BLUE ISLAND, IL —  After over 100 years of providing health care services to the Blue Island community, MetroSouth Medical Center announced that it is closing by end of September. The struggling 314-bed hospital, located 18...

CHICAGO — It wasn’t the homecoming she would have wanted. 66-year old Julita Bartolome was forced to take a flight back to the Philippines on Thursday afternoon after being deported by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — A mental reset button was what it took for 25-year-old Chicago Cubs’ infielder Filipino American, Addison Russell, to convince team officials to promote him back to the big leagues, three weeks after being...

GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS — A disturbing video from a December 2018 incident showed two nursing home aides — including a Filipina — teasing an elderly woman with a hospital gown as she struggled against them. It was...

CHICAGO, IL —  “A tragic 24 hours for our country” – this was how the Chicago Police Department described the tragic situation — not just in city, but in the rest of the nation. In Chicago...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Social media comments spiked for baseball fans yesterday as news broke that Chicago Cubs’ infielder Fil-Am Addison Russell was officially being sent to the minor leagues, with Triple-A Iowa. After coming back from...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — As more than a dozen states are restricting abortion, there are several states expanding abortion access such as Maine, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Nevada, and Illinois. Last month, Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker...

CHICAGO — Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law last Wednesday that protects a woman’s “fundamental right” to abortion. The legislation, called the Reproductive Rights Act, would require all private health insurance plans...

CHICAGO — Lea Salonga yet again wowed her fans recently as she sang with her full band, in her two-hour concert at the Copernicus Center in Chicago. When the 48-year-old singer broke her tibia in January...

CHICAGO — Chicago was the first stop of the “Father & Son” US concert tour. On Friday, die-hard fans of Piolo Pascual and his son Inigo gathered at the Copernicus Center, and sang along with OPM hits including Inigo’s...