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Until recently, Brenda Myers-Powell had no idea the impact she had on Tilisha Harrison's life more than 20 years ago. In fact, for a year, the two women crossed paths in the hallway at work and never knew they shared a past. Since last March, Myers-...

The thriller “Downers Grove” – which revolves around a high school in Downers Grove, Ill. where one senior mysteriously dies at the end of each year -- was supposed to begin filming in Louisiana last spring. But here we are in November...

You didn’t have to wait until my Monday column to hear Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari went out on a date over the weekend. The once-private Cutler tweeted his plans to his 150,000 followers Friday. “Dinner date night with @KristinCav,&...

With a brother in college and a sister in her junior year of high school, Jim Cullen says it was the scholarship money he received …...

Gala celebrates commitment to helping others; 90 percent of proceeds to go to scholarships ELMHURST, Ill., March 28, 2012 – Elmhurst College’s third annual Evening …...

When the president of All Hallows College in Ireland saw the regal man on the framed canvas, he knew the portrait buried in a Dublin basement should head home to Chicago. The painting of Patrick Feehan, Chicago's first Roman Catholic archbishop,...

The Chicago Tribune released its annual Top Workplaces survey Monday, with a broad cross section of companies -- and dozens of new names -- earning recognition as the best places to work in Chicago.  Abt Electronics and Coyote Logistics repeated as the...

When 49-year-old John Palecki sings the old tune, "Proud Mary", with his Brooklyn-based band, Melodic Soul, he may not quite sound like Ike and Tina Turner--or even John Fogarty from Creedence Clearwater Revival--two other 1960's era bands that turned the...

More than 200 Chicago police officers, former officers and their families packed a makeshift chapel today at the Fraternal Order of Police, offering a unified prayer to heal a popular former police superintendent in the fight of his life. Philip J....

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The family of SeaWorld Orlando trainer killed a year ago when she was pulled underwater by a whale has established a foundation to carry on her passion for life and love of others. The Times of Munster reports that (http:/...