Stories from the Heart

Two-time All-Star Melvin Mora is retiring from baseball, five weeks shy of his 40th birthday. Mora played 13 seasons in the big leagues, 10 of them with the Baltimore Orioles. He began last year with the Arizona Diamondbacks, was released on July 1 while hitting .228 with no home runs and did not play again in the majors.

At the end of each whirlwind day, the parents of seven — including 16-month-old quintuplets Ilah, Paige, Enzo, Ellie and Gia — savor the quiet of the evening. It gives them a chance to take in how blessed they truly are and how much they have to be thankful for.

The Perez triplets used to hum to each other back when they were tiny elementary school students. That was long before they'd each risen to first chair in their respective instruments in the Edinburg High School orchestra.Back then, one of them would start the hum.Maybe it was Zack Perez,…

Now 55 years old, siblings celebrate their birthday and reminisce about their bond

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Carey home is how quiet it is. Not something you’d expect in a place with six infants, one toddler and as many as five adults around, day and night.

Most people have their hands full when they have a baby.

The lives of cerebral palsy triplets Deane, Ross and Jamie Beswick were changed for ever the moment they first sat in the saddle. Nisha Lilia Diu reports.

Growing up as triplets in Des Plaines was the life Tom, Dick and Harry Krause knew best. They watched Hopalong Cassidy, played cowboys and Indians, fished on the river and enjoyed weekend movies at the Des Plaines Theater.

This is the season for giving, and a lot of valley companies are stepping up to help out their neighbors.

HURLEY — Matt and Sandra Cochran have a house full of 3-year-olds.

Whether it be trips to the beach or Hershey Park, taking the same classes or graduating from Linganore High School, the 17-year-old Poole quadruplets do things together

JOLIET — The Walski quadruplets made headlines when they were born to a Romeoville couple in 1978.Newspaper stories detailed their trip home from the hospital, their first birthday and their appearance on the featured float in the village’s 1979 Founders Day parade.Linda Walski and her husband, Keith, already had four sons at home and they were trying for a girl when the couple conceived the …

Adele Jelley, from Newcastle, who was thrilled to find out she was pregnant again was shocked to discover she wasn’t expecting one more baby – but four.

A Pasco mom gave birth to three healthy babies. Not only are triplets rare, but this mom was not on fertility drugs at the time of conception, making the births even more rare.

The work ethic was instilled early in the three, who helped their father at his Pasadena barbershop. And they had strong community support. This fall they all set off for prominent colleges. For years, the Walker triplets were a fixture in their father’s Pasadena barbershop.