Peggy Kupres (left), manager at the Advocate Center for Breast Care, sits with Dr. Jay Mamon as they compare mammogram films with digital images. (Matthew Grotto/SouthtownStar)
At times uncomfortable, awkward and unnerving, mammograms are part of life for women throughout the Southland every year. Get in line, some hospitals say. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, for example, women are waiting eight months. Here in the Southland, however, women who can shop around may find little or no wait.
Before Jen DeJarld and Nancy Pedersen. Even before there was Anne Malone, there was Donna Smith, the First Lady of Mother McAuley volleyball. Or the First Mom, anyway.
Help the SouthtownStar fill some basekts. Local food pantries are feeling the economic pinch, and so are Project Share planners, including the 10 Southland social service agencies that distribute holiday food to the needy. Last year reader contributions fed nearly 5,000 families.
The Cubs have re-signed free-agent pitcher Ryan Dempster to a four-year contract, the team announced today. Sources say the deal is worth $52 million. Dempster, a 17-game winner and Game 1 playoff starter last season, has been the Cubs’ top offseason priority. Indications are that general manager Jim Hendry might still seek another starting pitcher — possibly free agent Randy Johnson — despite additional pursuits of left-handed hitting.
It's funny how particular moments in time just stick in your mind. Mother McAuley senior Desiree Aramburu remembers like it was yesterday when she fell in love with the idea of being a volleyball setter.
When it comes to the Bulls' so-called "circus trip," Derrick Rose's teammates apparently adhere to the thinking that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
The holiday season is a time of tradition. Unfortunately, one of those traditions is usually gaining holiday weight. Instead of smart, healthy eating, we gorge on high-calorie party foods, leftovers and too many cocktails.
The ailing economy is prompting the owner of Christ Medical Center to delay a major expansion of the Oak Lawn hospital. Advocate Health Care is shelving major capital outlays because of turmoil in the credit markets and investment losses, a spokeswoman for the Oak Brook health care system said Monday.
Fats Domino's first and last show since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans is the basis of a new documentary, "Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans," that will air on public broadcasting stations.