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Tinesha Worsham, 36, holds her 6-week-old daughter Priya in the neonatal intensive care unit at Prentice Women's Hospital on Dec. 16, 2015. She was presented by nurses with now-traditional tiny boxing gloves.

Tiny boxing gloves offer hope to families of babies in intensive care unit

June 16, 2018 at 9:32 a.m.

Some traditions are handed down purposefully from one generation to the next. Others, like the one centered on a tiny pair of boxing gloves hanging in the neonatal intensive care...

Tracy Montes, a college student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, checks on senior residents Robert Overend, from left, Jean Yale and Judy Gibson, who all live with her in the Pat Crowley House in Edgewater, as they eat the dinner Nov. 23, 2015.

Intergenerational houses bring seniors, 20-somethings together

June 16, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

Like many 19-year-olds, Carla Bieg loves hanging out with her roommates. Together in their Edgewater apartment, lonely nights turn into fun-filled evenings of cooking meals together, curling up on the...

The Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program, which operates out of Bolingbrook as well as Oak Lawn, is one of only a few agencies in Illinois specializing in mental health treatment for children who have suffered trauma or sexual abuse.

Chicago-area Advocate program helps children recover from sexual abuse

June 16, 2018 at 11:20 a.m.

For months, Erin Hagerty tried to get the young boy to open up about his traumatic past. Instead, he spent entire sessions avoiding eye contact, staring at the wall and...

Grandparents’ spoiling prompts tough conversations

June 16, 2018 at 11:23 a.m.

At least once a week, I get a call from my mom or one of my siblings asking if they can pick up my 4-year-old daughter for a lunch date...

Merchandise is sold as a family waits to pay for photographs after visiting Santa Claus at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.

Santa comes to a mall near you — for a price

June 16, 2018 at 12:12 p.m.

Parents hoping to avoid a wait for a visit with Santa Claus at Woodfield Mall can now reserve a spot in line with the jolly fellow — but it will...

The Cookie Store, at 3829 North Harlem Ave. in Chicago, is selling its last Maurice Lenell cookies and has a countdown in a front window, shown Aug. 5, 2015. The store is a few blocks from the shuttered cookie factory in Norridge.

Maurice Lenell chocolate chip cookies to return after public outcry

December 24, 2019 at 3:48 a.m.

Maurice Lenell cookies are back — well, one variety is, anyway. Nearly three months after the Ohio-based company that took over production of Chicago's nostalgic cookies announced it had pulled...

Eighth-grader John Kurzynski works on an algebra problem Oct. 28, 2015, in class at Lincoln Prairie School in Hoffman Estates. The school ranked high in a new statewide measure of math skills exhibited by eighth-graders.

Should kids take algebra before high school? New state data highlight issue

June 16, 2018 at 12:36 p.m.

The way Michelle Truax's eighth-grade algebra students were enthusiastically blurting out answers, it appeared they were grasping the day's lesson. But when six students came up with wrong solutions to...

Baby sleep coaches can help new parents establish healthy rest patterns for their infant.

Baby sleep coaches offer much-needed help to tired parents

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Four years ago, I was one of the many frantic new moms emailing Janeen Hayward, a professional baby sleep consultant, in the middle of the night. Hello. I attended a...

Cubs PA announcer Andrew Belleson, shown Oct. 20, 2015, before Game 3 of the National League Championship Series in his Wrigley Field perch, grew up in Lombard with a mural of the park's press box painted on his bedroom wall. "It still doesn't sink in sometimes that it's my job," he said.

Cubs’ stadium announcer still living dream at Wrigley

August 19, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

Sometimes, on the way to Wrigley Field, Andrew Belleson gets into conversations with fellow Cubs fans. Eventually they ask what he does for a living. Belleson's response — that he's...

A squirrel stands on pumpkins carved into Halloween jack-o'-lanterns Oct. 25, 2004, in Washington. Pumpkins can attract snacking squirrels.

Pumpkins on porches an opportune snack for squirrels

May 22, 2019 at 8:49 p.m.

What's more annoying than squirrels chomping on the festive pumpkins on your front porch? There's this: Squirrels don't even particularly like pumpkins. "It's kind of like when you're sitting down...

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