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Medical practice embraces patients with limited English-language skills

August 23, 2019 at 12:31 p.m.

When Marina Kolovos uprooted her life from Greece to Chicago in the late 1970s, she barely spoke English – and as a result, has almost exclusively seen Greek-speaking doctors ever...

Ex-boyfriend found guilty in 2012 shooting death of Hazel Crest woman

May 21, 2019 at 5:31 p.m.

A hoard of Erika Ellison's surviving family and friends rejoiced with hugs and tears after jurors convicted her ex-boyfriend of her murder , at the Cook County courthouse in Markham...

Industry-financed report sparks debate on merits and dangers of video gambling

May 21, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

Melynda Litchfield said her gambling addiction, which started at casinos in Joliet, once led her to consider taking her own life – but her love for her children and family...

A Maltese stares out of its cage at Chicago's Anti Cruelty Society after being rescued from a South Side puppy mill in 2009.

Federal judge dismisses complaint against Cook County ‘puppy mill’ ban

May 21, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly has dismissed a complaint that has been delaying enforcement of a Cook County ordinance banning the sale of animals from large commercial breeders,...

Maureen Walsh remembers her son Jimmy as she works to raise awareness about how all of us can help veterans battle depression and PTSD, Tinley Park, May 14, 2015. (Allen Cunningham/ Daily Southown)

Mother spotlights military suicide, in honor of late son

August 18, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

Maureen Walsh spends every Thursday night in the dusky bar at the Tinley Park Veterans of Foreign Wars post – mainly to honor her son, who took his life in...

Lala Miranda, pictured with her nephew, Geovani Miranda, 5, lives in a house next to where the abandoned property on 257 E. 140th St. once sat. "It was horrible," she said of the property, taken down by detainees serving in the sheriff's boot camp program. "I'd see raccoons sticking out, bricks were falling down. It wasn't safe for my kids to be out there."

Sheriff Tom Dart, officials celebrate demolition of abandoned homes

May 21, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.

Raccoons sticking out their heads, falling bricks and a "weird smell" are Lala Miranda's strongest memories of the abandoned house that used to sit next to her home in Dolton....

Chicago police and Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th, are holding a parents-only meeting to discuss the pitfalls that social media pose to kids and teens. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Thursday at St. John Fisher Grade School, 10200 S. Washtenaw Ave., Chicago.

Nude Snapchat selfie spurs discussion about minors’ use of social media

May 21, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

A girl from the Beverly community used the phone app Snapchat to text a nude photograph of herself to her boyfriend in Oak Lawn, who then used the app to...

Jury finds for sheriff’s office in suit over naked crime scene photos

August 18, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

The word "protocol" peppered closing arguments Friday morning at the Circuit Court of Cook County in the civil trial brought against the sheriff's department by the family of Jessica Mejia,...

Christina Tucker, formerly Christina Mejia, holds a photograph of her daughter Jessica who was killed by a drunk driver in a 2009 crash.

DUI victim’s mother takes stand in trial over naked crime scene photos

May 21, 2019 at 5:21 p.m.

Jessica Mejia's mother testified calmly at the Circuit Court of Cook County Thursday, but only until her attorney, Don Perry, asked her how she learned about her daughter's death in...

In this April 16, 2015, photograph, Christina Mejia holds a photograph of her daughter Jessica who was killed by a drunk driver. | Allen Cunningham/for Daily Southown.

Evidence technicians testify protocol was followed in photographing dead woman’s body

August 18, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Lipscomb warned jurors that images of 20-year-old Jessica Mejia's body that were about to be projected on a screen were "graphic" and "not the...

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