With recent headlines too often focusing on shootings and assorted bad guys, it’s high time to single out some people who have made good—no, amazing—things happen in Chicago this year. They include a low-key philanthropist, a community-minded playwright, an innovative jazzman, a dedicated educator, and a young teen and a pediatric surgeon linked by acts … Read more
Donor, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital
Freshman, Phoenix Military Academy
Writer and director, ‘Crowns’
Composer and saxophonist
Founder, By the Hand Club for Kids
Late surgeon in chief, Comer Children’s Hospital
It’s not just Illinois that has a problem with lots of confusing, overlapping, expensive governmental structures; the federal government has built a lot of kludges to get across roadblocks and competing ideologies.
If no snow accumulates in Chicago today, it will set a record for the longest stretch in city history without any snow. The Midwest’s dry, drought-ridden year might be good for getting outside, but it’s crippling Mississippi barge traffic.
“People picture life after death in many different ways. We’d like to know how you think of life after death. Here is a card with sets of contrasting images. On a scale of 1-7, where would you place your image of life after death. d. 1. A pale, shadowy form of life, hardly life at all. 2. A life of complete fulfillment, spiritual and physical.” Survey says….
