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Margy Lindokken is in her eighth year of volunteering with Community Consolidated District 146's community based English as a Second Language program. (Donna Vickroy/Daily Southtown)

Good Neighbors: Margy Lindokken helps immigrants learn English, break through barriers

December 24, 2019 at 7:45 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...

Though they're threadbare and fading, Donna Vickroy pauses each Christmas to admire and celebrate her mother's hand-written recipes. (Donna Vickroy / Daily Southtown)

Column: My mother’s handwritten holiday recipes remind me how lucky I am to miss the people who are now gone

December 23, 2019 at 7:11 a.m.

They're threadbare and fading and some of the dishes I don't even like, but each Christmas I pull them out of storage and cherish the handwritten recipes my mother gave...

Volunteer Mike Ruffner works the domestic violence hotline at the Crisis Center of South Suburbia. Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Tinley Park. (Gary Middendorf-Daily Southtown)

Good Neighbors: Mike Ruffner uses counseling background to help those in throes of domestic violence

December 22, 2019 at 2:02 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...

Good Neighbors: Merri Fefles has a soft spot for seniors

December 20, 2019 at 2:57 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...

Marty Nolan stands inside Real Life Moment Newborn Photography Studio. Marty, a Santa at Water Tower Place, does candid photo sessions with children during the holiday season after his time downtown. Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, in Mount Greenwood.

Mount Greenwood’s Santa creates original photo ops in local studio

December 18, 2019 at 10:33 a.m.

How busy is Santa these days? Take a look in the mirror and times that by several million. And yet, somehow, he finds time to pose for keepsake photos with...

Cooper Walters thought he had a common stomachache but ended up going into septic shock.

Palos Hills teen hospitalized for septic shock ‘essentially died twice, and then went home two weeks later’

January 27, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

In the soft glow of the living room's holiday lights, Heather Walters fights back tears. Not a day goes by that the mother of two doesn't get weepy over the...

PAWS shelter invites public to consider fostering a homeless pet over Christmas holidays

December 10, 2019 at 11:13 a.m.

PAWS (Peoples Animal Welfare Society) in Tinley Park is asking the community to let shelter pets "come home for Christmas." Through a new short-term foster program called "Home for the...

Joe Matula, a PLOWS volunteer, takes a meal to one of the seniors on his route.

What to do in retirement? ‘We can do something for our neighbors,’ says this Palos couple

December 6, 2019 at 1:54 p.m.

It's bright and early Monday morning, and though there are a thousand other places a retired couple can be — lingering over breakfast? wintering in Florida? — Jan Hill and...

Margaret "Rone" Leja in August 2005, when she was a chemistry teacher working with in the chemistry lab at Mount Assisi Academy in Lemont.

Orland Park parish remembers teacher killed in hit-and-run while leaving Christmas party for ‘helping any way she could’

December 5, 2019 at 7:41 p.m.

Students and faculty at St. Michael School in Orland Park started Thursday with a somber prayer service remembering 61-year-old teacher Margaret "Rone" Leja, killed in a hit-and-run Wednesday night while...

Video series featuring Eisenhower, Thornwood teachers wins Emmy

December 5, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

An Illinois Education Association video series showcasing the dedication of three suburban Chicago teachers won an Emmy at the 61st annual Chicago/Midwest Regional Emmy Awards. The composite entry, which won...

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