry, a senior at Marian Catholic, and Janiya Richardson, both from Phoenix, bow their heads as they remember Justin Young during a vigil.

Marian Catholic students gather to remember senior Justin Young, killed in a car crash

March 25, 2021 at 10:54 a.m.

On Dave Mattio field, where Marian Catholic senior Justin Young played defensive end, hundreds of friends and family gathered Wednesday to remember the popular student who died in a car...

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