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Members of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) encourage drivers to honk in support of Walgreens pharmacists as they demonstrate outside of a Walgreens store on April 19, 2024, in Bartlett. They were out protesting on behalf of about 900 Illinois Walgreens pharmacists who remain on the job despite not having a contract since May 31, 2023. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Walgreens pharmacists union to demonstrate outside 46 Chicago-area stores over the next month

April 19, 2024 at 12:34 p.m.

The National Pharmacists Association-LIUNA, which says it represents 900 Chicago-area Walgreens pharmacists, plans to demonstrate outside two or three stores a day from now until May 10.

One of more than two dozen people who have filed a lawsuit against former Endeavor Health gynecologist Dr. Fabio Ortega this week. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Another 26 women sue Endeavor Health and gynecologist Fabio Ortega, convicted of sexual abuse

April 17, 2024 at 5:02 p.m.

A total of 60 former patients have now sued former gynecologist Fabio Ortega, Endeavor and/or Swedish Hospital, where Ortega previously worked.

Walgreens announced another round of layoffs, without specifying the number of people. Reduction is expected to happen at Corporate Support Center. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Walgreens embarks on another round of layoffs

April 17, 2024 at 3:58 p.m.

The Deerfield-based company has been cutting jobs every few months over the last year.

Ericka Matos, right, and her attorney Tamara Holder listen to questions from the media during a press conference at Romanucci & Blandin Law office in Chicago on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Matos is suing Dr. Fabio Ortega and Swedish Covenant Health, contending he sexually assaulted her decades ago. Ortega pleaded guilty in 2021 to sexually abusing two former patients. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Attorneys call on AG’s office to criminally investigate former doctor Fabio Ortega and health systems where he worked

April 3, 2024 at 6:50 p.m.

The request came the same day that one of the women who is suing Ortega and Swedish Covenant Health spoke publicly for the first time.

UChicago Medicine residents and fellows filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a formal election to decide whether to unionize under the Committee of Interns and Residents. The University of Chicago along the Midway Plaisance on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

More than 1,000 UChicago Medicine residents, fellows move to unionize

April 6, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

The doctors filed a petition Monday morning with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a formal election to decide whether to unionize

Dr. Fabio Ortega, shown in March 2023 during a civil proceeding at the Daley Center, pleaded guilty in 2021 to sexually abusing two former patients. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

More patients sue former Endeavor Health gynecologist Fabio Ortega, alleging sexual assault

April 1, 2024 at 4:59 p.m.

A total of 34 former patients have now sued Ortega, Endeavor Health and/or Swedish Hospital alleging inappropriate conduct by the doctor.

School nurse Keri Personnete holds a child's inhaler in the nurse's office at the Barrington Early Learning Center in Barrington on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois moves to make it easier for schools to get asthma inhalers

March 21, 2024 at 6:35 a.m.

The medication can only be administered by school personnel who've gone through a training program.

The University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago's Hyde Park area is seen March 23, 2020. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Jury hits UChicago Medicine with $14 million verdict after boy’s death

March 14, 2024 at 4:48 p.m.

The wrongful death lawsuit accused the hospital of medical negligence leading up the boy's birth, resulting in brain injury and his subsequent death.

People walk past the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in the Streeterville neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Lurie reactivating MyChart after cyberattack

March 14, 2024 at 3:27 p.m.

Lurie took its phone, email and electronic medical record systems offline Jan. 31 after a cyberattack.

Nurses strike near the University of Chicago Medical Center on Sept. 20, 2019. (Jose M. Osorio/baiduhai)

Strike averted after nurses and UChicago Medicine reach agreement

March 11, 2024 at 5:48 p.m.

Nurses had been set to walk off the job for a one-day strike Thursday.

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