Bill McLean

Singing at home was never limited to the shower for a young Linda Kiracibasi. “I sang all the time when I was growing up, because music was always my thing,” recalls Kiracibasi, who was born in Los Angeles and attended high school in New Jersey. “Bless my parents (Ray and Margaret) for having to listen

The path to Adelaide Yoo applying for the middle and upper school principal post at Christian Heritage Academy in Northfield began with a jog, but she wasn’t running at the time. CHA history teacher Dr. David Noell was exercising when he envisioned Yoo—then the English Department chair at CHA and a teacher at the academy

Lori Consadori Lucchetti’s favorite example of the American spirit played out warmly after Winnetkan and philanthropist Ann Balusek read a Chicago Tribune feature about political refugee Ahlam Al-Jebory. Al-Jebory had arrived in the Chicago area in 2008 following a harrowing ordeal in her native Iraq and later in Syria. She fled her country after being

Imagine living with a certain medical condition and making 180 more decisions each day about your health than someone without that condition. Diabetes research conducted at Stanford University reported that startling finding. Thirteen-year-old Lake Bluff resident Edgar Kelley doesn’t have to envision such an arduous day. He was 11 when he was diagnosed with type