Finding the perfect prom dress is an important part of the high school experience. The Glass Slipper Project is helping make all girls feel like Cinderella on their big day. The Glass Slipper Project is a non-profit organization that collects new and almost-new formal dresses and accessories for juniors and seniors in Chicago area […]
Their story could be an American fairytale. Blonde, perky cheerleader meets tall, handsome basketball player at a small-town high school in Pennsylvania. They fall in love and live happily ever after. They have two children, Truman and Max, and have been married for 20 years. When they first got married, Jon explains, “We moved […]
Steven Cohen built a bike for his 11-year-old son Joey, who has autism, and in the process created a tool that brings special needs kids and adults independence and joy. And his JoRide bike (aptly named after his son) is getting lots of attention. Already, local news outlets have praised Cohen for creating a bike […]
Everett Elementary School students don’t just learn about math, science and language, they use what they’ve learned to make the world a better place. After studying bears in the classroom, Everett kindergarteners took their learning one step further by painting the bears in art class, but it didn’t stop there. Each painting was copied onto […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a love story: the story of a couple who fell in love with the beauty, the balance and the philosophy of a Chicago-based architect who died before either of them was born. Their enthusiasm became the catalyst for establishing The Benjamin Marshall Society. Jane Lepauw, who grew up in Northbrook, and her Parisian […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder can count the band Arcade Fire as readers and fans. The Montreal based-band helped get his best-selling book about Dr. Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” translated into French. Coinciding with the September release of the French edition, Arcade Fire held a free concert in Montreal […]
