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Shannon Vargas, a waitress at The Original Pancake House, holds up the receipt that shows a $2,020 tip.

Oak Lawn waitress, a single mom living in a hotel, says $2,020 tip will jump start a better life

January 17, 2020 at 5:23 p.m.

Shannon Vargas spent 2019 serving pancakes with a smile by day and struggling to keep a roof over her family's head by night. The once homeless single mom, who is...

Film exploring risks, benefits and cultural aspects of circumcision to be screened in Morgan Park and at UIC

January 17, 2020 at 2:08 a.m.

New parents generally have questions. Among them may be whether to circumcise their newborn son. "Depending on a person's background or culture, they may already know what they will choose,"...

The FCC recently approved setting up a three-digit hotline for suicide prevention, although it could take 18 months before 988 is up and running. Meanwhile, people in distress can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Shepard High School teacher tweets to current, former students contemplating suicide: ‘You have someone in me’

January 13, 2020 at 9:50 a.m.

Social media is often considered a contributing factor to the current spike in suicide across this country, but a local educator is using it to form a network of support...

Thomas Kienzle takes down a Santa from Dominic Kowalczyk's Christmas display in Tinley Park.

Cleaning up this massive Tinley Park holiday display requires the help of friends and family. ‘But it’s worth it.’

January 10, 2020 at 1:49 p.m.

The party's over. And for Dominic and Alyssa Kowalczyk and their extensive network of family and friends, that means the real work is just beginning. Tearing down and packing away...

As hard as it is to be a caregiver for an aging parent, it is always, always more difficult to be the one aging. (Dreamstime/TNS)

The caregiver’s heartache: ‘As tough as it is to be you, always, always it is harder to be them’

January 5, 2020 at 12:21 a.m.

Once, they were larger than life -- your heart, your world, your constant. So strong, so steady you thought they'd never age, let alone grow old. But the muscles they...

Stagg High School senior Peter Gordan holds a milkweed fluff that has been separated from seeds. (Donna Vickroy/Daily Southtown)

Palos teen on quest to save monarch butterfly plans second conservation expo at Stagg High School

January 21, 2020 at 7:51 a.m.

Peter Gordan was just 5 when he first took the monarch butterfly under his wing. He'd learned from a picture book that milkweed is a valuable food source for the...

Eisenhower teacher Cheryl Sansone shows two drawings, one on the left before surgery and the one on the right after the neurostimulators were implanted to help alleviate essential tremors.

Eisenhower science teacher demonstrates how stimulators implanted in her brain alleviate uncontrollable shaking

December 30, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

It's just after 8 a.m. and Cheryl Sansone's forensic science class is about to see how medical technology can change a person's life. Inside the Eisenhower High School lab, where...

Seven years ago, Marie Jarrell started the Sunbow Foundation, an organization that delivers small acts of kindness that reap big results. (Donna Vickroy/Daily Southtown)

Good Neighbors: Marie Jarrell’s Sunbow Foundation lights the darkness with small acts of kindness, generosity

December 26, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

Note: Anger, divisiveness and discord may have dominated the headlines in 2019, but as the late Fred Rogers once said, even in scary times, there is goodness. In this year...

Good Neighbors: Patty Ellison lost her son to overdose and now teaches Naloxone training through Almost Home

December 27, 2019 at 9:26 a.m.

Note: Anger, divisiveness and discord may have dominated the headlines in 2019, but as the late Fred Rogers once said, even in scary times, there is goodness. In this year...

Marlene Chavez helps a person with select food at Operation Blessing in Alsip. (Gary Middendorf-Daily Southtown)

Good Neighbors: Chavez family is dedicated to helping Operation Blessing feed the hungry

December 24, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Note: Anger, divisiveness and discord may have dominated the headlines in 2019, but as the late Fred Rogers once said, even in scary times, there is goodness. In this year...

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