For the Shackells, Father’s Day weekend and the first day of the U.S. Olympic trials started perfectly.
Day: June 16, 2024
Lenyn Sosa falls a triple shy of hitting for the cycle in Chicago White Sox’s 9-2 win
Paul DeJong, Andrew Vaughn, Lenyn Sosa and Korey Lee homered for the Chicago White Sox in a 9-2 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday at Chase Field.
DuPage Children’s Museum pilots new East Asian play exhibit
As part of the exhibit, children can prepare, cook and serve pretend food to their families. All items are representations of East Asian ingredients and designed to celebrate the East Asian culture, museum officials said.
Pedaling uphill: Ingenuity, adaptability have made the difference for suburban bike shops since the pandemic
The inventory and service demands that accompanied the pandemic’s sudden surge of interest in cycling sent suburban bike shops pedaling uphill on an already 4-year-long journey that hasn’t yet seen a downhill coast to 2019 market norms.
Clarence Page: Another Father’s Day, another election-year discussion on the state of the Black family
It’s Father’s Day in an election year, which gets Clarence Page reminiscing about Barack Obama’s 2008 speech on Black fathers.
New fathers should be screened for postpartum depression too, study says
An expanding volume of recent research has indicated that fathers, along with their female partners, can develop postpartum depression.
Different receptions for $1 billion investments; data center proposals welcomed in LaPorte but not in Chesterton
LaPorte is getting a $1 billion Microsoft data center. The $1.3 billion data center that had been proposed for Chesterton is now off the table. So why one and not the other?
She may have a full ride to Harvard, but as an undocumented immigrant without a job permit, her future is uncertain
Simone Peña found out she had been accepted to Harvard with a full scholarship after school one day while she was getting ready to go clean houses with her parents, as she did most evenings and weekends.
Tom Montgomery Fate: What it’s like to lose a father to Alzheimer’s
The hard thing with Alzheimer’s is that your dad or mom becomes like a child again, and you must parent them.
Yiddish theater and radicals found a home at Douglas Park Auditorium
In the early 20th Century, the Douglas Park Auditorium provided a forum for everything from Yiddish theater to union rallies in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.