
Articles
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3 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Janice Neumann
The Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn has long been a resource for area parents looking for fun and educational experiences for their kids. Now they’re taking that mission online and expanding it, teaming with other area organizations to host the Early Childhood Resource Hub.
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4 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Janice Neumann
The trying times Josette Songco and her two sons went through years ago taught them the importance of bringing more attention to mental health. The Songco family came out to volunteer Saturday at the Be Kind to Your Mind Mental Health/Wellness Fair and Walk to let other people know there is help out there for depression and other forms of mental illness. The event at Centennial Park in Orland Park was held the last day of Mental Health Awareness Month.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Janice Neumann
Playing computer games wasn’t enough for Carlos Castillo. He wanted to be the one creating them — so that’s just what he did, and that was when he was in middle school. Around that time, his mother was struck with cancer, making him even more determined to excel at computer design, so he could make her proud of him.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Janice Neumann
Energy drinks became a thing for Maha Jaghama and her friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, when they dove in looking for a buzz to distract them from dreary days and isolation. A couple of years afterward, they decided to find out how those kinds of beverages were affecting them and their peers through an interactive project at Oak Lawn Community High School.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Janice Neumann
Two young photographers from vastly different backgrounds had a chance to share the spotlight at Prairie State College as the spring semester wrapped up. Jamel Conner, of Chicago Heights, who won the school’s Photographer of the Year award for his commercial art, and Huynh Vinh Duc Le, who has won various awards and scholarships for his serene portraits and other images, both share a love of the camera and what it can portray.
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