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Families stand on stage holding signs during a rally for Rayito de Sol teacher Ms. Diana
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After the Raids
December 1, 2025
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Original illustration of figures interspersed among produce by Fiorella Quaranta
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Nourishing the Body, Mind, and Beyond
October 2, 2025
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Nutrition at a Glance
October 2, 2025
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Illustration of three multicultural woman with plates of their native foods.
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Healing Foods
October 2, 2025
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Supplements and superfoods
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Supplements, Superfoods, and Snake Oil
October 2, 2025
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Food desert illustration represented by a fist holding a fork coming out of the sand. Illustration by Fiorella Quaranta
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Food Insecurity in Chicago
October 2, 2025
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Illustration of a woman injecting a GLP-1 drug for weight loss
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Weight Loss Drug Revolution
October 2, 2025
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Illustration of foods that represent the Mediterranean Diet
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What’s in a Diet?
October 1, 2025
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An outside view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with bullet holes visible in the windows, even at a distance
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CDC in Crisis
September 8, 2025
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A group of protesters gather outside of Weiss Memorial Hospital on Aug. 8, 2025
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"How Did This Happen?"
August 11, 2025
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Researchers in a laboratory study samples through a microscope.
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Life After the Cut
July 7, 2025
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A psychologist sits on a couch with a young boy, playing with a toy truck
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Privacy vs. Public Health
June 16, 2025
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Migrant children. The mental health journey they face in the United States.
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After the Darién
April 11, 2025
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The word Healthcare is seen listed on a stock ticker board. This represents that healthcare in the United States is a For Profit business and is traded on Wall Street
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The Price We Pay
April 10, 2025
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Gloria Austin. Photo by Jim Vondruska
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Undoing Debt
April 10, 2025
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In the Time of Transplant
April 10, 2025
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Illustration of the U.S. capitol building with a vaccine being injected into it. Symbolic of government vaccine policy.
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Who’s In Charge?
April 10, 2025
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Empty Obstetrics classroom representing the affects of abortion bans on medical training
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Crossing Lines
April 10, 2025
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Red hearts decorate a national Covid-19 memorial wall for the five-year anniversary on March 11, 2025, in London, England.
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Health Data Hunt
March 24, 2025
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A research wearing goggles uses a pipette to insert a substance into a test tube.
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“There’s Just a Lot of Uncertainty”
February 10, 2025
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At the Wild Mile, along the Chicago River, in Chicago, facing west. A bright orange life preserver is at the center of the image, which shows the river walk on a rainy day. A white, industrial building stands in the background.
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Water at Risk
November 10, 2024
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Outside of the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago
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Surgery Through Art
October 26, 2024
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Dark playground seen through a foreboding chain link fence
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The Public Health Crisis of Gun Violence
October 12, 2024
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Photo by Beking Joassaint for UChicago Crime Lab. Activists against gun violence.
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Change Makers
October 12, 2024
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Participants of the FLIP program in Back of the yards. Violence Intervention. Courtesy of the institute for nonviolence chicago
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Aiming for More
October 12, 2024
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Shadow of a wheelchair representing the ongoing survival of gun violence
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Ongoing Survival
October 12, 2024
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Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain (pictured far right), and Live Free Illinois at a protest against gun violence. LiveFree Illinois is a faith based organization
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The Role of Faith in Gun Violence Prevention
October 12, 2024
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Illustration of a doctor looking at a large digital monitor with brain scans and test results representing information gathered with artificial intelligence
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AI in Healthcare
October 12, 2024
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Emergency responders at a shooting, gun violence response. Photo by Jim Vondruska.
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Emergency Response
October 12, 2024
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A child in a wheelchair, wearing a NASA tshirt, pets a brown miniature horse that is also wearing gym shoes.
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Animal Therapy
September 23, 2024
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Birth control pill in front of a Chicago skyline illustration symbolizing invention in Chicago
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Chicago and The Pill
April 8, 2024
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Daniel Hale Williams, MD
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The First Black-Owned Hospital in the United States
April 8, 2024
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Illustration of confusion and questioning of vaccine.
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The Vaccine Controversy
April 8, 2024
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Illustration of troubled man with an empty buggy bank without money. Sickle cell disease new gene therapy treatment and lack of affordability concept.
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Promise Out of Reach
April 8, 2024
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Illustration of doctor examining a heart. Reference to Chicago's rich history of cardiology pioneers
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As the Heart Beats
April 8, 2024
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Illustration of women in medicine, of a diverse background with stethoscopes around their necks.
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Women Rising
April 8, 2024
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Protesters march for medicare for all. Courtesy of Physicians for a National Health Program
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Do No Harm
April 8, 2024
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MMHT-volunteers-protest
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Crisis Response
January 25, 2024
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Our Top 10 Stories of 2023
January 9, 2024
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Pulmonary critical care doctor, Justin Fiala, MD, stands among brightly colored paintings in his studio
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Painting a Pandemic
October 11, 2023
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Trees
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Oh, Naturale!
September 27, 2023
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Processing mass shooting grief
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Why We Forget Mass Shootings
September 27, 2023
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Marcy Kamen, MD, pictured center, with her family before the 4th of July 2022 parade
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Healing Highland Park
September 27, 2023
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Javiar Erazo, District Manager at Groot
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Recycling is Complicated and Controversial…
September 27, 2023
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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD), where water treatment takes place for Cook County, Illinois
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Rising Concerns
September 27, 2023
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Montage of Chicago Health and Caregiving Staff receiving awards at the 2023 National Federation of Press Women conference in Cleveland, Ohio
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Announcing Our 2023 Award-Winning Stories from Chicago Health and Caregiving
July 6, 2023
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Diagnosis Unknown, Looking through the microscope of Ponni Arunkumar, MD. Photo by Jim Vondruska
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Diagnosis Unknown
March 16, 2023
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Explore the Mysteries of Medicine in These Acclaimed Books
March 16, 2023
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Sources: Kaiser Family Foundation, National Survey of Children’s Healths, Commonwealth Fund, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
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Who Gets Diagnosed in Illinois?
March 16, 2023
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Diseases in children can be tough to diagnose for many reasons
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Too Soon
March 16, 2023
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