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Lisa Solberg doesn’t do pretty. When she paints a canvas or creates an assemblage, the results can be complex. But she wouldn’t have it any other way. “I always see my work as a sort of natural explosion,” says the artist. “Sometimes the work has the energy of the explosion and sometimes it has the

Brigitte Nettesheim was just the third student from her high school—in Warsaw, a small West Central Illinois town—to be accepted to West Point, the United States Military Academy. Her guidance counselor, a mentor to Nettesheim throughout her four years of high school, had a son at West Point and was familiar with the application process

After working for more than 30 years in the field of physical therapy— as a clinician, a researcher, and a professor—longtime Highland Park resident Gayatri Mathur felt it was time for a career change. She needed to do something, that would turn each of her rise-and-shine moments into an exercise in vitality. “I wanted to

Vietnam War veteran Lonnie Givens Sr. could have visited the three-quarter replica Vietnam Veterans Memorial on a number of occasions when it arrived in the Chicago area on “The Wall That Heals” Tour. The North Chicago native and Gurnee resident chose to skip the opportunities. “I was treated terribly when I returned from Vietnam,” says