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Activists Jae Rice and Ab Weeks with SOUL, Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, during a Rally for Trans Lives at Daley Plaza on March 31, 2022. The rally was to honor Tatiana Whetstone, a transgender woman recently murdered in Chicago, and Elise Malary, a transgender woman who was recently found dead in Evanston.

LGBTQ activists mark Transgender Day of Visibility with a rally honoring two Black Chicagoans who died in March

April 1, 2022 at 8:22 a.m.

Typically, the Transgender Day of Visibility is a time to celebrate, but speakers at a rally in the Loop on Thursday said that 2022 wasn't typical. The transgender community experienced...

Illustrator Manal Mirza and book Shirin Shamsi hold up their book, "Zahra's Blessing: A Ramadan Story," outside Shirin's home in Darien on March 28, 2022.

Chicagoan Shirin Shamsi has waited 25 years to see her Ramadan picture book published: ‘This is my dream’

March 29, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

In the 1990s, when her kids were young and her dream of being a children's author was still just that — a dream — Shirin Shamsi wrote a picture book...

Director Jacques "Jack" Nuzzo carries deceased bald eagles back to a freezer at the Illinois Raptor Center in Decatur.

2 Illinois eagles died from lead poisoning this month, and toxic hunting ammunition is likely the culprit

March 22, 2022 at 1:46 p.m.

The bald eagle was struggling for breath when it arrived at the Illinois Raptor Center in Decatur. Seizures shook the bird's iconic snow-white head. Its dark wings rose and stiffened...

Preschoolers play inside their classrooms at the Carroll Center in Oak Park.

A ‘postcard from the future,’ Oak Park building is one of three in the state to prove it creates as much energy as it uses

March 17, 2022 at 9:55 a.m.

Plastic pipes snake down 460 feet into the earth, drawing up enough warmth to heat a 7,700-square-foot building — even on the coldest days of winter. Rooftop solar panels can...

Cargo planes are visible behind the Bell Bowl Prairie adjacent to Chicago Rockford International Airport on Oct. 20, 2021, in Winnebago County.

Rare virgin prairie in Rockford gets another reprieve from the bulldozer; construction on hold until June 1

March 1, 2022 at 2:06 p.m.

A rare stretch of virgin prairie has received yet another reprieve from the bulldozer, with the Federal Aviation Administration telling the Tribune that Chicago Rockford International Airport has agreed to...

Frankfort 5-year-old fighting cancer receives more than 6,000 valentines after Facebook post goes viral

February 24, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

The valentines came from as far away as Canada and England. They were homemade and store-bought, silly and serious, pink and red, of course, but also yellow, green, blue and...

Layne Drever, center right, talks with fellow members of Dry Naperville Social while they paint ceramics at Color Me Mine.

The hot new meetup in Naperville is alcohol-free, with hundreds of women joining: ‘When people are sober you can make authentic connections.’

February 2, 2022 at 12:38 p.m.

After Michelle Flynn stopped drinking, the anxiety that had dogged her since childhood slowly started to subside. She grew more energetic and got new compliments at work: "You're such a...

Scott Comstock stands near the fence where his 1-year-old buffalo escaped in September at Milk and Honey Farmstead on Dec. 21, 2021, near Wauconda.

Billy, the runaway bison, is being lured back to the farm with treats: ‘Her motivation for food is going to be her downfall’

January 31, 2022 at 5:38 p.m.

Billy, the runaway bison who became an unlikely social media star in suburban Cary this fall, is being lured home with the help of molasses-sweetened feed, according to one of...

A bald eagle loses grip of its catch on the Mississippi River at Lock and Dam 18 near Gladstone, Illinois, on Jan. 21, 2022.

Bald eagles are flying south to Illinois for the winter. Here’s where to see them.

January 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Humans aren't the only ones who search out warmer waters and fresh seafood during the dark days of winter. Some bald eagles head south as well, departing from Canada, Minnesota...

People stand outside the Center for COVID Control COVID-19 testing trailer at 1527 S. Harlem Ave. in Forest Park on Jan. 4, 2022.

At pop-up COVID testing sites, customers report improper masking and social distancing, lengthy waits for results: ‘It’s kind of the wild, Wild West.’

January 5, 2022 at 4:54 p.m.

When Aaron McManus went to the Northshore Clinical Labs' COVID testing site in Forest Park on Christmas Eve, the scene that greeted him struck him as "surreal." Employees wore mismatched...

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