Fact: One in 10 kids will suffer some form of mental illness before the age of 18. The most severe cases in northern Illinois, including those abandoned by their families to the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), often end up atAllendale Association in Lake Villa. Allendale isn’t very well known, primarily because our […]
Violence on the street and chaos at home was the only life high school freshman Anays Antongiorgi knew. That all changed when she became active in Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development (BUILD), a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that takes at-risk youth from the margin into the mainstream. Antongiorgi bonded with BUILD staff and her peers […]
Each fall for 25 years, musical purists and collectors traipsed to the parking lot of Old Orchard Center, where a yellow tent promised rare finds in LPs, old 78s, 45s, 8-tracks and cassettes. Until the age of compact discs (and, really, until digital formatting and MP3s achieved their grand takeover), the Mammoth Music Mart offered […]
Though it’s the state insect of Illinois, the beloved North American monarch butterfly is losing breeding ground in the Midwest.
On Friday, March 7, Make It Better’s Founder, Susan B. Noyes, donned her dancing shoes to support the fight against breast cancer at the 9th Annual Dancing with Chicago Celebrities. This star-studded charity ball, presented by Arthur Murray Dance Centers and held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, is committed to fighting breast cancer in the Chicagoland […]
Twenty years ago, when Artistic Director Michael Halberstam first founded Writers Theatre in Glencoe, their plays were produced in the back of Books on Vernon, hardly an auspicious start. But with persistence, charm, and riveting, must-see productions, Halberstam won over Glencoe, the North Shore and Chicago, expanding into a larger space at the Woman’s Library Club of Glencoe. This year, […]
Growing up in Evanston in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Laura Tucker found herself surrounded by adults and students that were advocating for social change: ending the war, passing the ERA, desegregating schools. Of her own family, Tucker says, “It was expected that you know what’s going on in the world, and that you do what you can to […]
Paying taxes is one of those accepted, if distasteful, responsibilities of adult life.
What his grandfather did for plastic manufacturing, Liam Krehbiel, Founder and CEO of A Better Chicago, is poised to do for venture philanthropy. That’s a big statement. Frederick Krehbiel founded Molex Inc. in 1938, when plastic was in its infancy. The Krehbiel family recently sold the Chicago-based business for $7.2 billion. Venture philanthropy is another big idea in its infancy, […]
While still students at Harvard Law School in the mid-‘80s, Michael Brown and Alan Khazeirecognized a lack of opportunities for volunteerism. There was a real need for young adults to give back to their country by volunteering in struggling urban schools, but they lacked the organized means of doing so. Working with affiliates from their days […]
