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Portrait of writer and disability activist Melissa Blake, 39, outside of her home on Sept. 15, 2020 in DeKalb. Blake is dressed in clothes by Zappos Adaptive Line.

At 39, DeKalb disability activist Melissa Blake is modeling in her first runway show — at New York Fashion Week

September 16, 2020 at 9:40 a.m.

As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unfortunately, fashion wasn't much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and stands...

Police were called to keep order in New York's financial district on Oct. 30, 1929, after speculators lost billions of dollars on a record-breaking day of crashing prices.

Comparing COVID-19 with previous national crises such as Vietnam War, Spanish flu: Historians weigh in on the similarities and differences

September 11, 2020 at 11:18 a.m.

Already, COVID-19 has killed more Americans than World War I and Vietnam — combined. Coronavirus has pushed the unemployment rate to levels not seen since the Great Depression. A national...

A combination of book covers for "Give Us the Ballot" by Ari Berman, "Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty" by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt and "Nothing to See Here" by Kevin Wilson

2020 is winding down, but the drama isn’t: Read these books now to make sense of it

September 7, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

Trainwreck. Demented. A dumpster fire of a year. We've all seen the social media memes, and most of us are ready to be done with 2020. But it isn't over...

Lawrence Underwood, a registered nurse with Christian Community Health Center, administers a free COVID-19 test to Nathan Ferguson outside Apostolic Faith Church on South Indiana Avenue in Chicago on Aug. 26, 2020. Clinics from the South and West sides of Chicago are hosting free COVID-19 testing and flu vaccinations at churches in Chicago.

Where’s your closest drive-thru COVID-19 test site? Can you avoid that deep nasal swab? Your top 10 questions about coronavirus testing, answered.

September 8, 2020 at 5:38 p.m.

Want to get a COVID-19 test solely because you're visiting your grandparents? In Illinois, there's nothing stopping you. COVID-19 testing has come a long way since May. You don't need...

Hannah adjusts her stroller outside her home Aug. 20, 2020, in Chicago. Hannah and her husband have an 8-month-old son, who is cared for by a nanny when they are at work.

Babysitter bidding wars: As Chicago parents shell out $25 per hour, paid vacation and $1,000 signing bonuses during pandemic, ‘wealthiest families win out’

September 2, 2020 at 10:16 a.m.

She expected to pay a nanny about $16-$20 an hour to care for one baby in Chicago's easily accessible Lakeview neighborhood. But when Hannah, a lawyer who didn't want to...

In a victory for actors who don’t identify as male or female, a growing number of awards — including Chicago’s Jeffs — are combining ‘best actor’ and ‘best actress’ to form one gender-neutral category

August 26, 2020 at 12:14 p.m.

The character Angel in "Rent" is described as a drag queen, but when Chicago actor Will Wilhelm got the role in 2016, Angel became less a man who performs a...

Rabbi Chaim Keller, a yeshiva leader and prominent member of Chicago’s Orthodox Jewish community, is dead at 90. ‘He was the oldest. He was the greatest.’

August 18, 2020 at 9:55 a.m.

Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller was an obscure religion instructor when he came to Chicago in 1961 to help start a new yeshiva, or Orthodox Jewish school. When he died Monday...

Lloyd Peters sits on a tree that was felled after a tornado touched down outside his home in Rogers Park on Aug. 12, 2020, in Chicago.

With thousands of trees felled by Monday’s storm, residents of hard-hit neighborhoods lament lost shade and greenery: ‘This is going to be very devastating’

August 14, 2020 at 1:57 p.m.

Lloyd Peters used to awaken in the cooling shade of a 100-year-old oak tree. But now his mornings begin in a blaze of unfiltered sunlight, and his apartment — on...

South Side community activist Joseph Williams at 56th and Aberdeen streets on Aug. 10, 2020.

In the wake of Englewood police shooting, a father of 5 goes viral on Twitter with a heartfelt video highlighting role activists played in defusing tensions between neighbors and police

August 10, 2020 at 6:49 p.m.

Social media stardom took Joseph Williams by surprise. The South Side community activist doesn't even have a Twitter account. But a college student's video of Williams talking about how he...

Art teacher Paul Dombrowski with his two cats, Romeo, left, and Rico, at his home on July 31, 2020, in Palatine. Dombrowski teaches art at Willow Bend Elementary in School District 15. He has diabetes, which puts him at greater risk of serious health issues should he contract the coronavirus.

Teachers who are at high risk from COVID-19 are anxious to know if they will be allowed to teach remotely: ‘It is a matter of life and death.’

July 31, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.

Paul Dombrowski has been teaching art at Willow Bend Elementary School in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows for 23 years, and it shows; he instinctively calls his students "my kids," and...

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