‘All this is healing me’: Program brings together new moms and women farmers

This is more than a trip to a flower farm for family photos in the golden, late afternoon sun. It is an opportunity for lower-income pregnant women and mothers of young children to meet with women farmers, learn from and form friendships with women who are going through the same stage in life, and bring home a tote full of seasonal produce, other regionally sourced foodstuff and get recipes and resources for turning those totes into healthy, nutritious meals.

Gloomy weather from Helene moves over Chicago Friday; rain expected tonight

Helene, the powerful storm that crashed into Florida late Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane, will deliver a gloomy weekend of weather to Chicagoland. Chicago got its first taste of Helene last night when overcast skies moved in, said Kevin Doom, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Chicago office. Wind gusts resulting from Helene, which weakened to a tropical storm as it crawled inland over George, picked up in Chicagoland early Friday, Doom said. “I don’t know if you’ve been outside recently, but it’s pretty windy out there,” Doom said Friday around 9 a.m. The Windy City will become […]