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Ivy Marcucci, 20, with her sister Mazzy, left, and parents Jared and Matia Marcucci on Aug. 5, 2019, at their Riverside home.

‘I want to talk about it’: College student from Riverside gets the same cutting-edge multiple sclerosis treatment as actress Selma Blair

August 6, 2019 at 2:13 p.m.

In the past, she had been able to explain away the occasional strange symptom — numbness on one side of her body, or an electric shock sensation in her spine....

Fans watch Metallica perform at the Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park in August 2015. The threat of damaging your hearing with outdoor music is real, says Chicago audiologist Michael Santucci.

Over a billion young people could lose hearing in the next 15 years, says WHO. Here’s how to protect your ears at Lollapalooza

July 31, 2019 at 7:16 p.m.

Ah summer: The sirens, the fireworks, the street noise, the blaring microphones at outdoor concerts! The threat of damaging your hearing during the summer is real, says Chicago audiologist Michael...

Whitney Young High School graduate Catherine Zdunek says the endangered alligator snapping turtle she named Roger was her "little baby."

‘A face only its mother could love’: Ugly, cranky, endangered alligator snapping turtles get boost from Illinois students, who raise and release them into the wild

July 27, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

North America's largest freshwater turtle can grow to more than 240 pounds, with a slimy, algae-crowned shell, gaping jaws capable of snapping a broomstick in half, and a hooked beak,...

Traci Cobb-Evans has her eyes examined June 27, 2019. Her right eye has 20/200 vision that can't be corrected. The lens of her left eye is covered with a cataract, except for a tiny pinhead opening that actually allows her to see fairly well.

As vaccine opposition grows, survivors of measles, mumps and rubella warn of lifelong effects, including vision loss, deafness: ‘How different my life would have been’

July 19, 2019 at 8:28 a.m.

As her fever rose higher and higher, Marsha Engle-Reinecke began to hallucinate. She could see black birds with big, sharp beaks, she recalled — there were hundreds of them, flying...

"Alligator Bob" brings in a small gator Aug. 24, 2010, that had made the Chicago River its home for a few days. It was captured under the Belmont Street Bridge.

Chicago alligator joins a long line of local reptiles that have stirred up trouble. Here are some of the most famous.

July 17, 2019 at 10:44 a.m.

He has inspired T-shirts, headlines and Twitter accounts. But if Chance the Snapper — the fugitive alligator that mesmerized Chicago during his long, strange swim in the murky waters of...

Myles Brady Davis and his wife, Precious, are expecting a baby in December. Both the Brady Davises are transgender.

‘We’re pregnant!’: High-profile transgender couple Myles and Precious Brady Davis are expecting their first child

July 9, 2019 at 7:18 p.m.

When Myles Brady Davis found out he was pregnant, he rejoiced with his wife, Precious. They held hands, they teared up. They sank to the living room floor and melted...

Clean The World CEO Shawn Seipler shows new soap bars made from soap thrown away at hotels in December 2011. The soap bars are shipped around the world to needy populations.

What’s so great about soap? It saves lives, says leader of aid organization that’s trying to deliver 500,000 bars to migrant detention centers

July 3, 2019 at 2:39 p.m.

It's not just ordinary citizens who are trying to donate soap and toothbrushes to detainees at federal migrant detention centers. Following reports of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, Clean the World,...

Julia Bauchwitz, left, meets her kidney donor, Hannah Goralski, for the first time July 1, 2019, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Chicago sisters honored late father by donating their kidneys to strangers, setting off a chain of 5 lifesaving transplants

July 3, 2019 at 4:56 p.m.

Mark Goralski was sick for most of his life, but that didn't stop the Naperville father of three from volunteering at a hospital or visiting children in prison. "He was...

The Mooseheart eaglets hadn't left the nest yet, but they were practicing their flying skills when they were photographed June 14, 2019.

A tale of lost love, mistaken identity, courageous single parenting — and bald eagles

June 18, 2019 at 3:59 p.m.

In the middle of an asphalt parking lot, atop a dead pine tree, lives a bald eagle that has endured real-life plot twists worthy of the steamiest soap opera. The...

Ali Stroker accepts the Tony Award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical for Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" at Radio City Music Hall on June 9, 2019, in New York.

‘I was just thrilled’: Chicago actors with disabilities respond to historic Tony win by Ali Stroker, who uses a wheelchair

June 11, 2019 at 3:51 p.m.

As an actress with dwarfism, Tekki Lomnicki knows what it's like to have directors look right past you at an audition. As a former theater camp instructor, she knows how...

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