Sunday Breakfast

Music pulsated Thaddeus Tukes’ childhood house in Hyde Park. His parents, Warren and Celeste, liked to play Gospel and old-school soul at their home in Chicago, as well as the occasional Motown song. “My parents fostered an appreciation for music when I was young,” recalls the 29-year-old Tukes, who still calls Hyde Park home. “I

United States Marine Corps Major and Military Instructor Pilot Keller Rongey has been all over the world since the age of 18, from the weeks he spent with a Rotary TABU (Towards A Better Understanding) contingent in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to overseeing the planning and execution of tactical sorties in support of operations in Northern

Six months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, Gretchen Grad was in bed at her home in Glenview, unable to fall asleep one night. The fractured world concerned her. “I was thinking, ‘Maybe we could do something to help heal the world,’” Grad says. Her mind raced. “Something” turned into an bold

In 1996, as Highland Park High School’s varsity football captain and starting quarterback Michael Bonamarte IV was ordered to do something in a game for the first time in his career. Then-Giants head coach Jay Geerdes eyed Bonamarte on the sideline and told him, “Go out there, ‘Bones,’ and return the kickoff,” near the end

After another one of her spot-on historical portrayals of a famous woman from mid- 20th century America, Leslie Goddard was approached by a concerned audience member. Goddard had performed a 45-minute, one-woman play about Rachel Carson, the marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose 1962 book, Silent Spring, documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate

An only child who grew up in Cincinnati, jazz vocalist Petra van Nuis today likes nothing more than to be surrounded by talented musicians when she entertains. She formed the band Petra’s Recession Seven in 2008, right in the middle of the Great Recession. Her six partners in sublime artistry are her husband, Andy Brown