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Ukraine native Kateryna Shvartsman at Dwyer Park on Aug. 1, 2022, in Winnetka. Kateryna and her 12-year-old son Oleksandr fled war-torn Mariupol in March after narrowly surviving a blast that destroyed their apartment and shelling. They are the only members of their family to survive the war.

Ukrainian mother recounts the horrors of war as she and her son start a new life in Chicago suburbs. For them ‘there is no place to go back to.’

August 18, 2022 at 2:59 p.m.

Under heavy Russian shelling, Kateryna Shvartsman and her 12-year-old son Oleksandr hastily grabbed a few possessions and ran for cover to the basement beneath their apartment building in war-ravaged Mariupol,...

Un recepcionista responde una llamada en Hope Clinic For Women en Granite City, Illinois, el 27 de junio de 2022. Ahora que el aborto está prohibido en Missouri, las dos clínicas más cercanas están en Illinois: Hope Clinic for Women en Granite City y Planned Parenthood en Fairview Heights, que abrió en 2019 anticipándose a la prohibición.

Los abortos en Illinois para pacientes de otros estados se disparan. Y los tiempos de espera también

August 2, 2022 at 3:02 p.m.

Cientos de pacientes de otros estados abortan en las clínicas de Planned Parenthood en Illinois y los tiempos de espera para programar el procedimiento en la parte sur del estado...

The Planned Parenthood Fairview Heights Health Center, an abortion clinic a few miles from the Missouri border in Fairview Heights, Illinois, on May 6, 2022.

Abortions in Illinois for out-of-state patients have skyrocketed. And some wait times are exceeding three weeks

August 2, 2022 at 1:02 p.m.

Hundreds more out-of-state patients are having abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics in Illinois and wait times to schedule the procedure in the southern part of the state have spiked during...

Cornelius O'Malley, right, Kristine Brown and her 9-year-old daughter, Gabriella, and other anti-abortion protesters from the Pro-Life Action League and the Rockford Family Initiative participate in a "Face the Truth" Day on July 13, 2022, in Loves Park.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin physicians are traveling to Illinois to provide abortions, increasing access to the procedure after the fall of Roe v. Wade

July 15, 2022 at 6:06 a.m.

Wisconsin medical providers are traveling across state lines to provide abortions in Illinois, expanding access to the procedure after the recent fall of Roe v. Wade. Several new abortion clinics...

Members of the community attend an interfaith service on July 10, 2022, at Glencoe Union Church after seven people were killed on July Fourth during a mass shooting in Highland Park.

Highland Park shooting: 6 dead and 2 dozen others shot at parade; suspect arrested

July 5, 2022 at 8:38 a.m.

On an idyllic summer morning, from a rooftop high above the Highland Park Independence Day parade, a gunman aimed down at the floats and lawn chairs and strollers and opened...

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul participate in a roundtable discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and severely restricting abortion rights across the country on June 30 in Chicago.

After overturn of Roe, Illinois abortion clinics say more medical providers are urgently needed to meet out-of-state demand

July 2, 2022 at 11:39 a.m.

With Roe v. Wade overturned, Illinois abortion providers are trying to shore up enough medical staff to handle the anticipated influx of patients traveling for the procedure from other states...

People march in protest through downtown Chicago on June 25, 2022.

With Roe overturned, Illinois — a Midwest refuge for abortion care — prepares for influx of patients from other states

June 24, 2022 at 6:59 p.m.

Illinois' role as a haven of abortion care in the Midwest was magnified Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a watershed decision that reverses nearly a...

Activistas contra el aborto chocan con activistas por el derecho al aborto durante una manifestación frente a la Corte Suprema el 23 de junio de 2022 en Washington.

Con Roe anulado, Illinois se prepara para la afluencia de pacientes de otros estados

June 24, 2022 at 10:34 a.m.

Una floreciente organización sin fines de lucro de Illinois comenzó a ofrecer vuelos gratuitos a bordo de pequeños aviones de pasajeros para ayudar a las pacientes a viajar a sus...

With Roe overturned, a new Illinois nonprofit has begun providing free light aircraft flights for patients traveling to get an abortion

June 24, 2022 at 7:23 p.m.

A burgeoning Illinois nonprofit has begun providing free flights aboard small passenger airplanes to help patients travel to their abortion appointments, a new means of reproductive health care access that's...

Heather Booth, who started the Jane Collective, at her home in Washington, D.C.

Abortion profoundly shaped the lives and work of these 8 Illinois women. Here are their stories.

June 24, 2022 at 5:03 p.m.

In summer 1966, 17-year-old Leta Dally and her mother were driven by a stranger to an undisclosed location on Chicago's South Side, where the recent high school graduate had an...

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