Robert Montgomery, the new executive director, was raised minutes from Pullman in the Rosemoor neighborhood. The foundation's goal is to make Pullman a draw for visitors from across Chicago and the nation.
Hundreds of suburban families will get to have a wholesome Thanksgiving meal thanks to a local charity group s efforts to get organic, halal turkeys to those in need.
A Puerto Rican transplant, Milagros Bravo was an instructional specialist at Des Plaines Elementary District 62 when she was asked to help set up the district s bilingual program. That was 20 years ago. Now, Bravo, 54, of Vernon Hills is retiring as the district s director of the English as a Second Language, bilingual, and world language programs.
We begin today s column recognizing the life and legacy of Marco Ortiz of Lake in the Hills a poet, a loving father and husband, an avid community volunteer and a trusted colleague. Ortiz was diagnosed in December with cholangiocarcinoma a rare and aggressive bile-duct cancer and died May 6 at age 60.
The young Afghan men prayed together at a Willowbrook, Illinois, mosque just two days after arriving in Illinois from a military base in New Jersey. Afterward, they shared a meal