Violet Miller

GA Reporter

Violet is a general assignment reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times after starting as a Murals and Mosaics intern and later a freelancer. She was previously a breaking news correspondent for The Daily Herald.

The Warren Hickox House dates to 1900. It is one of Wright’s first Prairie-style homes.
On the final weekend of campaigning before Illinois polls open, candidates treaded two well-worn campaign paths: St. Patrick’s Day parades and churches across the city.
Thousands of revelers flooded the Loop on Saturday for that most Chicago of traditions: the greening of the river.
La agencia de salud ofrece vacunas MMR gratuitas para niños y adultos sin seguro en clínicas de la ciudad.
The newest cases were both in adults at the shelter. The city’s total number of cases is up to five, the city health department says. More than 900 residents of the shelter were vaccinated over the weekend and are being quarantined for 21 days.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United — which represents 2,800 nurses in the health system — said the one-day strike set for Thursday was canceled after a tentative contract was reached.
The city health agency is currently screening other residents of the shelter at 2241 S. Halsted St. and those who may have come in contact with the children while they were contagious, officials said in a Sunday news release.
The audience at the largest campaign event of Illinois’ primary season skewed heavily toward a younger crowd, many of whom showed up to see the headliner rather than to support the 33-year-old challenger to longtime incumbent 7th District Rep. Danny Davis.
O’Hare recorded a high of 72 degrees Monday, one degree shy of the record set in 1983, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Rafal Ogorek. Rockford broke its March 4 record of 71 degrees in 1983, with a high of 75.