Stacy St. Clair – Page 28

Donte Blackmon, right, a cook at Roseland Hospital, takes three pizzas from Rafael Corona, of Gianna's Pizza that was donated on May 9, 2020.

Food, iPads, care packages part of groundswell of donations to Roseland hospital following Tribune story

May 11, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Vanessa Williams-Johnson was having a rough day. The principal of W.E.B. DuBois Elementary School near the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood still goes in to manage remote learning efforts and help distribute...

Scherina Seaton, critical care nurse, at Loretto Hospital, from left, Carol Bailey, respiratory therapist, at OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center, and Adam Gomez, emergency department technician, at Loretto Hospital, all in April 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

Exhausted, scared and committed: These are the faces on the front lines of Chicago’s COVID-19 battle

June 23, 2022 at 2:19 p.m.

Scherina Seaton, critical care nurse, at Loretto Hospital, from left, Carol Bailey, respiratory therapist, at OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center, and Adam Gomez, emergency department technician, at Loretto...

Illinois National Guard members, the Polish army medical delegation, and medical staff pose for a photo at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village.

After years of fighting alongside the Illinois National Guard, the Polish military deploys a team to help fight COVID-19 in the Chicago area

April 30, 2020 at 12:08 p.m.

For the past 17 years, the Polish military has served alongside Illinois National Guard members in Iraq and Afghanistan as their armies battle an unconventional, hard-to-break enemy. So when Polish...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Chicagoans cope with another month at home: closing a pancake house, missing students and setting up routines

April 24, 2020 at 8:49 p.m.

OK, campers. Rise and shine. And don't forget your booties. Because it's cold out there today. It's just another Groundhog Day in Illinois, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker has extended the...

Visitors walk along reopened Navy Pier on May 2, 2021, in Chicago.

Illinois residents will be required to cover their faces in public starting May 1

April 23, 2020 at 7:41 p.m.

Illinois residents will be required to wear masks in public starting late next week to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker made good on...

Anthony Gay, a former Illinois inmate who was in solitary confinement for decades, has started a blog with tips for coping with stay-at-home order.

Long car rides, motivational stories and Adele: Man who spent two decades in solitary confinement starts blog with tips for coping with stay-at-home order

April 21, 2020 at 11:23 a.m.

Anthony Gay knows what it's like to have his freedom restricted, to crave human interaction, and to feel despair. But he survived his decadeslong ordeal. And, in the midst of...

Long car rides, motivational stories and Adele: Quad Cities man who spent two decades in solitary confinement starts blog with tips for coping with stay-at-home order

April 21, 2020 at 8:41 p.m.

Anthony Gay knows what it's like to have his freedom restricted, to crave human interaction and to feel despair. But he survived his decadeslong ordeal. And, in the midst of...

Roseland Community Hospital intensive care unit nurse Subu Kirugulige tends to a COVID-19 patient on April 15, 2020. On this afternoon, nine of the unit's ten beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients, with eight on ventilators.

‘Outgunned, outmanned and underfunded’: Inside Roseland hospital’s battle against the coronavirus

April 17, 2020 at 7:26 p.m.

Inside the Roseland Community Hospital intensive care unit, nurse Subu Kirugulige suctions secretions from the mouth of a COVID-19 patient, an unconscious middle-aged man who has been on a ventilator...

Mail carrier Jeff Smith wears a medical mask while working inside a Postal Service truck in the 1400 block of West Summerdale Avenue in Chicago on March 24, 2020.

Chicago-area mail carriers navigate coronavirus challenges: Customers eager to chat, the pain of postage-due notices and Postal Service’s financial collapse.

April 19, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

Postal carrier Melissa Rakestraw sighs when she sees a postage-due notice on an envelope along her suburban route. She digs into her purse, pulls out enough money to cover the...

Rush University Medical Center staff assist a COVID-19 patient in the ICU on April 7, 2020

Rush University Medical Center was built for a moment like this. Take a look inside the calm at the center of Chicago’s coronavirus storm.

April 9, 2020 at 4:49 p.m.

Dr. Yanina Purim-Shem-Tov shoulders a lot as she helps lead the emergency department at Rush University Medical Center amid the coronavirus crisis. The grueling 70-hour workweeks. An ever-evolving understanding of...

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