Roots and Wings
Like most parents, I aspired to give my six kids roots and wings.
Parag Patel: Saving Lives in Kenya
Cardiologist Parag Patel started small when he began helping out in his native country, Kenya.
YouthBuild Lake County Pays Tribute to Donors
Wednesday, Oct. 12 donors, local elected officials and friends of YouthBuild Lake County gathered for their 4th Annual Donor Appreciation Event. Guests who supported the organization this past year through donations, in-kind gifts and services were treated to catered cocktails and hors d’oeuvres amid luxury automobiles, and learned firsthand from program trainees how their lives […]
Stedman Graham and Athletes Against Drugs at Evanston Township High
World class athletes inspired Evanston Township High School students.
Shop Pink at 900 North Michigan
There’s still time left to support Breast Cancer Awareness and feel pretty in pink. For the rest of the month, find special promotions for “pink items” at the 900 North Michigan Shops, with portions of the proceeds going toward breast cancer research and charities. Bloomingdale’s Proceeds from the purchase of The Pink Card, The Big […]
Dolores Kohl, Founder, Dolores Kohl Foundation
“Children are the messages we send to generations that we will never see,” says Dolores Kohl.
Fritz and Tracy Souder, and Donna Sims Wilson
A decade ago, the Kohl Children’s Museum occupied a retro-fitted bowling alley on Green Bay Road in Wilmette. Today, it’s located on an 8.8-acre parcel of land in Glenview and has been named one of the ten best children’s museums in the country by Parents magazine. Kohl would never have grown into such a grand, […]
Jill Feldman: Past President, LUNGevity Foundation
Jill Feldman doesn’t look or act like the victim of a cruel irony. She lost both her parents and two grandparents to lung cancer before she was 28. Jill saw the stigma surrounding lung cancer (it’s associated so strongly with smoking that people often assume it’s preventable), so she became involved in LUNGevity in 2001. […]
Kim Duchossois: President, Duchossois Family Foundation
When three generations of a family unite in purpose, great things can happen. For the Duchossois family, who own a conglomeration of businesses based in Elmhurst, the desire to make a difference is embodied in their family’s foundation, which is headed by Kim Duchossois. “My father and brother asked me to take this on,” she […]
Ellie Clarke: Women’s Board of Catholic Charities of Lake County
In 1974, Ellie Clarke’s 9-year-old daughter died of a brain tumor. In the wake of her daughter’s death, Clarke says her own life felt meaningless. “I thought about it a lot. What was I going to do? I wasn’t just going to sit around weeping all day,” remembers Clarke. So she began volunteering, first at […]
