There's help for thousands of women affected by a dangerous condition during pregnancy, a life-threatening disorder for both mom and baby called preeclampsia.
The job market is starting to improve around the country. The accelerating recovery should prove beneficial to teenagers seeking employment this summer, as they are likely to face less competition from older, more experienced job hunters.
In this "For Your Family," ABC7 covers a very serious and important topic: the warning signs of one of the most under-reported crimes in the country, sexual abuse. The victims are children who suffer in silence.
Baseball season officially starts this week for a lot of Chicago-area Little League and softball league teams, but for parents of young athletes, there are some new concerns. Doctors say they are seeing more "overuse syndrome" in children.
It has stricken professional athletes, college players and teenagers in high school. Oftentimes, the families had no idea their child suffered from a heart condition.
Author of ''Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write -- from Baby to Age 7,'' Richard Gentry, PhD, visited the ABC7 studio.
A 33-year-old Chicago woman created her very first baby-product and now runs a fast-growing company while simultaneously caring for her two young children.
It is called a silent epidemic estimated to affect one in four women. It is not a disease. Yet, the consequences can be deadly. It's domestic violence.
Still have the running nose and watery eyes? Lots of people do. For weeks going into it, experts predicted it was going to be one of the worst allergy seasons. So how bad is it? How much longer will the suffering last?