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Doctors Kirk Cahill, left, and Joshua Katz, of the University of Chicago Medicine for Care and Discovery, accept a donation of food from Aztec Dave's food truck, made possible by an anonymous cash donation April 9, 2020.

How to say thank you to essential workers such as cashiers, nurses, mail carriers, bus drivers and janitors

April 10, 2020 at 9:02 a.m.

Americans are brainstorming with neighbors, posting questions on social media, and Googling for tips and advice. The question at the center of all the hand wringing and head scratching: How...

Therapist Trina Armstrong holds a therapy session with a client via videoconferencing at her home on April 6, 2020, in Niles.

Chicago therapists are switching to teletherapy to see stressed-out patients during coronavirus pandemic

April 7, 2020 at 12:50 p.m.

A front-line health care worker, wracked with fear. An international student stranded in the U.S. A Chicago Public Schools teacher aching for her students. They all want therapy, but with...

Erin Merryn plays with her three daughters, Abigail, from left, Claire and Hannah, and their cat Carrot at her Elgin home on July 22, 2019.

Carrot the cat has won Instagram fame — and a birthday call from Ellen — by letting her 3 favorite kids dress her in costumes and give her ‘spa treatments.’

April 3, 2020 at 3:17 p.m.

Carrot has always gone the extra mile for her favorite pint-size humans, ages 5, 3 and 1. The outgoing orange tabby has allowed the Merryn sisters of Elgin, Ill., to...

Elgin’s Carrot the cat has won Instagram fame — and a birthday call from Ellen — by letting her 3 favorite kids dress her in costumes and give her ‘spa treatments.’

April 1, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.

Carrot has always gone the extra mile for her favorite pint-size humans, ages 5, 3 and 1. The outgoing orange tabby has allowed the Merryn sisters of Elgin to push...

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‘I’m angry and I’m scared’: Chicago-area lupus patients face shortages of the life-prolonging drug Plaquenil, now in demand as a possible coronavirus treatment

March 25, 2020 at 1:24 p.m.

The lupus drug Plaquenil helps protect Julianne Taylor's kidneys and heart from her overactive immune system, and it beats back the fevers and exhaustion that once plagued her. "It's made...

A first grade class at Eugene Field Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois, spent a day writing letters to residents at Summit of Uptown, a senior living facility, in hopes of brightening their day. According to the <a href="/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-coronavirus-first-graders-letters-nursing-home-0320-20200320-dqq2cslamfghllwj3ie3dsence-story.html"target="_blank">baiduhai</a>, one student penned a letter hoping that the reader's "glasses will work."

Volunteers are sewing homemade face masks for Chicago area doctors and nurses: ‘It’s really heartwarming’

March 23, 2020 at 5:20 a.m.

During World War II, Chicagoans stepped up by growing their own vegetables. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, they're sewing face masks. Inspired by requests from local doctors and nurses,...

Fighting the coronavirus with disinfecting sprays and solutions: What works?

March 26, 2020 at 8:58 a.m.

Brand-name disinfectants are flying off store shelves, snatched up by shoppers looking for effective weapons against the novel coronavirus. But some disinfectants are better than others; some probably aren't necessary...

With toilet paper in short supply, Americans are snapping up water-spraying bidets

March 26, 2020 at 8:59 a.m.

Liz Smiley's bidet, a toilet paper alternative that sprays a cleaning stream of water, took a bit of getting used to, but now she says she wishes she had switched...

A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier had refused a temperature check and questionnaire intended to protect residents against the coronavirus, according to the Brookdale Oak Park senior living community.

Worried seniors at Brookdale Oak Park experienced delays in getting mail — including medication deliveries — after mail carriers refused corona virus-related temperature checks

March 18, 2020 at 12:54 p.m.

When Susan Cicelsky's mail didn't arrive at the Brookdale Oak Park senior living community last Thursday, she went to the front desk to find out why. There Cicelsky, 81, learned...

A pair of sandhill cranes cross the parking lot of the Chase Bank at 550 International Parkway in Heathrow, Florida, on Aug. 8, 2019.

‘The sandhills are coming!’: Big, bugling cranes are returning to local skies, sparking spring fever in winter-weary Chicagoans

March 16, 2020 at 2:20 p.m.

When Deb Quantock McCarey heard the unmistakable bugling cries of sandhill cranes flying high above her Oak Park home in early March, she ran outside to see them without even...

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