Chi Trib on Sunday turns its page one over to features.  Eds. want you to cuddle up with them over your coffee and rolls.  Come into our (and maybe your) comfort zone, they say.

So we have this:

Delivering hope

Lauren has a rare genetic disease. On Friday, she welcomed a new sister whose cord blood could cure her. But it isn’t that simple.

I’m sure it isn’t.  Trouble is, I do not know Lauren, nor have I ever heard of her, and cord blood has not been on my radar since our first child’s, first seen in our Oak Park apartment quite some time ago. 

And the five after that maiden voyage into child delivery, especially that of #2, who in our first house preceded the arrival of the tyro M.D. and his more experienced nurse helper.  I left the cord for them to handle, leaving the newcomer on Mama’s front until they arrived minutes later.

Lauren’t is a great feature story.  Women’s page stuff if there still was one?

Nothing like it in early pages of Sun-Times, just one tightly written news story after another, including one about the Maywood public school teachers being asked for their money back after they were systematically overpaid for four years, with its telling quote from one of them, now at a charter school, who

said he wasn’t surprised. “It was the most dysfunctional place I ever worked,” he said.

Go Maywood, I guess.