Rochelle Crump has always had a heart for her veteran family. She served in the Women’s Army Corps during the Vietnam War (ERA) and she received a National Defense Service Medal for honorable service during a period of national emergency (Vietnam) and a Certificate of Recognition from the Secretary of Defense for military service during […]
On June 30, 2019, Lt. David Chmelar and Firefighter Paramedic Chad Tinsley, along with other members of the St. Charles Fire Department, responded to a call of a disabled boat that was getting dangerously close to going over the Fox River dam. Chmelar and Tinsley were able to position their boat next to the disabled […]
Dr. Kaleem Malik has dedicated his life to emergency medicine—focusing on helping Chicago’s most vulnerable and providing critical and life-sustaining care, where empathy is of the utmost importance. He has also volunteered for many global disaster emergency responses, including last year’s Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Bahamas, and in particular Abaco Island, where Dr. Malik […]
All healthcare workers are heroes, especially during these coronavirus times. But, nurse Ivan Escobar was named the ‘Everyday Extraordinary’ 2020 Nurse Hero by the Red Cross even before the virus arrived. When the driver of a car nearby was shot in his head, Escobar jumped out of his own vehicle and into action. He found […]
Change lives with a donation in honor of a 2020 Chicago Red Cross Hero, and your gift will be matched! The Covid-19 pandemic sadly forced the Chicago Red Cross to cancel its 18th annual Heroes Breakfast fundraiser, at which 14 heroes were to be honored. But, hopefully, by releasing their stories online instead, they will ultimately […]
Change lives with a donation in honor of a 2020 Chicago Red Cross Hero, and your gift will be matched! The Covid-19 pandemic sadly forced the Chicago Red Cross to cancel its 18th annual Heroes Breakfast fundraiser, at which 14 heroes were to be honored. But, hopefully, by releasing their stories online instead, they will ultimately […]
There are few people more inspiring than Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor Fritzie Fritzshall—the Red Cross of Illinois 2020 “Everyday Extraordinary” Global Citizenship Hero and President of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. At age 13, Fritzshall and her family were arrested at gunpoint and shipped via train to the horrific death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was […]
Patty Gonzalez and Maricela Wesby’s niece, AnaVictoria, was 13 years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia. It took truly copious amounts of blood, donated by others, to keep her alive for the following two years. Inspired by this, Gonzalez, Wesby and their Northern Trust colleague Georgina Adan started blood drives in AnaVictoria’s memory after […]
What is something simple that you can do, on your block, to help others? That’s an ideal question for anyone to ask during these Covid-challenged times. Intriguingly, it’s also the question that led Jahmal Cole to launch the youth volunteer service nonprofit and movement, ‘My Block, My Hood, My City’. In turn, this led the […]
