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Oak Brook physician who came from India laments being ignorant of nation's racist past
Jul 5, 2020 6:00 AM - "Recent events have shocked me into the realization that I have been woefully ignorant of the racist past of my country. There are millions like me," a suburban physician writes. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 3: 'We are the lucky ones'
Jun 28, 2020 12:17 AM - In Day 3 of Barrington resident Alix Atwell's COVID-19 Diary, she talks about the challenges her family faces as she, the caregiver, must now rely on others to see her through the disease. She's lucky, she says, to have that. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 2: 'I feel like my knees are going to just give out underneath me.'
Jun 28, 2020 12:17 AM - In Day 2 of Barrington resident Alix Atwell's COVID-19 Diary, she talks about her husband's bout with the virus, her two kids getting infected and the decision to ride it out together. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 1: 'I'm scared, but I can't show it'
Jun 28, 2020 12:16 AM - Alix Atwell, a nurse, mom and aspiring writer living in Barrington, begins her COVID-19 Diary. She describes how her husband was the first member of her household to contract it -- on a simple run to the home improvement store and to fill the tank -- and how the illness has taken over their lives since. -
'My mom was tough. COVID-19 was tougher.'
Jun 7, 2020 8:26 AM - Julie Hanson of Arlington Heights talks about her mother's death from COVID-19 and those last weeks of communicating through a pane of glass. -
Stones of hope: A black mother in Naperville, fearing for her kids, tries not to feel helpless
Jun 3, 2020 8:27 AM - Kimberly White of Naperville shares her perspective on raising a black family in these times and what it feels like to be her. -
Straight from the Source: When a global pandemic interrupts senior year
Jun 1, 2020 11:15 AM - Stevenson High School senior Vrushali Thakkar expected this spring to be full of graduation parties, road trips, prom and perhaps a slight case of "senioritis." Instead, her graduation consisted of sitting on her living room couch, sporting pajamas under her revered cap and gown. -
'He will be my silent warrior': ER doctor describes her bond with COVID-19 patient
Apr 15, 2020 5:59 AM - Dr. Halleh Akbarnia has seen a lot in her nearly 20 years as emergency medicine physician. But nothing has made her feel the way about her job that confronting the coronavirus pandemic has, or the special bond she's formed with one of her first COVID-19 patients. -
Coronavirus: Seasoned traveler says listen to the experts, avoid hot spots and keep traveling
Mar 10, 2020 10:15 AM - Doug Picirillo of Arlington Heights flies more than 100,000 air miles a year. He has some advice about travel in the era of the coronavirus. -
'Everyone was in shock, angry, sad': Suburban native living in New Zealand recounts day terrorist killed 50
Mar 20, 2019 5:38 AM - Scott Fack, a Mount Prospect native now living in Christchurch in New Zealand, details what it was like to be in that city near where a terrorist killed 50 people at the Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre.
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