When suicides reached a historic high for the country in 2022, the starkest statistics were for men past their 75th birthdays, who were dying by suicide at more than twice the rate of men younger than 25.
A 33-year-old woman was in critical condition Friday night following a shooting that wounded two others in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 10:20 p.m., the victim was in a backyard with other people in the 500 block of North Laramie Avenue when shots were fired, striking her to the abdomen. She was taken to Stroger Hospital where she was listed in critical condition, police said. A 42-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head and also was taken to the same hospital and listed in good condition. A third victim, a 49-year-old woman, suffered a wound to […]
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The Minnesota Twins unveiled a Prince-inspired home run celebration, complete with a purple vest and an inflatable purple guitar to pay tribute to the late Minnesota musician.
As one of the relatively few large retailers that made books an attractive impulse purchase, Costco has played a vital niche in the overall bookselling ecosystem.
The developer and is feuding with an alderman over how to employ union labor.
In a wooded clearing in Lake Forest, a team of researchers crouched close to the grass. They watched as hundreds of ants crawled over seeds, sipped sugar water and indulged in a seasonal treat: cicadas. Ants’ foraging activities may seem trivial. But to these scientists, they’re a gateway to unraveling the little-known impact on forest food webs when billions of cicadas emerge from the ground in Illinois. “We’re trying to look at the interconnectedness of all of this,” said researcher Sean B. Menke, an ant expert and biology professor at Lake Forest College. It’s one of the many unknowns surrounding […]
When your camping trip comes to an end and you have some firewood left over, you may be tempted to bring it home to use in the fireplace or a backyard fire pit. “Please don’t,” said Spencer Campbell, manager of the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “Leave the firewood where you got it, so that you don’t give destructive tree pests a ride into your neighborhood.” Firewood carried from one location to another is a major way that new insects and diseases are spread. Insect eggs and larvae or disease-causing fungus spores and bacteria can lurk in […]
Here are the best quotes of the week, as chosen by the Tribune Opinion team.
We still love Metra, and we’ll ride again, but I’m starting to understand why others despise it so.