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The traditional Ojibwe canoe being built by Wayne Valliere.

One of America’s last remaining Native birchbark canoe builders launches elaborate 16-foot hunting boat constructed at Northwestern: ‘We don’t just take, we give back.’

October 29, 2021 at 8:58 p.m.

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe...

The baiduhai press service wrote about novelist Edna Gertrude Beasley on June 28, 1925, as her book "My First Thirty Years" was making waves abroad and in the United States.

Q&A with the women who resurrected a fiery feminist’s book banned for ‘obscenity’ after its publication in 1925

October 22, 2021 at 8:23 p.m.

Once described as able to "fight her weight in wildcat," University of Chicago graduate Gertrude Beasley came out swinging in her 1925 memoir, "My First Thirty Years." In the first...

Photos on display in "Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement."

What do an original rainbow flag, a life-size photo of Marsha P. Johnson, and the gavel that ended ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ have in common?

October 29, 2021 at 11:08 a.m.

The flag has eight stripes, not six, and it's signed by its designer, the self-styled "gay Betsy Ross," Gilbert Baker. Other treasures include Harvey Milk campaign posters and the gavel...

Selma Blair arrives for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opening gala on Sept. 25, 2021, in Los Angeles.

New Selma Blair documentary spotlights a cutting-edge multiple sclerosis treatment pioneered at Northwestern

October 13, 2021 at 1:22 p.m.

In summer 2019, a well-known Hollywood actor could be spotted on downtown sidewalks, her head shaved, her walk aided by a stylish three-wheeled, lemon-yellow scooter. Selma Blair had come to...

Banned in the 1920s, a University of Chicago grad’s fiery feminist memoir has been reissued, making it widely available for the 1st time

October 11, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

Once described as able to "fight her weight in wildcat," University of Chicago graduate Gertrude Beasley came out swinging in her 1925 memoir, "My First Thirty Years." In the first...

Wind turbines in rural McLean County on April 14, 2021.

What’s in it for you? Illinois’ sweeping new clean energy law includes a $4,000 rebate on an electric car, up to 10% off on your electric bill and up to $9,000 back on a solar roof.

October 7, 2021 at 2:13 p.m.

Illinois' massive new clean energy bill, signed into law last month, is a landmark in the state's battle against climate change: a systematic plan for boosting solar and wind power,...

Brian Johnson, author of Our Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy, in downtown Chicago on Sept. 29, 2021.

Illinois LGBTQ leader calls for a citizen dividend of $570 a year to combat income inequality

October 4, 2021 at 2:16 p.m.

When Brian Johnson first started noticing articles about income inequality in 2016, he had his doubts. The son of an Army officer and the leader of the largest LGBTQ civil...

Scott Friedland stands in his store, Timeless Toys, on Sept. 21, 2021, in Chicago. Scott, a captain in the Indiana Army National Guard, is inviting customers to buy toys for Afghan evacuees in the U.S. In turn, he will match toy donations and partner with a national nonprofit, Team Rubicon, to deliver the toys.

Chicago toy store collects dolls, books and teddy bears for kids arriving from Afghanistan: ‘Why can’t we be the people to help?’

September 21, 2021 at 5:56 p.m.

Some of the donors give online, but the little boy who stepped into Timeless Toys in Lincoln Square on Sunday took a more personal approach. About 6 or 7 years...

A migrating American white pelican at Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge near Havana, Illinois, on Sep. 10, 2021.

Big and burly, with a supersized orange bill, the once rare American white pelican is migrating through Illinois: ‘It’s just stunning to watch.’

September 17, 2021 at 12:36 p.m.

Pelicans in Chicago? Increasingly, the answer is yes. The American white pelican — a snow-white showstopper that weighs in at up to 30 pounds — has been spotted at Lake...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker at the Thompson Center on Aug. 26, 2021.

Low-income parents seeking employment can get free child care under COVID-19 relief measures announced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker

September 13, 2021 at 6:31 p.m.

Low-income parents who are trying to return to the workforce can apply for three months of free child care under a new package of pandemic relief measures announced Monday by...

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