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Column: ‘Stranger Care’ is a stunning love letter to the author’s foster daughter, and is Sally Field’s pandemic reading

May 14, 2021 at 3:31 p.m.

"Stranger Care" is a love letter to a baby loved and then surrendered. It's a heartbreaking memoir that, if you let it, will change the way you understand love and...

Roscoe Village resident Marci Sieracki pulls a lasagna out of the oven while her daughter Charlotte watches on Nov. 25, 2020. Sieracki bakes and delivers lasagna for free to health care workers and other people impacted by COVID-19 as part of a national Lasagna Love movement.

Column: This Mother’s Day, let’s celebrate all the healing and caretaking taking place during a pandemic

May 4, 2021 at 12:29 p.m.

This Mother's Day will be marked by who is not there. About 577,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Mothers and grandmothers. Children and grandchildren. We know that 40,000 kids under...

Some teens may not want their decision day news shared on social media.

Column: College decision day means Facebook feeds filled with proud parent posts. But what if your kid isn’t into them?

May 3, 2021 at 12:56 p.m.

We spent the past 14 months filling our Facebook feeds with statistics and warnings and deeply personal, often terrible experiences brought on by a pandemic. College decision day — May...

Lee Downing embraces her 10-year-old son Liam after being reunited following an active shooter training drill at Maryland Hall on Dec. 11, 2019. The drill was part of an active shooter training program organized by Anne Arundel County's Office of Emergency Management.

Column: Active shooter drills could get a lot less graphic if bill becomes law in Illinois. Here’s hoping.

April 30, 2021 at 2:07 p.m.

Illinois schools may soon dramatically alter the way they perform active shooter drills, leading the way for other states to adopt methods that, ideally, leave students and staff less traumatized...

Eating disorders among adolescents are way up during the COVID-19 pandemic, says one expert.

Column: Eating disorders have ‘exploded’ among young people during the pandemic. What one expert says parents should be doing.

April 29, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.

Since March 2020, when lockdown orders went into effect all over the United States, the National Eating Disorders Association helpline has experienced a dramatic uptick in calls — a 78%...

Motorcyclist strut their stuff during the 43rd Annual Gay Pride Parade on Chicago's North Side Sunday, June 24, 2012.

Column: Chicago’s Pride Parade is postponed again by COVID-19, but smaller celebrations will carry on.

April 28, 2021 at 9:06 a.m.

For the second year in a row, the last Sunday in June will come and go without a Pride parade winding its way down Halsted Street. Prior to COVID-19, Chicago's...

Mia Neal, right, Jamika Wilson, left, and Sergio Lopez-Rivera win the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Column: Mia Neal’s Oscar speech mentioned Northwestern barring Black students from campus housing. Here’s the story behind the YMCA that welcomed them.

April 27, 2021 at 5:37 p.m.

When Mia Neal accepted her Oscar on Sunday for makeup and hairstyling in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," she mentioned that her late grandfather, a Tuskegee Airman, was a Northwestern University...

Germany's Sarah Voss competes during the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Switzerland on April 21, 2021. German female gymnasts at the European championships made headlines for wearing bodysuits rather than leotards.

Column: A full bodysuit can’t combat sexualization in gymnastics. Only adults who sexualize athletes can do that.

April 26, 2021 at 11:14 a.m.

Gymnast Sarah Voss just made international headlines — not for her performance, but for what she was wearing. Voss, from Germany, competed at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships last week...

Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, left, and City Clerk Anna Valencia stand in City Hall on April 22, 2021. They are two of 22 women in elected office forming an Illinois Mamas Caucus with the goal of making Illinois the most mom-friendly state in the nation.

Column: Mamas Caucus wants to make Illinois the most mom-friendly state in the nation. ‘Who better to advocate for us than us?’

April 22, 2021 at 2:20 p.m.

Josina Morita was the first commissioner on Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to have a baby while in office and was told, at one point, to use an empty tech...

Protesters rally outside the 3rd Precinct on April 19, 2021, in Minneapolis as the murder trial against former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd advances to jury deliberations.

Column: George Floyd murder witness Darnella Frazier is a ‘stone catcher,’ and her courage can light our way forward

April 21, 2021 at 10:03 a.m.

Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general, called the bystanders who bore witness to George Floyd's murder "a bouquet of humanity." He gave a nod to prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell, standing behind...

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