Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago. ...more

November 21, 2009

The Mothers of Preschoolers at Victorious Life Church want this year's Baby Share event to be a big blowout in honor of its 10th anniversary. To make the dream reality, members are turning to the community for help. ...more

February 18, 2009

Strolling down the aisles, customer Paulette Balfour surveyed the selection of tomatoes. ...more

January 28, 2009

A farm in the city offers lower-cost alternatives to retail organic food stores, but even here they're feeling the effects of the economic downturn. ...more

January 16, 2009

Brittany May collected more than 1,000 items for troops stationed overseas. For the Hudson Middle School eighth-grader, it was a family affair. Her uncle, Joey Jarrel, is shipping out with the National Guard to Afghanistan after Christmas. ...more

December 21, 2008

Ambar Rodriguez-Avila took an 8-year-old girl dressed in a Batman costume on a ghastly grocery trip Thursday, authorities said. ...more

October 3, 2008

She worked full-time before she had her daughter. Like many work-minded mothers, Jennifer Vitale wished for a job that could provide for her and her child, but she didn't want to be away from her for nine hours of the day. ...more

August 11, 2008

Clothes, shoes, toys, strollers and car seats can be exchanged and purchased at multi-faceted Spring Hill store. ...more

August 11, 2008

My favorite letter this week comes from Valerie Sumner Morales. The letter was not about her dad, but I want to mention her father, the late Col. Robert Sumner, on the heels of Memorial Day. A lot of you might remember him as an instructor at the University of Tampa. ...more

June 2, 2008

These days little children are brought along to places that would have been considered inappropriate a generation ago: four-star restaurants, cocktail parties, rock concerts. But for all the sniping from adults who resent this territorial invasion, the onslaught shows no sign of letting up. ...more

February 12, 2008