Pritzker Traubert Foundation awards $5M Chicago Talent Challenge to City Colleges and Cook County Health
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health...
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Tiny, raucous monk parakeets from South America thrive in Chicago. But why?
Likely escapees of the exotic pet trade, the birds first put down roots in some...
NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for more repairs
The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket had spent a month at the pad ready for...
NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs before astronauts strap in
Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar...
NASA moon rocket hit by new problem expected to bump astronauts’ lunar trip into April
NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts’ first lunar...
Four new astronauts arrive at the International Space Station to replace NASA’s evacuated crew
The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts...
Human composting offers an environmentally friendly end. Some are pushing to legalize it in Illinois.
This green approach avoids the release of smoke from cremation and the leaking of fluids...
Trump administration dismantles US ability to fight climate change; environmentalists vow to appeal
In the Midwest, climate change is fueling extreme heat, toxic algal blooms in the Great...
A conversation with the UIC professor who heads up sports sciences for US Figure Skating
Lindsay Slater Hannigan, who is director of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Human and...
‘Take the vaccine, please,’ a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise
A leading U.S. health official on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles...