The Near North Side neighborhood tavern Weeds has been a garden of cultural delights. It was a cornerstone of Chicago’s poetry scene. It was the site of historic Thursday night jazz sessions…Actor John Cusack tended bar and Jamie Lee Curtis once drank tequila there. And there was Weeds bartender-host Sergio Mayora.
Intuit staff, board and friends mourn loss of founder Susann Craig
Photograph by Cheri Eisenberg of Susann Craig receiving the 2018 Visionary Award.
CHICAGO, IL
.- Susann Eickmeyer Craig, visionary Chicago art collector and a founder of Intuit, passed away peacefully on June 28, 2021, at Providence St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.
Born on Dec. 27, 1936, in Youngstown, Ohio, Craig spent her childhood in Madison, Wis., and Greenwich, Conn., where her father, Robert Eickmeyer, was the director of the YMCA and her mother, Viola, was an executive secretary. A family story that serves as a harbinger of her lifelong interest in other people relates that upon hearing laughter outside her room, two-year-old Susann shouted, Im missing something! That desire for participation and connection led her to seek out under-recognized talent and voices in the art world throughout her life.