John Keilman – Page 29

St. Joseph High School plays Rockford Lutheran High School in the Class 3A semifinals at Carver Arena on March 20, 2015, in Peoria. The Illinois High School Association canceled the boys state basketball tournament due to concerns about the coronavirus.

Impact of coronavirus concerns forces IHSA to cancel state basketball tournament, other high school events

March 12, 2020 at 11:00 p.m.

The Illinois High School Association, hours after pledging to continue with the boys state basketball tournament despite a cascade of coronavirus-related cancellations, pulled the plug on the event Thursday night....

A belted kingfisher sits in a branch above the rushing waters of Salt Creek, in Oak Brook, in 2011.

Could the belted kingfisher, an orange and blue predatory bird, become the University of Illinois’ new mascot?

March 10, 2020 at 6:02 p.m.

The idea came to Spencer Hulsey in a doodle. During a physics discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she idly sketched a belted kingfisher, a blue and orange...

Violet Mendez, 15, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pitches during "MLB Grit: Girls ID Tour" at UIC.

‘I just want to keep on going.’ Raised on America’s pastime, more female athletes are resisting the siren call of softball to stick with baseball.

March 6, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.

Giselle Martinez has played baseball since she was 4, always the lone girl on a team of boys. She loves the sport, but with her freshman year approaching at Lindblom...

Custodian Junior Rodriguez wipes a restroom door handle with a disinfectant spray at Frost Junior High School in Schaumburg.

How Chicago-area schools are — or aren’t — dealing with the coronavirus

March 4, 2020 at 8:54 a.m.

As the coronavirus spreads in the Chicago area, some schools are proactively scrubbing down desks, doorknobs and other high-touch surfaces where experts say the virus can live for days. While...

A person smokes marijuana at a private residence in the West Loop on Jan. 25, 2020.

Think marijuana isn’t addictive? Former users say think again.

March 2, 2020 at 12:41 p.m.

In the basement of the Mustard Seed, a red brick building in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood that hosts dozens of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings each week, a handful of people gathered...

Think marijuana isn’t addictive? Former users say think again.

March 2, 2020 at 7:11 p.m.

In the basement of the Mustard Seed, a red brick building in Old Town that hosts dozens of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings each week, a handful of people gathered on a...

Marni Yang, 51, in the library at Logan Correctional Center on Feb. 25, 2020, in Lincoln, Illinois.

Marni Yang wins right to test mystery fingerprint that lawyer says could ID ‘real killer’ of Rhoni Reuter, ex-Bear Shaun Gayle’s pregnant girlfriend

February 28, 2020 at 10:54 a.m.

The attorney for Marni Yang won the right Thursday to test a mystery fingerprint he said "could reveal the identity of the real killer" of Rhoni Reuter, even as Lake...

Naloxone HCI, also known as Narcan, helps to avoid overdose deaths.

Overdose deaths are dramatically down in one Chicago-area county. Here’s how it is tackling the opioid crisis.

February 20, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.

As opioid-related deaths remain stubbornly high across the Chicago area, one corner of the region is bucking the trend. McHenry County has seen the deaths drop dramatically over the last...

The building at 3830 W. 95th St. in Evergreen Park where Dr. Van Koinis had a practice.

Cook County officials probing whether pediatrician who killed himself had been falsifying vaccination documents for patients

February 12, 2020 at 6:57 a.m.

Cook County sheriff's police are investigating whether an Evergreen Park pediatrician who committed suicide last year had been falsifying documents for parents who did not want to vaccinate their children,...

Ryan Mains, of Huntley, trains for an ultra-marathon in the woods of Veteran Acres Park on Dec. 11, 2019, in Crystal Lake. Mains will run more than 120 km next May, 1 km for each firefighter who committed suicide in 2019. Mains suffers from PTSD as as a result of his work as a combat medic in the armed forces as well as 14 years as a Woodstock paramedic/firefighter.

From bankruptcy to suicide, PTSD can wreck the lives of first responders. A Woodstock firefighter wants to change that.

January 3, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

The morning sky was the color of lead, the air was barely above freezing and the only sound was the crunch of dead leaves as Ryan Mains began a 10-mile...

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