John Keilman – Page 27

Buffalo Grove High School junior Brandon Bowers, 17, works on his dad's Mercedes-Benz in his family's Buffalo Grove garage on April 23, 2020. He's doing work required for his auto diagnostics class.

You can learn math and English online, but how about pottery? Hands-on education challenged after COVID-19 closes schools

April 29, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.

Veronika Pesovic's sponge cake looked and tasted fine, but she knew something was off. It was denser than it should have been, and she wasn't sure how it ended up...

An aerial view of an empty playground at Doolittle Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. School playgrounds will stay empty longer, with the governor's announcement Friday that schools will not reopen during this academic year.

No prom, no graduation, more remote learning: Dashed hopes that Illinois schools would reopen this year are a particular blow for class of 2020

April 17, 2020 at 7:32 p.m.

Alexandria Gee was planning to wear red to prom, and she'd picked out another nice dress for other end-of-the-year events, like graduation and her last choir concert. Now all those...

Gene McNulty, a senior volleyball player from Marist High School, works out on his driveway in Oak Lawn on April 15, 2020.

Illinois high school athletes keep hope alive even as COVID-19 threatens to cancel season

April 17, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

Even though COVID-19 has shut down schools in Illinois and consigned students to their homes, the boys tennis teams at Jacobs and Huntley high schools went ahead with their scheduled...

Marni Yang, serving a life sentence for the murder of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, says in an emergency petition that coming into contact with COVID-19 would be, "a life-threatening event."

Marni Yang seeks release from prison, citing coronavirus threat

April 16, 2020 at 11:52 a.m.

Marni Yang, serving a life sentence for the murder of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, is seeking to be released from prison by Gov. J.B. Pritzker,...

Friends and neighbors sing during a vigil for Thomas E. Johnson and Leslie Ann Jones in Oak Park on April 15, 2020.

Cops probe deaths of attorneys — husband and wife — found in their Oak Park home. ‘Compassionate … welcoming … they were interested in helping people.’

April 15, 2020 at 11:29 p.m.

Two prominent attorneys were found dead in their Oak Park home Monday night under what authorities called "suspicious circumstances," though police Chief LaDon Reynolds said there was no reason to...

An election judge sanitizes markers at polling place in Chicago on March 17, 2020.

After Chicago poll worker dies from COVID-19 and others test positive, city warns voters they might have been exposed to virus at polling places

April 13, 2020 at 6:38 p.m.

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is notifying voters who cast their ballots in four locations around the city last month that they shared space with people who later tested...

The Crawford Coal Plant, where a smokestack was demolished April 11, 2020, pictured from the Little Village neighborhood on April 12.

As coronavirus fatalities drop, city investigates smokestack demolition that left Little Village filled with dust and new fears

April 13, 2020 at 7:09 a.m.

On a day of virtual Easter celebrations and a drop in COVID-19 fatalities that signaled hope, the city was investigating a demolition in Little Village that coated the neighborhood in...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds his daily briefing on the COVID-19 crisis from the Thompson Center on March 26, 2020.

Pritzker says bending of Illinois’ COVID-19 curve ‘may indeed be happening’ as deaths hit 6-day low

April 12, 2020 at 6:18 p.m.

Illinois recorded fewer COVID-19 deaths than it has seen in six days, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Sunday, raising hopes that the state has turned a corner in its fight against...

The former Holiday Inn in Itasca is shown last September.

Rumors of shuttered suburban hotel becoming coronavirus care center prove false, months after uproar over proposal to turn it into rehab facility

April 10, 2020 at 5:31 p.m.

The fate of a shuttered hotel in Itasca took another strange turn this week when local officials briefly thought it might be used to quarantine COVID-19 patients suffering mild symptoms...

Amber Gercken and her daughter Lily, 10, play the Nintendo game "Animal Crossing" outside of their home in Mokena on April 6, 2020. They are fans of the hit Nintendo game, which came out just as the coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders were announced.

‘It could not be more perfect for right now’: Whimsical video game world of ‘Animal Crossing’ flourishes amid coronavirus lockdowns

April 10, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.

Photographer Amber Gercken and her 10-year-old daughter Lily have been stuck in their Mokena townhouse since Illinois' stay-at-home order took effect. Yet as their physical world has contracted, a virtual...

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