Supporting our local schools and businesses was so much easier before the Internet upended traditional retail and communication practices. Back in the day, shopping local epitomized convenience and community. Social networking meant visiting in person or volunteering. We didn’t average 8.2 hours per day on phones and in front of screens. One strong newspaper […]
Rona Green Taylor, 41, of Evanston, says she can’t remember a time when she and her husband didn’t talk about adopting. “In my perfect world, everyone would at least consider adoption,” she says. Today, the couple has three children: 7-year-old Kara, 5-year-old Julian and 9-week-old Nina. The eldest was born to them; the younger two […]
Lemonade stands with ice-cold drinks and fresh plates of cookies are a summertime staple. But while many young entrepreneurs become wide-eyed at the sight of a dollar, dreaming of toys and treats, Gabriella Cooperman has another goal in mind. Saddling up to service She was only 5 years old when she saw her sister, Danielle, […]
Race through Lake Forest in the largest Chicagoland event where both physically disabled and able-bodied athletes can compete side-by-side. What: An annual family 5K race put on by the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA) that gives people with physical disabilities the opportunity to compete with non-disabled athletes and embrace the organization’s motto of “Let […]
Never underestimate the power of creativity. For more than 50 years, Highland Park resident Wojciech (nicknamed Voy) Madeyski has expressed his passions through his work as an architect, artist and environmental champion. But it has been through his personal battle with Parkinson’s Disease, diagnosed in 2003, that he’s articulated the tremendous depth and power of […]
Six years ago, Rebecca Adair’s life was falling apart. Her daughter had been declared unfit to care for her kids, so Adair, a 54-year-old grandmother, assumed custody. “They fought all the time,” says Adair, who lives in a trailer park in unincorporated Cook County near Glenview. “The kids, (ages) 4 and 10 at the time, […]
Did you know that almost 20 percent of Chicagoans are affected annually by mental illness? The first step to healing such a large number of people is often finding the proper resources. NAMI of Greater Chicago, the local affiliate for the National Alliance of Mental Illness, is helping light the way. The organization provides information and […]
You don’t have to take a two-year meditation on a mountaintop to find your calling in life. Jim Dower found his just by walking through the front door of a Chicago public school. In 2003, college buddies Jim Dower and Daniel Isherwood started Urban Initiatives after spending time as teachers in schools around the Cabrini-Green […]
So a rabbi and a geneticist walk into a room… It sounds like the set up to a joke, but because of the serious threat posed by Jewish genetic disorders, people from the medical and the Jewish communities are coming together to find solutions to hereditary diseases. The Center for Jewish Genetics was founded in […]
Roslyn Turner knows how destructive pancreatic cancer can be—she lost both of her parents to the disease, both within months of their diagnoses. “People need to know this cancer exists—I mean, most people don’t even know where their pancreas is,” she says. “The numbers are devastating and people are shocked by them. They don’t realize […]
