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Richard Pfeiffer, a real estate agent, was coordinator of the Chicago Pride Parade for more than 40 years. He is shown discussing the parade at a news conference in 2016.

‘He was a giant’: Chicago gay rights pioneer Richard Pfeiffer ran the city’s iconic Pride Parade for more than 40 years

October 9, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

He wasn't loud or imposing, but he seemed unstoppable as he took the Chicago Pride Parade from its ragtag beginnings in the 1970s to the rainbow-bright explosion of joy and...

Around 500 people gather to meditate Oct. 1, 2019, near Maximo the titanosaur at the Field Museum during the Big Quiet, a mass meditation movement that grew out of a New York loft. The Chicago mediation gathering is one of 10 stops for the Big Quiet tour.

Hundreds of Chicagoans meditate with Máximo the titanosaur

October 2, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.

Hundreds of Chicagoans showed up for a mass meditation at the Field Museum on Tuesday night, the first event in a national tour by the Big Quiet, a New York...

Meditating with hundreds of other people and a 122-foot dinosaur named Máximo? It’s called the Big Quiet, and it happens Tuesday night in Chicago.

October 1, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

Jesse Israel has meditated with thousands of people — on the top of the World Trade Center, at Fenway Park and under the iconic 94-foot fiberglass whale at the American...

Pamela Robinson, 48, hula hoops during a gathering of the 40+ Double Dutch Club at Community Park on Sept. 12, 2019, in Country Club Hills.

Remember double Dutch? Thousands are joining jump rope clubs inspired by a suburban Chicago woman’s Facebook post

September 25, 2019 at 7:34 a.m.

Pamela Robinson was feeling sad and discouraged that spring day in 2016. She was going through a difficult time in her marriage, she said, and struggling with her role as...

Here are some simple fixes for the array of odd, oblivious or downright inconsiderate behaviors endured by expectant moms.

Beyond ‘Baby on Board’ buttons on the CTA: 5 more things we can do for pregnant women in Chicagoland

September 18, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

The CTA's new Baby on Board campaign, in which travelers are encouraged to give up their seats to pregnant women wearing distinctive blue buttons, got us thinking: Are there other...

A writer from Illinois with a genetic disorder was made fun of online for her looks. She fired back with a series of cheerful selfies that went viral.

September 23, 2019 at 1:58 p.m.

After Illinois freelance writer Melissa Blake wrote an anti-Trump op-ed piece for CNN last month, critics fired back with comments about her looks, calling her fat, referring to her as...

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‘He was a giant’: Chicago gay rights pioneer Richard Pfeiffer ran the city’s iconic Pride Parade for more than 40 years

Hundreds of Chicagoans meditate with Máximo the titanosaur

Meditating with hundreds of other people and a 122-foot dinosaur named Máximo? It’s called the Big Quiet, and it happens Tuesday night in Chicago.

Remember double Dutch? Thousands are joining jump rope clubs inspired by a suburban Chicago woman’s Facebook post

Beyond ‘Baby on Board’ buttons on the CTA: 5 more things we can do for pregnant women in Chicagoland

A writer from Illinois with a genetic disorder was made fun of online for her looks. She fired back with a series of cheerful selfies that went viral.

‘We think we have some lungs for you’: Elburn woman receives rare third double-lung transplant

‘I felt hopeless and useless’: Depression is on the rise among 20-somethings, and no one knows for sure why

University of Chicago student who bit her would-be attacker acted in keeping with new studies on sexual assault

Chicago shelter cat — who wears a diaper — gets her 15 minutes of fame