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Experts urge parents to dicuss school safety drills with children to make sure they understand the plan in the event of a threat or lockdown.

‘There are bad people out there’: Update your family safety plan for the age of school shootings

December 12, 2018 at 5:00 a.m.

Last week’s news of soft lockdowns at Whitney Young High School in Chicago and at three schools in Wheaton offered reminders that the world has changed since the days when...

Homer Glen teen who has Down syndrome follows cheerleading passion all the way to nationals

December 11, 2018 at 4:50 p.m.

When 13-year-old Audrey Chisholm goes to the library, she looks for books on cheerleading. When the Homer Glen teen is on YouTube, she’s watching cheerleading videos. At school, she teaches...

Greg Ehrendreich puts on his boots, while his children Lucy, 8, and Sam, 6, finish up breakfast on Nov. 28, 2018, in Chicago. Ehrendreich usually takes his kids to school on a cargo bike and then rides to work.

Looking at winter through the eyes of Chicagoans who bike in blizzards and surf Lake Michigan

December 11, 2018 at 4:08 p.m.

As Chicago prepared to dig itself out from under 8 inches of snow Monday, Greg Ehrendreich peered wistfully at the snow-covered street outside his Logan Square home. He was still...

Santa Claus waves to the crowds during the Thanksgiving Day Parade down State Street on Nov. 22, 2018. Two upcoming dinners hosted by Autism Eats aim to make Santa visits easier for kids with autism.

For kids with autism, visiting Santa can be stressful. How one group is making it easier for families

December 12, 2018 at 2:07 a.m.

At a recent tree-lighting celebration in Lake Forest, 6-year-old Max Brown kept trying to run off and pet strangers’ dogs. Max, who has autism spectrum disorder, loves dogs, said his...

For introverts like Anna Treesara, the ceaseless socializing of the holiday season can pose special challenges.

8 ways for introverts to survive the holidays

June 16, 2019 at 5:03 p.m.

This year Anna Treesara will be joining forces with her fiance to host both their families for Thanksgiving. There will be turkey, mashed potatoes — and hours of conversation, a...

A study published Nov. 14, 2018, in The BMJ medical journal found that overweight people maintaining weight loss who were on a low-carbohydrate diet burned about 250 more calories per day than those on a high-carbohydrate diet.

‘All calories are not alike’: Cutting carbs instead of calories keeps weight off, study says

June 23, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

In a study of overweight people maintaining weight loss, those on a low-carbohydrate diet burned about 250 more calories per day than those on a high-carbohydrate diet. The study of...

Brent Webb, who served in Afghanistan, is featured in a new Veterans Day campaign called Lionhearted, which seeks to reduce the high veterans' suicide rate, at American Legion's Tattler Post in Chicago on Nov. 6, 2018.

Each day 17 veterans commit suicide. A new campaign featuring soldiers’ stories is trying to change that.

August 9, 2019 at 7:02 a.m.

In Afghanistan, Chris Groleau was a minesweeper — the soldier who walks ahead of his platoon, waving a long metal device back and forth over the ground, listening for the...

Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, is a faculty member at Northwestern University. She examines her mother's murder in her powerful new collection of poems, "Monument."

Her mother’s murder made her a poet: Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey’s career is tinged with tragedy

May 9, 2019 at 6:55 p.m.

Natasha Trethewey should be celebrating; her new book, “Monument: Poems New and Selected,” was longlisted for a prestigious National Book Award. But during an interview at an Evanston restaurant with...

Art and handcrafted furniture and textiles add a sense of well-traveled texture to this bedroom – and the tailored bedlinens let those elements shine.

‘It’s medically sanctioned violence and torture’: Intersex patients call for end to genital surgeries on children

December 11, 2018 at 8:35 p.m.

When Jennifer Pagonis was born in the winter of 1986, her parents brought her home to a wardrobe of pink and white, ruffles and frills. But three months later, Jennifer's...

Election judge Summur Roberts in Chicago, on Oct. 30, 2018.

Election judges — the unsung heroes of voting season

December 12, 2018 at 11:53 a.m.

Election judge Summur Roberts was aware that some of the voters at her suburban Hanover Park polling place believed that campaign workers were handing out literature too close to the...

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