After months of facing plummeting sales since the Chicago-area’s contentious penny-per-ounce tax on soda and sweetened beverages was enacted, small business owners were finally able…
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South Loop residents have begun ditching their traditional gyms and getting hooked on the atmosphere of slamming weights to the ground, blaring music and a…
What’s the secret to becoming powHERful? For an increasing number of women on the North Side, the answer is pizza and beer. Pizzeria Serio, known…
Brittani Guerra, 21, is a softball player who exercises at least five days a week. She usually works out with her team, but when she’s…
Rodney Mayhan took a drag on a cigarette on Monday afternoon, then threw his butt across the sidewalk in front of a plaza near several…
Substance abuse among young people has become one of the main reasons for incarceration, advocates said Thursday. “Cook County has committed over 70 percent of…
George Laman lost his daughter because no one used the device that could have saved her life. Now he’s working with some state lawmakers to…
Concerned about children being exposed to secondhand smoke, some state lawmakers want to ban smoking in any private vehicle with a minor in it. The…