The surgeon's Thirty Million Words project—and new book—is a how-to manual for parents to engage with their children from the earliest months. Read more
A turn-of-the-century data-journalism project by the paper created a movement to clean up the holiday and the scourge of "patriotic tetanus" that always followed it. Read more
The effects of lead poisoning show up on rap sheets and grade books, and Chicago has long had some of the worst problems with it in America. The costs of remediation are substantial, but the savings could be much greater. Read more
The deadly, highly contagious virus infected thousands of people in Illinois, hitting poor neighborhoods in Chicago the hardest, leading to new initiatives and laws that technically eliminated the disease. Read more
