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Midnight Circus members, including Bella Diaz, center, gather in a circle in preparation for a show on Oct. 1, 2022, in Humboldt Park.

Meet Isabella Diaz. Dancer, musician, and Chinese pole and hoop jumper, now touring with Midnight Circus.

October 7, 2022 at 4:50 p.m.

Isabella "Bella" Diaz's profession is literally jumping through hoops. The Northalsted resident, who can harmonize with a guitar in hand and leap on poles, is touring with Chicago's Midnight Circus...

McKenzie Chinn finishes a scene during rehearsal of the play, "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" at Lookingglass Theatre.

Artists offer helping hand for emotional, mental healing in advance of World Mental Health Day

October 5, 2022 at 1:11 p.m.

Saturday was a jaunty fall evening with tons of foot traffic outside the doors of the Lookingglass Theatre on Michigan Avenue. Stepping inside the famous Water Tower Water Works building...

The Sex Ed Initiative members Ava Gonzalez, from left, Irene Sooah Park and Sarah Wheeler helped create the sex education curriculum, "Shattering the Taboo" that they say is more inclusive and comprehensive. The organization hopes the curriculum will be adopted by schools in Illinois.

Meet the Illinois youth taking sex education curriculum into their own hands with their handbook

September 26, 2022 at 5:01 p.m.

Northbrook resident Irene Sooah Park remembers educators and other adults treating sex education as something that should never be talked about outside the classroom. It was during middle school that...

A group of people with the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization board a bus to travel to Washington, D.C., for the Equity or Else Campaign festival Sept. 22, 2022.

Journey for Justice Alliance tells Congress it’s ‘Equity or Else’ when it comes to quality of life for all

October 24, 2022 at 12:10 p.m.

On Thursday, Jitu Brown, national director for Journey for Justice Alliance (J4J), queried people at the nation's capital with questions like: "Raise your hand if you've ever experienced a slumlord....

Photographer Peter Vagt celebrates Morton Arboretum’s centennial with book tribute, ‘Light Through the Trees’

September 26, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

Twenty years, 84 pictures. That's how long it took photographer Peter Vagt to get all the images that showcase the majesty of the landscape that is the Morton Arboretum —...

Supporters of the United Farm Workers join a protest with Ald. Dick Simpson in the parking lot of the Jewel Grand Bazaar at 5320 S. Pulaski Road in Chicago, calling for the boycott of lettuce, grapes and wine sold at Jewel, on Sept, 6, 1975.

Dick Simpson, a fixture in Chicago’s political and academic spheres for more than 50 years, is retired and looking forward to life outside a UIC classroom.

September 23, 2022 at 9:58 p.m.

Dick Simpson has been an institution within an institution for 55 years as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Simpson, UIC professor emeritus of political science, has...

Illinois Humanities funds over a dozen ‘Envisioning Justice’ art projects focused on mass incarceration

September 23, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Five years ago, nonprofit Illinois Humanities asked state residents to imagine a world without mass incarceration, a city without jails. This initiative to think about criminal justice as something more...

Dante Carter, 8, and Connie Branch watch as doctoral student Sophia Huang of the molecular engineering department, left, and a volunteer demonstrate how polymers form during the South Side Science Festival at the University of Chicago on Sept. 17, 2022.

University of Chicago hosts first South Side Science Festival for family to connect with STEM, increase diversity and help with science literacy.

September 19, 2022 at 4:21 p.m.

Before noon on a recent Saturday, dozens of families were walking through University of Chicago's science quad, enjoying the institution's first South Side Science Festival. A sea of the baby...

Author Erika Sánchez teaches her class at DePaul University on Sept. 15, 2022.

Chicago author Erika Sánchez talks new memoir, motherhood and ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’: ‘I didn’t want to write a sequel’

September 19, 2022 at 12:11 p.m.

Sometimes we read books differently. Sometimes it's for escapist purposes, other times it's for knowledge we seek and still other times, we pore over a storyteller's words to taste them,...

Tavis Grant, acting national executive director of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, is seen at Abundant Living Christian Center church in Dolton on Sept. 9, 2022, with donated water to be sent to people in Jackson, Mississippi.

Bishop Tavis Grant named Rainbow/PUSH’s acting national executive director: ‘It’s a tremendous opportunity to do some building and be creative’

September 19, 2022 at 1:39 p.m.

If you've been in Chicago for any period of time, you've seen the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and odds are right by his side was Bishop Tavis Grant. When Jackson was...

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