Update: After a long wait, the Chicago Botanic Garden determined that the corpse flower affectionately known as Spike “lacks the energy” to bloom on its own. As a result, scientists will manually cut into the flower at 10 a.m. on Sunday, August 30. As the long-awaited blooming of its corpse flower approaches, the Chicago Botanic … Read more
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From cooking up a new $100 million (!) prize to venturing deep into the U.S. justice system, MacArthur Foundation chief Julia Stasch is shaking up Chicago’s biggest philanthropy.
Organization Founded Main source of wealth 2014 assets (in billions) 2014 grants (in millions) Mission Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2000 Computer software $44.32 $3,991 Help all people lead healthy, productive lives Ford Foundation 1936 Automobiles $12.40 $508 Strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, and more Robert Wood Johnson Foundation … Read more
How does a MacArthur fellowship change lives? Six Chicago winners offered to tell us. Sandra Cisneros Fiction writer, essayist, and poet Won $255,000 in 1995, when she was 40 Photo: Alan Goldfarb “The award let me spend more time with my father, who was dying while I was in the middle of working on my … Read more
