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Constable: Artist relearns how to paint, with the opposite hand, after stroke
By Burt Constable
Jul 15, 2018 7:18 AM - An artist in her younger days, Georgia Pirron thought that part of her was lost after a debilitating stroke. But she picked up her paintbrush again, and now the 87-year-old Rolling Meadows woman hopes her paintings will inspire others to be creative.
Cantigny Park to unveil stunning new gardens with reopening celebration
By Katlyn Smith
Jul 12, 2018 3:45 PM - Cantigny Park is the kind of place that's been around so long that any change is certain to draw attention. So when the park at 1S151 Winfield Road in Wheaton offered an early reveal of its new display gardens to members before Saturday's official reopening, about 500 signed up.
Why chefs from Chicago and New York opened a pizza academy in Lisle
By Marissa Plescia
Jul 11, 2018 2:39 PM - It might not make sense that a Chicago guy and a New York guy would make a pizza academy together, yet Leo Spizzirri, a Chicago native, and Anthony Iannone from Queens, New York, are opening North American Pizza and Culinary Academy in Lisle.
Beloved Prospect Heights P.E. teacher gets 'marathon' send-off
By Eileen O. Daday
Jul 11, 2018 6:00 AM - It takes a lot to surprise Cathy Weadley of Arlington Heights. After teaching physical education to students for 37 years in Prospect Heights Elementary District 23, she's seen it all. But last month, students at Anne Sullivan School in Prospect Heights surprised her with a "marathon" retirement party that drew staff, parents and even members of the Prospect Heights Police and its K-9 unit.
Constable: What made Schaumburg woman catatonic? A rare disease misdiagnosed as mental illness
By Burt Constable
Jul 8, 2018 10:46 AM - An active, 30-year-old emergency room nurse, April Braker felt sick and started behaving oddly. People thought the Schaumburg woman might be having a mental breakdown. But it was a rare autoimmune disease, and now she is unresponsive and doctors are working on her case.
Suburban artists paint lighthouses for Chicago's Mag Mile display
By Katlyn Smith
Jul 13, 2018 1:38 PM - There's no dangerous coastline near the lighthouse outside Chicago's Hyatt Regency hotel, a deep blue tower without a working lantern. But the structure, a tactile piece with Braille stamped on the side, serves as a navigational aid nonetheless,
How a tiny bird signals big improvement for a Palatine forest preserve
By Bob Susnjara
Jul 2, 2018 5:30 AM - Although the Henslow's sparrow is small in size, conservationists say its return to Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine after a 15-year absence is a big sign that longtime restoration work is paying off.
Safety experts: Leave fireworks to pros (even sparklers)
By Isabella Murray
Jun 29, 2018 8:49 AM - Instead of setting off fireworks in the backyard to celebrate the Fourth of July, leave it to the professionals and attend a community displays. The children, veterans and even pets in your life will be grateful, public safety and health experts say.
Constable: Teaching 'Never Forget' to kids who don't yet know Holocaust

Jun 28, 2018 6:32 AM - It's difficult to "Never Forget" the Holocaust, if you never learned about it. Two local teachers are part of a prestigious group learning how to teach the Holocaust.
Constable: Northwestern next for Plainfield author with cystic fibrosis

Jun 20, 2018 4:19 PM - In spite of hospitalizations and the daily grind of treating her cystic fibrosis, 18-year-old Ravina Thakkar of Plainfield is a scholar who still gets royalties from her first novel and just won a scholarship that she can use when she starts at Northwestern University this fall.

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