We love it when charity and free stuff intersect. Through December 23rd at Wow Bao locations on State/Lake and on Jackson, any customer who donates a child's toy or gift will get a free lunch or dinner, value up to $5.99. The gifts should be new, in their original packaging, and unwrapped - and give something good, people! The presents will be donated to the Children's Memorial Hospital. So, you can get some free food and make a child happy at the same time! How could it be any better? more ›

Children’s Memorial Hospital will be making the case next week in public meetings for their controversial heliport proposed for their new $1 billion facility in Streeterville. Hospital officials are insisting every precaution has been taken to guarantee safe operation, and Children’s CEO Patrick Magoon declared it, “one of the most sophisticated and safest pediatric heliports in the country.” more ›

Four people, including a one-year-old baby, were killed when a medical helicopter bound for Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital clipped a WBIG radio tower and crashed in a field in Aurora. Besides the girl, a pilot, nurse, and paramedic were killed by the crash; no one on the ground was injured. The Air Angels copter flight had originated from Valley West Hospital in Sandwich. The helicopter clipped the tower shortly before midnight, but officials are speculating there may have been problems with the flight already because it was flying so low; under normal conditions, the copter should not have been flying low enough to hit the tower (the height of which ranges from 690 to 750 feet, depending on which media outlet's info you believe). Residents of a nearby apartment complex were evacuated for fear of damage from guide wires in the event the damaged tower collapsed. more ›