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Free days at Chicago museums and attractions: When and where to go

For year-round free admission, consider becoming a member of your favorite museum, zoo or outdoor garden attraction.

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For Chicago's new migrants, informal support groups help ease the pain and trauma.

Thousands of new migrants arriving in Chicago fled difficult situations or endured dangerous journeys. Informal support groups can provide some mental health care to ease their trauma and distress.

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José Cancela Named Telemundo Station Group President

WKAQ Puerto Rico general manager succeeds Manuel Martinez atop the group

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Migrants’ mental health in Chicago a looming crisis

Support groups are trying to address obstacles to care that include language barriers and a persistent shortage of mental health workers.

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Prison bus trips offer ‘lifeline’ for kids and incarcerated moms

The Reunification Ride program to Logan Correctional Center in downstate Lincoln reconnects families separated by incarceration.

Chicago Sun-Times

Columbia College adjunct faculty strike leaves students in limbo

To keep classes going, the college has replaced many of the teachers who walked off the job on Oct. 30 — a walkout prompted by the college cutting hundreds of classes to help fill a $20 million budget gap.

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These conservation-minded Illinois farmers are in a race against climate change to save their soil

“It’s about leaving something for tomorrow,” says Jake Lieb, 41, who is among a small but growing percentage of central Illinois farmers experimenting with soil conservation.

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Chicago students work to improve their schools, and find their voice along the way

As part of a shift in civics education, CPS is moving beyond facts and dates and toward helping students experience what it is like to create change.

Chicago Sun-Times

For many Chicagoans, sewing is a new, empowering pastime

“There is a lot of attention to detail. Today, sewing is more of a kind of mindfulness,” said Cherice Taylor of Making It Sew Fun.

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Jewelry designer Hayet Rida gambles on a Bucktown boutique that defies some rules of retail

In one year, she went from e-commerce designer to store owner to a featured name at New York Fashion Week.

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A day with Chicago migrants and the people trying to help them

As of last week, more than 770 people were staying in police stations in Chicago and three dozen were at O’Hare Airport, waiting for a spot in shelters already housing more than 5,260 people.

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JC Brooks Band kicks off NASCAR Chicago concert series on day 1 of street racing extravaganza

In addition to the street races, the event has a short lineup of music performances planned for both days, kicking off Saturday with the only local Chicago act of the weekend, the dynamic indie-soul troupe The JC Brooks Band.

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Clouds looming: Cook County is bracing for a financial storm to hit efforts to provide health care to migrants

About nine months into operating the clinic for asylum seekers, Cook County Health is facing at least a $40 million drop in revenue this year. A number of financial woes are colliding.

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The Edgar haircut is one more thing kids, parents disagree on

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Rising rents pushed these first-time Latino homebuyers to take the plunge

Despite high mortgage rates and a dearth of affordable starter houses, these families saw the upside of making the investment now.

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Weed’s impact on teenagers? UIC neuroscientist uses rats to study marijuana’s effects on adolescent brains

Kuei Tseng is a key figure in the emerging field of biological psychiatry. His findings and those of others might give teens and parents pause about marijuana’s effects on developing brains.

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Illinois lifeline program for suicidal kids struggles amid a youth mental health crisis, staffing shortages

Despite quick assessments, the state is failing to ensure that thousands of children get any follow-up help, let alone the type of intensive behavioral health support many need.

Chicago Sun-Times

Facing pressure to ban books, suburban libraries ‘becoming a battlefield for the First Amendment’

“Most people still think of libraries as a place with books, you can hang out, it’s quiet,” Lincolnwood’s library director says. “That’s not what libraries are anymore.”

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Are Illinois schools teaching reading all wrong?

A mounting body of research shows specific ways students should be taught to read. But many popular lessons aren’t aligned with that science.

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Hear the Leo High School choir ‘bring it’ during its busy holiday season

“You can expect a lot of joy” one of the singers says of the in-demand group’s performances around Chicago.

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Relatively low COVID-19 rates this fall mean a cautious ‘normal’ for Chicago schools

An uptick in flu and respiratory illness among kids, and a potential spike in COVID this winter, worries doctors, students and school leaders.

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Illinois’ weed workers pushing to unionize, seeking higher pay, better safety

Three years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation legalizing recreational marijuana, Illinois cannabis workers have had 30 unionization elections, winning 88% of them.

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At Manny’s, corned beef on rye’s price is up, but, like many restaurants, deli’s still struggling amid high inflation

Higher costs are pummeling restaurants. Many have cut hours and portions and raised prices. Lou Malnati’s Pizza raised prices 8% across the board — more in a year “than ever in our history.”

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Record review: Bailey proud to be lawmaker who tells truth about Illinois’ decline — not one who makes lots of laws

Few of his initiatives wind up in state law books, but they have all helped Bailey quickly make a name for himself as a firebrand devoted to conservative ideology. That includes pride in how few of his bills pass. “We do not need more government — more government like J.B.…

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Cannabis courses being offered by more Illinois colleges as sales of legal marijuana and hemp products grow

The University of Illinois and 11 community colleges statewide — more than ever — are offering courses to prepare students for jobs in the cannabis industry.

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