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A monarch butterfly in Debbie Kostolansky's butterfly garden in Orland Park on Wednesday, Sept. 2021. Story on how a monarch butterfly she raised in her home last summer was tracked all the way to central Mexico. (Jose M. Osorio/ baiduhai)

Una mariposa monarca criada cerca de Chicago vuela 2,000 millas hasta el centro de México

September 10, 2021 at 11:56 a.m.

Una mujer de Orland Park, Illinois, que cría mariposas en su casa ganó el premio gordo de la migración de la monarca: una pequeña etiqueta colocada en una de sus...

Debbie Kostolansky in her butterfly garden in Orland Park on Sept. 8, 2021.

An Orland Park woman’s home-raised monarch butterfly makes it to central Mexico, 2,000 miles away: ‘What are the chances?’

September 8, 2021 at 10:05 p.m.

An Orland Park woman who raises butterflies in her home hit the monarch migration jackpot: A tiny tag affixed to one of her 2020 butterflies was recovered in the mountainous...

Samantha Goodman, 40, releases a monarch butterfly with her 6-year-old son, Torben Goodman, outside their home on Sept. 1, 2021, in Chicago. Four weeks ago Samantha collected the egg in a parkway in her neighborhood.

The annual 3,000-mile monarch migration is heading toward Chicago: ‘It’s like a Disney movie, except better’

September 5, 2021 at 5:14 p.m.

Breanna Seibel was riding a four-wheeler alongside her alfalfa field in northern Wisconsin when she started seeing monarch butterflies. The bright orange visitors were swooping, fluttering and dancing in pairs,...

Once a rising star of the ‘ex-gay’ movement, Julie Rodgers speaks out against ‘conversion therapy’ in Netflix documentary: ‘I carry with me the scars.’

August 25, 2021 at 2:03 p.m.

In 2011, a bright-eyed newcomer from small-town Texas was invited to speak at the annual Exodus International conference, alongside a who's who of conservative Christians who were trying to curb...

Meggan Sommerville at Hudson Crossing Park in Oswego on Aug. 13, 2021. Sommerville, who is transgender, won the latest round in a 10-year battle to use the women's restroom at her workplace, Hobby Lobby.

Illinois court sides with transgender woman in her 10-year battle with Hobby Lobby over the right to use the women’s restroom at work

August 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

There's a woman's restroom at the East Aurora Hobby Lobby where Meggan Sommerville works, but for 10 years, she's been barred from using it because she is transgender. She has...

Chicago drag pioneer Jim Flint, second from left, is honored during an 80th birthday celebration for the Baton Show Lounge owner at Park West on July 27, 2021.

A Chicago drag legend celebrates his 80th birthday with showgirls, sequins and a few hundred of his closest friends: ‘He’s iconic and everybody knows it.’

July 29, 2021 at 9:26 p.m.

There were cocktails and spotless white table linens, ball gowns and sequined bikinis. There were proclamations from politicians, toasts, standing ovations, musical tributes — and even, as the evening wore...

Dan Hauswald, 33, at Allison Woods Forest Preserve on July 13, 2021, in Northbrook. Hauswald identifies as asexual.

After decades of invisibility, asexuals are speaking up and gaining ground: ‘I don’t need to be fixed because I’m not broken.’

July 28, 2021 at 3:44 p.m.

Looking back, Allison McCorkle can laugh at all the signs she missed: There was that time in sixth grade when the cool boy her friends were swooning over called to...

Rural youth were three times more likely to be treated in the emergency room for self-inflicted gunshot wounds than their urban counterparts, according to a new study.

Children in rural areas are 3 times likely to be treated for self-inflicted gunshot wounds than those in big cities, study shows

July 20, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

Children and teens from rural areas are nearly 40% more likely to land in the emergency room for self-harm than their big-city counterparts, according to a new study published in...

Shedd Aquarium celebrates ‘Shark Week’ with virtual feeding tours and more: ‘It’s a great opportunity for us to really dispel some of the myths’

May 22, 2026 at 7:57 p.m.

Sometimes referred to as the golden retrievers of the shark kingdom, zebra sharks can grow to an impressive 8 feet long, but their teeth are blunt, their manner is mild...

Transgender activist Precious Brady-Davis poses for a portrait June 9, 2021, before recording lines for her new audiobook, "I Have Always Been Me," at Chicago Recording Company.

Precious Brady-Davis, who broke barriers as the first transgender mom to be correctly gendered on an Illinois birth certificate, tells her story in a new memoir

July 7, 2021 at 10:45 a.m.

The facts, as laid out in her new memoir, are stark: Chicago transgender activist Precious Brady-Davis began her life in a Nebraska housing project, entered foster care when she was...

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