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Reyna Ortiz, who is transgender and an activist, said the transgender community will survive even if federal recognition of transgender people is eliminated.

‘A huge step back’: Chicago transgender community reacts with anger to reported Trump plan to change gender definition

December 12, 2018 at 10:20 a.m.

Throughout Chicago on Monday, transgender people and their allies responded to the news that the Trump administration is considering eliminating federal recognition for transgender people with anger and defiance, confusion...

Delightful ‘The Legend of Greg’ follows a 13-year-old into Chicago sewers, plus more children’s books reviewed

May 9, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

“The Legend of Greg” by Chris Rylander, Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 352 pages, $16.99, ages 8-12 Blunt, stout and cursed by remarkable bad luck, 13-year-old Greg Belmont isn’t...

Bill Guest plays with his 19 month-old daughter, Freya Guest, in their backyard in Villa Park.

‘I wanted a baby:’ Single men are increasingly having biological children via surrogacy

December 13, 2018 at 6:26 a.m.

Bill Guest was about 30 when his biological clock kicked in. His friends were having kids left and right, and suddenly being a doting uncle wasn’t enough. Guest wasn’t particularly...

A call to action: 1 in 2 black men who have sex with men projected to be diagnosed with HIV if current infection rates persist

December 13, 2018 at 5:55 a.m.

At the Howard Brown Health clinic in Hyde Park, young black men who have sex with men are routinely diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “In my practice,...

Parental control apps let parents set time limits and schedules for phone use.

Want to limit your tween’s smartphone use this summer? There’s an app for that

December 13, 2018 at 5:49 a.m.

Nara Nayar has a modern-day superpower: She can shut down apps on her 12-year-old son’s phone remotely, without arguing or cajoling. Nayar and her husband, who live in Oak Park,...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel photographed Thursday Dec. 7, 2017 on the "L" platform at the Merchandise Mart station of the Brown line in Chicago.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s summer reading list has an unlikely inspiration: President Trump

May 9, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

At first glance, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s summer reading list is pretty much what you’d expect from this hard-charging reader of history, biography and literary fiction: two weighty books about the...

Marti Smith, 73, lives at the Town Hall Senior Apartments in Chicago. Smith moved into the LGBT senior facility in 2014.

New frontier for gay rights: Bias and bullying in senior housing

December 13, 2018 at 9:54 a.m.

Even before she began searching for senior housing, Marti Smith had heard the horror stories. Her gay friends told Smith, a lesbian, that when their partners entered assisted living the...

Children’s books: ‘Ghost Boys’ offers remarkable, kid’s-eye-view of violence

May 9, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

"Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Little, Brown, 224 pages, $16.99, ages 8-12 When we first meet 12-year-old Jerome, he's dead. Shot by a Chicago police officer who mistook his...

Amazon has launched a new Magic Word update to encourage young Alexa users to say please.

Amazon Alexa’s ‘magic word’ update aims to make young users more polite

August 24, 2019 at 4:20 a.m.

The demands started almost immediately: "Alexa, tell me a joke." "Alexa, tell me what the weather's like." "Alexa, play 'Despacito.'" When Chicagoan Heather Durham's three young daughters first started using...

From left: Joyce Carol Oates, Fredrik Backman and Jamila Woods.

‘A Man Called Ove’ author Fredrik Backman, novelist Joyce Carol Oates to headline Printers Row Lit Fest

December 13, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.

Best-selling authors Joyce Carol Oates and Fredrik Backman will be among the headliners at this year's Printers Row Lit Fest, June 9-10. The festival, which is owned by the Chicago...

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