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NBC-5 news anchor Rob Stafford to undergo bone marrow transplant for rare blood disease

June 5, 2018 at 6:34 p.m.

NBC-5 news anchor Rob Stafford has been diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and will take a leave of absence from the station for several months as he undergoes a...

School workers in state must know how to handle asthma crises, new law says

June 5, 2018 at 9:36 p.m.

Each time Sheri Hurdle sends her 12-year-old daughter, Imanni, off to school, the mother worries that her child's severe asthma will act up in her absence. Even with daily medication,...

Sisters who argue today are still friends for life

June 5, 2018 at 11:47 p.m.

Maddie, my 2-year-old daughter, recently had a terrible cold, which kept her coughing most of the day and night. In an act of empathy that touched my heart, Gracie, my...

Syrian refugee family arrives in Chicago to cheers as court weighs controversial ban

August 21, 2019 at 10:04 p.m.

A Syrian refugee family was greeted with applause and joyful tears Tuesday evening at O'Hare International Airport as a federal appeals court heard arguments on whether to restore President Donald...

Meryem Yildirim, 7, left, sitting on the shoulders of her father, Fatih, of Schaumburg, and Adin Bendat-Appell, 9, sitting on the shoulders of his father, Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell, of Deerfield, protest President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee order at O'Hare International Airport on Jan 30, 2017.

The story behind the viral photo of Muslim and Jewish children protesting at O’Hare

August 18, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

A Muslim and a Jewish father had never met before bringing their children to O'Hare International Airport Monday to join in a protest of President Donald Trump's immigration ban. But...

Protesters gather at O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 28, 2017, after at least 18 people were detained, including green card holders. They were heldbecause of an executive order by President Donald Trump temporarily blocking refugees coming to the U.S. and placing a temporary moratorium on immigrants from seven barred countries.

Universities advise some students, scholars not to travel abroad

August 10, 2019 at 2:00 a.m.

President Donald Trump's immigration ban had repercussions Monday at colleges and universities throughout the Midwest, with officials urging some students and scholars not to leave the country. The University of...

New women’s shelter designed to serve victims with diverse cultural backgrounds

June 6, 2018 at 6:13 a.m.

Surinder Nand still remembers the sadness on the face of the young, battered woman brought by police a decade ago to an old, two-story brick house on Chicago's North Side....

Consuelo Martinez, an immigrant and Chicago resident who is living in the U.S. illegally, worries what would happen if she were to bedeported. Her daughter, Chelsea, 13, playing violin, is a U.S. citizen who has an autism-spectrum disorder.

Mixed-status immigrant families fear Trump’s policies to come

June 6, 2018 at 7:08 a.m.

Each day when Consuelo Martinez drops her two children off at school, she is confronted with a contradiction: Her children are living a better life than she and her husband...

An Aurora police squad car sits in the parking lot of Fox Valley Mall on Dec. 26, 2016, after the mall was evacuated due to a teen fight.

Malls debate teen policies after rash of Christmas weekend fights

May 22, 2019 at 3:19 p.m.

An unusually high number of teen fights at shopping centers across the U.S. over the Christmas weekend — including at suburban Chicago malls — is prompting some mall operators to...

Eileen Wagner, 99, who was raped at age 16 and recently reconnected with the daughter she had given up for adoption more than 80 years ago, sits at her home in Monroe, Wis., on May 13, 2016.

After 80 Christmases apart, reunion is gift for birth mother and daughter

June 8, 2018 at 1:37 p.m.

For more than 80 Christmases, Eileen Wagner wondered about the baby girl she gave up for adoption as a teenager. Was her daughter happy? Did her adoptive family make her...

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