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LaSaia Wade, 33, founder of the black-led LGBTQ center Brave Space Alliance on the South Side, is seen at home in Sauk Village on June 4, 2020.

Transgender activist LaSaia Wade has made her South Side LGBTQ center a safe haven, where protesters can get food, water and first aid

June 5, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

Some of the protesters who come to the Brave Space Alliance LGBTQ center in Hyde Park have been shot with rubber bullets or beaten with nightsticks, says executive director LaSaia...

Motorcyclist strut their stuff during the 43rd Annual Gay Pride Parade on Chicago's North Side Sunday, June 24, 2012.

Celebrating Pride Month without parades, fests and bar-hopping

June 4, 2020 at 11:19 a.m.

It's a family reunion for LGBTQ Chicago. It's a citywide celebration that draws 1 million people into streets transformed by music and laughter, pink hair and washboard abs, rainbow flags...

Dr. Mark Cichon stands outside Loyola University Medical Center's emergency department May 27, 2020.

As non-COVID-19 patients return to Chicago-area emergency rooms, doctors see skyrocketing blood pressure and other side effects of delays in care. ‘It’s terrible, and it’s frightening.’

May 27, 2020 at 5:21 p.m.

One patient ran out of medication during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended up in the Loyola University Medical Center emergency room with dangerously high blood pressure. Others, unwilling or unable...

Some people are video-dating (via FaceTime, Skype, dating apps, etc.) during the coronavirus stay-at-home order. Rachael Jimenez, cq, age 30, is seen on the North Side of Chicago on Friday, May 15, 2020. She started video-dating during the pandemic and has been in regular communication with one of her video dates for about 2 months. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Single Chicagoans are turning to video dating in a big way during the coronavirus pandemic. And geography is no longer a barrier.

May 19, 2020 at 8:10 p.m.

Chicagoan Rachael Jimenez has gone on first dates without ever leaving her couch. She has had the pivotal "Are we seeing each other exclusively?" conversation with a man she has...

A group of Northwestern ICU nurses in their 50s and 60s, who are called the Old Dolls, stand outside the Galter Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on May 5, 2020.

At Northwestern, members of a tightknit group of veteran ICU nurses, age 58 and up, are signing on for COVID-19 duty. Meet the ‘Old Dolls.’

May 13, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.

Intensive care unit nurse Raquel "Rocky" Collanto is 63 and cares for her 91-year-old mother, so when COVID-19 patients began to arrive at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, her supervisor offered her...

Manny's employee Alma Vega delivers food to customer Pat Considine on March 13, 2020.

Tipping in the era of the coronavirus: Here’s what to give the grocery or restaurant delivery person, the mail carrier and the plumber

May 18, 2020 at 3:34 p.m.

The Instacart workers who bring Lee Goldstein her groceries are usually women in their 20s or 30s. Goldstein wonders if they've lost their jobs due to the coronavirus epidemic. She...

The "Animal Crossing" video game allows you to escape to your own little island paradise and create a home there. Nintendo advertises "Animal Crossing" as an antidote to the stress of pandemic living.

Americans are drinking quarantinis with Cuomosexuals. Your guide to quarantine culture.

April 30, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Who needs car crashes and machine guns when you can be picking peaches on your own sun-splashed island? The video game everyone's talking about during quarantine is the unabashedly mild-mannered...

People march June 30, 2019 at the 50th Chicago Pride Parade.

Chicago Pride Parade, 3rd largest in the U.S., has been postponed due to the coronavirus

April 22, 2020 at 5:23 p.m.

Chicago's annual Pride Parade, which draws a million people to city streets, has been postponed due to the novel coronavirus. New York and San Francisco had previously announced that their...

His dying wife wrote a viral essay, ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband.’ Now Chicagoan Jason Rosenthal is telling his story of love and loss

April 21, 2020 at 2:53 p.m.

Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal was dying of ovarian cancer when she wrote an essay about her beloved husband, Jason. She told readers how she fell in love with him...

A goldfinch in Mary Kortas' Chicago backyard bird feeder April 16, 2020.

Backyard birding is having a moment thanks to the coronavirus, with homebound Chicagoans spotting everything from great horned owls to fiery cardinals and canary-yellow finches

April 16, 2020 at 2:59 p.m.

At her brick ranch in Ingleside, Kersten "Chuckie" McNeill enjoys daily visits from a 4-foot tall, crimson-crowned sandhill crane that taps gently on the window, as if delivering a message...

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