When Mason Meskimen was just 4, the Lincoln-Way East High School student was hospitalized and needed a blood transfusion. Keeping a young child calm and still during the hours-long procedure seemed nearly impossible, his mother, Heather Meskimen, recalled. Thankfully, she said the Child Life department at Advocate Children’s Hospital — which was called Hope Children’s […]
Juvenile justice advocates are pushing a bill that would largely ban the detention of kids 12 and under.
Momin Ahmed’s website instructs youths on how to navigate Model UN, a simulation of the real United Nations in schools around the globe.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 19, according to the Tribune’s archives.
High school and local college results and highlights from the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County.
A South Shore woman was ordered held in detention Friday on charges that she fatally stabbed a mute cancer patient inside his apartment, struck him with a plank of wood and tried setting fire to his apartment last fall. Before a judge at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, prosecutors said that surveillance cameras captured Catherine […]
Thanks to social media posts by the Cook County sheriff’s office, there is renewed interest in Kianna Galvin, missing since 2016.
VNA Health Care’s newest clinic in Aurora, located at the Bloomhaven campus, offers a wide variety of medical services designed to be accessible.
A delicious assortment of food awaits everyone who attends the Center for Enriched Living’s annual Chefs’ Night, May 5 at the Lincolnshire Marriott Resort.
Following a two-hour service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, participants marched through the streets of East Chicago.