Mariah Rush
Staff Reporter
The Lurie Cancer Center Hispanic Breast Cancer Clinic and support groups, including Sisters Working It Out, offer patients of color health care access, community and hope.
Despite the city’s claims of growing mental health resources, families and experts say resources are not available and translated to Black residents, the only demographic seeing increased suicides.
The annual African Festival of the Arts took place Labor Day weekend at Washington Park with vendors from around the world. The festival brings the African diaspora to Chicago with food, music and celebration.
Black Breastfeeding Week — which runs through Thursday — provides education and uplifts families who may face social and health care roadblocks to breastfeeding.
Potentially millions of people across the U.S. showed so-called long-COVID symptoms in 2020 even though they initially tested negative for the virus back then, researchers find.
The co-founder of Classic Cinemas was a lifelong Downers Grove resident. Mr. Johnson spent his life finding historic, pushed aside buildings and turning them into downtown movie theaters and community hubs.
The number of Chicagoans living over a mile away from a supermarket or superstore — a major grocer — has jumped by 63% in the past decade, a WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.
Three top finalists for the 15th annual Revie Sorey Trunk Scholarships read prize-winning essays last week at South Shore Cultural Center, and 125 college-bound students receive loads of school essentials.
The acclaimed Chicago artist has renovated vacant buildings across the South Side through his Rebuild Foundation. The former elementary school, vacant for 20 years, will be transformed into an arts hub in 2024.