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From left, Alysa Fox, Jeanina Payne-Baker and Lt. Nancy Mulvihill of the Richton Park Fire Department stand with Chief Mick Smith in the firehouse. " They gave me the opportunity to do what I'm good at," Mulvihill said. "Can you do the job? Good. Then you're a firefighter."

Female firefighters in Richton Park lead by example: ‘You don’t have to be a man to do this job’

March 1, 2023 at 5:09 a.m.

In 1991, Nancy Mulvihill was less than a year into her career as a firefighter, when she responded to a church carnival accident in Midlothian. Among those injured in the...

Cardinal Blase Cupich administers Communion during the Simbang Gibi Mass Friday night at Our Lady of St. Germaine Church in Oak Lawn.

St. Germaine in Oak Lawn welcomes Cardinal Blase Cupich for Simbáng Gabi Mass celebrating Filipino Catholic traditions

December 18, 2022 at 3:26 p.m.

Dressed in a floor length white robe and wearing a wooden cross around his neck, Kim Victoria fingered the blue beads of a bracelet sent to him by a cousin...

New mom finds she’s a ‘huge overproducer’ of milk, becomes ‘No. 1 donor’ to infants in need through area hospital

November 25, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Shortly after Brooke Spitale gave birth to her daughter Naomi last June, she began expressing milk in preparation for returning to work full time. "I discovered I'm a huge overproducer,"...

Tony Ogarek, center, instructs Lincoln-Way Central High School Automotive I students on inspecting a car's undercarriage for needed repairs last week at the school in New Lenox. The students are preparing to perform free vehicle inspections for older drivers.

Programs to keep older drivers safer behind the wheel offered in New Lenox, Burbank

March 12, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

With winter on the way, several programs are in the works to help keep older drivers safe and behind the wheel longer. A program in New Lenox puts teens to...

The Rev. Roy Belocura gives instructions to cross bearer Gabby Palma, 13, before the start of the 4th Annual Asian Community Mass at St. Julie Billiart Parish on Sunday in Tinley Park.

Asian Catholics, Cardinal Cupich converge in Tinley Park for celebration of diversity, community

September 12, 2022 at 3:51 p.m.

Wearing a long white robe and youthful high-topped tennis shoes, altar server Gabby Palma proudly carried a large metal crucifix while leading a special procession Sunday at St. Julie Billiart...

Former Army infantry Sgt. Matthew West and his wife, Cara, both of Beverly, thank a supportive crowd during a Chicago Soldiers fundraiser Saturday at The Meadows Golf Club in Blue Island.

Golfers gather in Blue Island to raise $35K for wounded veteran

August 22, 2022 at 4:54 p.m.

Sean Gore, a Chicago firefighter, played 14 holes with his buddies Dave Shobe and Tim Simmons, both pipefitters, at The Meadows Golf Club in Blue Island before the skies opened...

Amy Roach, of Chicago's West Beverly neighborhood, holds a portrait she painted of a pup pursuing a tennis ball underwater.

Beverly artist’s pet portraits put personalities on canvas

August 6, 2022 at 10:32 a.m.

Delaney, a black cat as dark and mysterious as his name suggests, winds his way through a labyrinth of canvases in Amy Roach's home studio. He then quietly settles in...

A monarch caterpillar munches on milkweed in the kitchen of Kay MacNeil's home in Frankfort. "Monarchs must have milkweed to survive. If you don't grow it, they won't come," she said.

Frankfort’s ‘Butterfly Lady’ sending out milkweed seeds in effort to help endangered monarchs

August 10, 2022 at 5:57 p.m.

Kay MacNeil, of Frankfort, describes herself as "a seriously deranged lover of caterpillars and butterflies." As a child, she came down with a terrible rash on her arms. Her family...

Annie Duggan and Jessie Carroll exchange contact information at a meeting hosted by the Beverly Area Planning Association to stop trees being cut down by the Chicago Department of Streets & Sanitation.

Beverly, Morgan Park residents organize Save the Trees campaign in fight to protect canopy

June 26, 2022 at 8:58 p.m.

Residents from the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods expressed outrage and concern last week over what they described as alarming numbers of trees being removed from the midways located between...

Bare earth and dead tree saplings show what Dennis and Annie Holtz believe to be the aftermath of herbicide drift on their organic farm in Beecher.

‘Toasted’ trees and curled leaves: Suburban growers face losses from herbicide drifting from lawns and commercial farms

June 24, 2022 at 2:47 p.m.

Annie and Dennis Holtz worked hard this spring to establish their organic farm on 10 and a half acres in Beecher. On the south side of Corning Road, cover crops...

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