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  • Shortly after Monday morning's frost melts away, Fae Littrell of Inverness picks out geraniums at Goebbert's Farm & Garden Center in South Barrington to plant now that temperatures are expected to shoot into the 80s.

    With these temperature swings, only strong flowers survive May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Shutting off the heat and switching on the air-conditioning? Plants at Morton Arboretum in Lisle tried to fight off a freeze early Monday morning but will bask in 80-degree temperatures today. "All those hanging baskets people get for Mother's Day, if they were under an eave, they are probably OK. But if they got frosted, you're going to see it," says Kris Bachtell of the Morton Arboretum.

     
  • The smiles sported by Sofia Espinoza and her son, John Carlos Guzman, this Mother's Day are well-earned. The Addison mom and her son both were at risk of dying because of a giant tumor growing from the baby's neck. An innovative surgery saved them both.

    It took a team to save this baby and his mom May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    As a pregnant teenager, Sofia Espinoza lugged her backpack and extra weight up and down the stairs at Addison Trail High School. She took advantage of pregnancy advice from school counselors, graduated early and married her boyfriend, Juan Carlos Guzman. Even with the 12 hours of labor, becoming a mom was almost a breeze.“I wanted a girl, so I even accomplished that. It was great,” Espinoza says of that pregnancy resulting in the birth of their daughter, Emily Jaylin Guzman, now 2 years old. “It was so easy.” That experience didn't prepare her for the birth of her son.

     
  • Wagging his tail and panting on a bright, sunny day at the Winetree Apartments complex in Wheeling, the pit bull Gizmo pulls on a leash held by Carlos Villagomez. Rafael Orozco was walking Gizmo on May 1 when he was killed by a stray bullet. Now, Villagomez, Orozco's relative, walks the dog.

    Wheeling neighborhood grieves for slain bystander May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
    The sky is just as blue as it was on the last day of Rafael Orozco's life. The grass might be an even brighter green. And Gizmo, Orozco's muscular pit bull the color of milk chocolate, still rounds the corner of this Wheeling apartment building with his tail wagging and his tongue panting. But everything is different. A makeshift memorial marks the spot where Orozco was killed by a stray bullet May 1.

     
  • Plucked out of a crowd while shopping, Inverness native Renee Trikolas, left, ended up on VH1's “House of Consignment,” where she shared some items from her closet with fashionista Corri McFadden.

    Reality TV date show doesn't alter single mom's priorities May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
    Suburban mom Renee Trikolas used to envision herself celebrating Mother's Day as part of a perfect family. Now, she is a single mom who reinvented herself, runs her own jewelry business and appears in a dating segment airing Thursday on Steve Harvey's TV talk show.

     
  • With a little help from his new left arm, Kent Carson can slip on both of his prosthetic legs quickly during this therapy session at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Carson is walking on his own just eight months after a nearly fatal bout of Legionnaires’ disease led to the amputations of his left arm and both legs.

    Triple amputee wants Boston victims to know it gets better May 5, 2013 12:00 AM
    It wasn't a bomb blast, but a nearly fatal bout of Legionnaires' disease that led to the amputations of Kent Carson's left arm and both legs last year. Now the Round Lake Beach man is walking, working on driving again and would love to visit the Boston bombing victims to give them encouragement.

     
  • This drawing by South Barrington 7th-grader Meg Mehta incorporates some of her favorite things into the Google home-page logo. One of 50 state winners, the 13-year-old needs online votes to become a national finalist in the Doodle 4 Google contest.

    Barrington doodler could see her art on Google homepage May 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    Most Americans are familiar with those imaginative doodles that grace the Google homepage each day. But in a suprise schoolwide assembly Wednesday, a girl at Barrington Middle School at Station Campus learned her artwork is a finalist in a nationwide contest to Doodle 4 Google.

     

  • Deadlier than murders and car crashes, suicide is often a secretApr 30, 2013 12:00 AM
    Americans worry about getting murdered. Daily crime stories put the fear of an attack in our heads. Yet, you or a loved one are far more likely to die of the violence we often don't talk about: suicide.

     
  • Reviewing points about the value of making good cuts in the game of Ultimate, head coach John Hock of Naperville (wearing hat in center) addresses players on the Windy City Wildfire, Chicago's newest professional sports franchise.

    Wildfire franchise out to make Ultimate a pro sport staple Apr 28, 2013 12:00 AM
    A free-spirited game that started with a Frisbee as a laid-back alternative to most organized sports, Ultimate has gone big time. The Windy City Wildfire, our new local team in the professional American Ultimate Disc League, boasts a world-class roster that includes several suburban players.

     

  • Reporter’s tool to find worst job? Mirror, says survey Apr 25, 2013 12:00 AM
    Experts say we newspaper reporters have the worst job in America. Actuaries, whose society is based in Schaumburg, have the best, once again. But there is more to a job than pay, stress, hours and a bright future. People in last place often are more fascinating than winners.

     
  • Stepping outside his Itasca home during one of the warmest and driest moments of last week, legendary TV meteorologist Harry Volkman says he appreciates all kinds of weather.

    Harry Volkman weathers wild Chicago climateApr 21, 2013 12:00 AM
    Imagine a time when broadcasting tornado warnings was forbidden. Legendary TV meteorologist Harry Volkman of Itasca, who turned 87 this week, recalls the time he violated FCC rules by becoming the first weathercaster to issue a tornado warning on TV.

     
  • Celebrating his 14th birthday at Wrigley Field, Will Constable worries that a giant video screen proposed above the left-field bleachers will change the way Cubs fans while away games at the Friendly Confines.

    Wrigley's greatest asset is its lack of this 'must-have' perk Apr 18, 2013 12:00 AM
    Sitting at the first Cubs game since the deal to overhaul Wrigley Field was announced, my teenage son and I realize what we'll miss most when they update our beloved ballpark. The NFL is great on giant video screens. NBA games are perfect for people who need to be entertained constantly. But baseball is a pastime. It has a leisurely pace that encourages human interaction.

     
  • An unidentified Boston Marathon runner leaves the course near Copley Square after the explosions in Boston on Monday.

    For suburban runners, Boston Marathon won't be the same Apr 16, 2013 12:00 AM
    Since 1897, the finish line at the fabled Boston Marathon has marked the joyous pinnacle of accomplishment for generations of runners who strive simply to make it there. Now, it will be forever tainted with the blood of innocents and the memory of another dark day in a modern world savaged by terror. "I've done the marathon twice and you want to celebrate, but the luster has been removed," Mark Przybyla, vice president of the Fast Track Racing Team based in Schaumburg.

     
  • Father and son, Phil, right, and Brian Johnson have fun while working at PJ’s Trick Shop in Arlington Heights.

    Trick to keeping magic store open for 46 years may be funApr 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    There's a trick to staying in business for 46 years selling exploding cigars, hand buzzers and magic routines. Learning a new trick or two through the decades is how PJ's Trick Shop in Arlington Heights has managed not to disappear.

     
  • The BlueStars are all fired up after learning about a $1,000 donation from the Knights of Columbus that will go toward new uniforms.

    BlueStars defeat all those things wrong with youth sports Apr 11, 2013 12:00 AM
    This time of year, young kids, teens and their parents often get beaten down by the pressure-packed, occasionally cruel world of organized spring sports. Even those youngsters fortunate enough to survive the tryouts and make a team can still gripe about coaches, teammates, positions, playing time.

     
  • Tired of unpredictable weather, narrow walkways and ancient bathrooms at Wrigley Field, Cubs fans Rick Romanelli, right, and Ron Sershon want the Cubs to move to the suburbs.

    Fans want to drag Cubs, Wrigley into 21st century Apr 9, 2013 12:00 AM
    The friendly confines of Wrigley Field hosted baseball for the 100th straight year Monday as the Chicago Cubs welcomed fans for the first home game of the 2013 season. Some fans are willing to let Wrigley go. “Move the team to Rosemont,” suggests longtime fan Rick Romanelli of Des Plaines, with a homemade sign calling for the Cubs and the Chicago Bears to accept that suburb’s recent wooing attempt.

     
  • Pointing to a photo of the barrier island community of Stone Harbor in New Jersey, Charley McLenna shows where he lost his Cubs hat. The Lake in the Hills man recently reclaimed his hat, which somehow survived Hurricane Sandy.

    Cubs fan finds hope in lost hat returned from hurricaneApr 8, 2013 12:00 AM
    A favorite Cubs hat, thought to have been lost to Hurricane Sandy during a fall filled with bad news, miraculously reappears. And its Lake in the Hills owner thinks that could be a sign. “It was nothing short of a miracle finding this hat,” the 44-year-old Lake in the Hills man says as he tenderly removes his beloved 1934 replica wool Cubs hat, which recently found its way back to him. “This hat made it through Hurricane Sandy.”

     
  • Libertyville High School Orchestra director Jeremy Marino leads musicians as they rehearse for their trip to Cuba. The school’s musicians have performed around the world through the years, but this is the first trip to the small Caribbean nation, which has been at political odds with the United States for decades.

    A world of difference in spring breaks for kids who travel Apr 4, 2013 12:00 AM
    Once the domain of wealthy adults, international travel is becoming more and more common for high school teens. Hundreds of suburban high-schoolers each year spend time abroad on school-sponsored trips.

     
  • Frank Gambro of Elgin will be going to his 60th consecutive White Sox home opener Monday. Opening Day has become a tradition for his children and grandchildren as well.

    For Elgin man, Monday marks his 60th Sox opener Mar 31, 2013 12:00 AM
    A lifelong White Sox fan, Frank Gambro attended the 1953 home opener at Comiskey Park and saw his hero, Jungle Jim Rivera, score the only run in a 1-0 victory. Gambro hasn't missed an Opening Day on the South Side in the 60 years since. “It's like another holiday,” Adam Gambro says of the Opening Day ritual started 60 years ago by his grandfather and family patriarch, Frank Gambro.

     
  • Considered a delicacy by some and a little gross by others, this pan full of smelt will be fried to perfection, promises Andy Johnson, who helps run the family's legendary Don's Dock seafood restaurant and market in Des Plaines.

    Can't catch whiff of suburban smelt fishermen these days Mar 26, 2013 12:00 AM
    It's smelt season. The little fish still shows up on the menu of Don's Dock in Des Plaines, but the days of suburban fishermen heading to the shore of Lake Michigan to catch their fill is as good as gone. “Smelt are not in numbers like they used to be,” says Steve Robilard, a fishery biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources office in Des Plaines. “Since 1993, numbers have declined, and now there are very few smelt out there.”

     
  • During the NCAA basketball tourney, Drs. James H. Griffin, left, Jennifer A. Cerutti and Timothy J. Ross are offering a free pizza with every vasectomy at their Urology Ltd. clinic in Elgin.

    You want pizza, TV and basketball with that vasectomy? Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM
    Need a heart-bypass, a new kidney or a 3-inch framing nail removed from your forehead, and you don't have the luxury of scheduling a surgery to meet your TV-watching desires. But an Elgin urology clinic offers men a surgery combo that includes a vasectomy, a pizza and time to watch the NCAA tourney. “We're starting to see an uptick,” says Dr. Timothy J. Roth, one of the vasectomy-performing urologists at the clinic.

     
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