Darcel Rockett

Dr. Roberto Carlos Montoya Barraza talks with Erika Cervantes Diaz at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington on Oct. 21, 2022.

A Round Lake woman with breast cancer faced barriers to care. But after her trip to Mexico and back, Advocate Good Shepherd Breast Cancer Center came to her aid.

October 27, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

A lack of health insurance and a lump in Erika Cervantes Diaz's left breast sent her running to the city of Zamora in Michoacán, Mexico, for help in 2021. The...

Alejandro Sánchez mueve varios espejos de pared para colocarlos en los estantes de su trabajo en la tienda dd's Discounts en Cicero, Illinois, el 3 de octubre de 2022. Sánchez asiste a Urban Autism Solutions West Side Transition Academy, una organización sin fines de lucro que brinda capacitación vocacional y colocación laboral a los estudiantes de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago con autismo y desafíos relacionados del oeste de la ciudad.

Gente con autismo progresa en la fuerza laboral

October 26, 2022 at 2:04 p.m.

A Aldo Suárez, de 21 años, del lado sur de Chicago, le gusta jugar Halo. ¿Otro de sus favoritos? Construir vehículos McLaren con sets de Lego Technic. Y prefiere las...

3Arts Awards marks 15 years with nearly $500,000 in grants to women, artists of color and artists with disabilities

October 29, 2022 at 10:58 a.m.

Peregrine Bermas was having a not-so-stellar day before the call about being awarded a $30,000 grant from 3Arts, a nonprofit grant-making organization that has distributed $5.8 million in funds since...

Antwione Allen, site coordinator for Englewood STEM Union League Boys & Girls Clubs, sets up for senior night with the volleyball team on Oct. 5, 2022.

Union League Boys & Girls Clubs will use $5 million to expand inroads made in Englewood schools

October 24, 2022 at 4:22 p.m.

Tiara Gaines' son Jamal loves gardening, a task he uses at Englewood STEM High School and in his part-time job with Grow Greater Englewood, a food and land sovereignty nonprofit....

Aldo Suarez, second from right, takes part in introductions along with Alejandro Sanchez, seated, second from left, at Urban Autism Solutions West Side Transition Academy in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2022. Urban Autism Solutions, a nonprofit that provides vocational training and job placement to Chicago Public Schools students with autism and related challenges from the West Side.

While much of the world is centered on the Great Resignation and quiet quitting, those on the spectrum continue to make employment inroads with the help of Urban Autism Solutions.

October 21, 2022 at 3:28 p.m.

Aldo Suarez, 21, of Little Village likes to play the video game Halo. Another favorite? Building McLaren vehicles with Lego Technic sets. And he prefers the older "Matrix" movies, Courage...

Al Sharpton poses for photos at the AMC River East 21 movie theater in Chicago before a screening of the documentary "Loudmouth."

‘Loudmouth’ shows Al Sharpton’s impact on the civil rights movement and his role as a voice for the Black community: ‘I’m the blow-up man’

October 20, 2022 at 3:24 p.m.

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks this line in the documentary "Loudmouth," the first on his legacy: "People call me to blow up issues. I'm the blow-up man and I don't...

Jeremy Catchings, 14, left, plants tulips alongside his mentor Kyle Schultz in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood on Oct. 15, 2022. Artist Amanda Williams planned the tulip planting event alongside Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative for a day of neighborhood beautification that is part of her project "Redefining Redlining."

MacArthur grant recipient Amanda Williams’ latest public work looks at the history of redlining through 100,000 red tulips.

October 17, 2022 at 11:00 p.m.

By spring, the intersection of 53rd Street and Prairie Avenue will be awash in a sea of red tulips — 6 acres of them to be exact, planted Oct. 15...

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