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A Better Chicago to grant $7M targeting mental health for CPS students...
Bessie Alcantara, executive director of Alternatives, Inc., stands inside the organization’s Uptown location on Monday. Alternatives is among seven organizations that will receive more than $7 million...
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Community rallies behind Timuel Black, honoring a life of service
Timuel Black, at age 98, chatting about the Chicago Freedom Movement that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Chicago, where an open housing march in Marquette Park drew attacks by angry whites....
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Timuel Black, historian, civil rights activist, dies at 102
Timuel Black in 2018, when he was interviewed on his 100th birthday. | Rich Hein / Sun-Times fileMr. Black, a political and civil rights activist, educator, historian, prolific author and revered elder...
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Marion Flynn, corporate banker with passion for community service, dies at...
Marion Flynn, a corporate banker for 33 years, was internationally known as a staunch advocate for women in the priesthood in the Catholic Church. | ProvidedMarion Flynn spent more than 22 years in...
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Connie Haygood, social worker who loved family — her own and those she aided...
Connie Haygood loved family. And not just her own, but the general concept of family. It’s what made her such a successful social worker, devoted to repairing and reunifying families — or protecting...
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Seeking respite from reality, theater’s glorious return to Chicago offered...
Cassie Cutler and Oliver Parkinson defy gravity in Teatro Zinzanni, a 2 1/2-hour feast for the senses running through Nov. 28 at the downtown Cambria Hotel. The show, the first to open to live...
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CPS teen among Illinois youth delegation heading to 26th U.N. Climate Summit...
The Climate Clock is projected onto Tolbooth Steeple in Glasgow, Scotland on Friday ahead of the start of COP26, a U.N. climate conference. | Associated Press“We’re already at a point where if we don’t...
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Former U.S. soldier POW Jessica Lynch shares her story with women veterans here
Eighteen years after she was captured by Iraqi forces on March 23, 2003 — at age 19, becoming the first American prisoner of war and first woman to be rescued since World War II — former U.S. soldier...
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Mom of Jaslyn Adams demands McDonald’s CEO apologize: ‘How dare you judge me....
“Do you know what it’s like to lose a child, especially to gun violence?” asked Lanesha Walker, the mother of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams, who was killed in the drive-thru of a Homan Square McDonald’s. |...
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At Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, an animated message about...
Are we too late to save the climate? As the Climate Summit continues in Glasgow, a crisis unfolds in Madagascar, where 1 million are on the brink of the world’s first famine caused solely by climate...
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