Same-sex marriage became legal 6 years ago in Illinois. Since then, nearly 15,000 gay couples have wed in Cook County.
Nearly 15,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot in Cook County, a milestone that advocates and elected officials celebrated Tuesday to mark the six-year anniversary of marriage equality in Illinois....
View Article November 21, 2019
Kenneth Young Center to open LGBTQ+ youth resource center in Schaumburg A LGBTQ+ youth resource center officially opens in Schaumburg this week, in what is seen as the first bricks-and-mortar locale in the Northwest suburbs solely dedicated to serving that population on a daily basis. October 07, 2019
Bolingbrook Pride Picnic and Puppies in 2019 Bolingbrook Pride is returning to the Chicago suburbs on June 9th, from noon to 6 pm. What began as a first-time community event last summer is currently in the planning and fundraising stages for an even better experience this year! March 19, 2019
Pete Buttigieg, the young and openly gay Midwest mayor, finds a voice in crowded Democratic presidential field The Navy veteran with a hard-to-pronounce name, from a city small enough to fit every resident in a college football stadium, seems to be winning the argument at the moment. Weeks after declaring his interest in challenging President Donald Trump, he has become, if not exactly well-known, a subject of interest for many Democratic voters, buoyed by a breakout performance at a CNN town hall on March...
March 18, 2019
'Tear You Apart' at Rivendell Theatre is about millennial roommates, slowly breaking up Despite its misleading, click-baity title, “I Wanna (expletive) Tear You Apart,” now at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, is actually a variously sweet and (mildly) bitter play about roomie friendship and the intense, difficult-to-define relationships that (depending on how they turn out) can either merely suck up a lot of our 20s or sustain us for the rest of our lives. March 04, 2019
