CHAMPAIGN -- With very limited use of her arms and legs, Kelsey Rozema has needed her parents' help with most daily tasks -- getting out of bed, showering, putting on a coat and even opening a water bottle. In 18 years, they've been apart for only six nights

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U. of I. opens state-of-the-art dorm for students with disabilities

Chicago 's Bud Billiken Parade Saturday was ostensibly again about education, the 81st edition of a procession through Bronzeville aimed at getting kids ready for school.

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Valerie Jarrett grand marshal at Bud Billiken parade | Photos

Is it OK to read Stieg Larsson's books out of sequence? I am not an avid reader. I always joke that "Reading Is for Losers" is my national campaign for illiteracy.

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Stieg Larsson's books make Dahl want to read

I am often asked if the library accepts book donations, and we certainly do. Because collection development is a library responsibility, we reserve the right to make the decision as to whether gift books will be added to the collection, set aside for a library used book sale, given to another institution, or discarded.

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COLUMN: Not all great books in the library live on the New Title Rack

Even for a library, the Newberry Library on the city's Near North Side has been getting an awful lot of books delivered to its freight dock in the last couple of weeks more than 120,000. And as it opens its 26th annual book fair Thursday, it expects more than 100,000 to leave again by Sunday.

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Treasure hunt with Newberry's Book Fair

Sporting all-black military gear on a hot summer morning, "Transformers 3" actor Josh Duhamel took a leisurely bicycle ride around Pioneer Court off Michigan Avenue on Friday while waiting for his next scene.

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'Transformers' takes over Michigan Avenue

The company saw a 12 percent drop in subscription ticket sales in the 2009-10 season and was forced to use roughly $2.7-million in reserve funds to balance its books for fiscal 2010.

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Chicago Opera Company Begins to Recover From Recession

              The depressing joint on Pico and La Cienega Blvd known as The Mint rarely books bands that will rock your socks off. I blame the chairs. Any place that calls itself a music venue and has chairs and tables on the dance floor, is sure to be a subdued affair.

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Trampled By Turtles @ The Mint, 4/22/10

A collection of rare 14th-century texts, some by a leading Roman Catholic dissident, has become part of the Newberry Library and will be available to the public.

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Library Buys 14th-Century Book by Catholic Rebels

Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced its nominations for best cookbooks of 2009 . And while we're nodding our heads in approval of some, the true test of a great cookbook is one that remains on the shelf for good, dusted with flour and stained with smudges from years of trial, error and success.

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Cookbook love (Chicago Tribune)