Study: Music Lessons For Kids Pay Off Later In Life
Northwestern University researchers say a new study suggests that parents should give their children music lessons.
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Northwestern University researchers say a new study suggests that parents should give their children music lessons.
Next month, more than 4,000 people will climb 94 floors all the way to the top of the John Hancock Center to raise money for breathing problems, and one man knows what it's like to gasp for air.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is described as alert and responsive after another operation to relieve swelling in his brain, after he suffered a stroke last weekend.
The Chicago Board of Education is considering a new plan to make sure that teachers are ready to help the thousands of kids with asthma in public schools.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is moving ahead with its plans for a new hospital on the site of the old CBS Building, according to a published report.
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his administration's plan to move people out of state institutions for the mentally and physically disabled and into community care settings.
The number of abortions performed in Illinois fell to a 37-year low in 2010.
Students in Chicago's Public Schools are eating healthier – if they're eating what's served at school. But some lunchroom personnel say the children are not.
The Chicago Public Schools plan to begin keeping medication on hand to treat allergic reactions that could prove deadly to students.
The University of Chicago is poised to open a new hospital with a new brand.
Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday that he plans to close a Tinley Park mental hospital and a Jacksonville center for people with developmental disabilities as he ramps up efforts to move people out of state institutions and into group homes or other kinds of community care.
The City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance that will give restaurants with good public health records a break on inspections.
A group of Chicagoans trying to help recovery efforts in Haiti, two years after the devastating earthquake, gathered at Children's Memorial Hospital Thursday to discuss the on-going effort.
So many of us are running around ragged and not getting enough sleep, but imagine feeling like you've had a full night's rest in just 20 minutes.
How young is too young to use a smartphone, video iPod or an iPad?
