One Book, Everybody Reads
Writing novels is devilishly difficult. As Rosellen Brown has proven, even brilliant writers with scads of admirers nationally and hefty resumes get no easy trip up the hill. Just because…
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People
A Sentimental Journey
Perched on a metal chair in the middle of a crowded Loyola coffee shop, famed actor and playwright Ross Lehman closes his blue eyes for a second. Not to rest,…
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Noah’s Mark
One of the sharpest shooters in men’s basketball history at the University of Chicago helped an organization deter a different kind of shooter two summers ago. Noah Karras—a University of…
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Sunday Breakfast: Steven Elrod
At eight o’clock on a sunny spring morning, Highland Park’s Country Kitchen café is a busy place. In the time that it takes Steven Elrod to walk the 15 or…
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Dripping with talent
MaryGrace King had just won a 25-yard back- stroke race when she started to sprint toward her orange beach towel. Mom Sandi was holding it for her six-year-old daughter. Mom…
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Keys to the C-Suite
Shepherding students through their experience at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, head of school Meg Steele keeps her eye on every aspect of development. Social, emotional, intellectual, academic—the spheres…
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Heart, health, Hansen drive FSG mission
All eyes were on a 23-year-old Bill Hansen, a first-year teacher on his first day of a summer Head Start program circa 1980.The wide orbs belonged to the preschool children…
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Waukegan’s Got Talent
Singer Jackie Evancho may be just shy of her 19th birthday but she’s already had enough of a performance career to last a lifetime. A young woman with a soaring…
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Epic Staging
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago,Brenda Robinson loved all things art. She studied music at Morgan Park Academy, dance at the Beverly Arts Center, and relished films and…
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