Ginger Brashinger

The Beverly Arts Center in Chicago will celebrate its past and welcome the future later this month at the 44th annual auction, deemed BAC to the Future. "One of our...

Barbara Cellini is helping those with Huntington's disease and their families have a better quality of life through the Thomas Cellini Huntington's Foundation. "I want them to live with the...

A "kind of a gift" from Bonny Sandona to her husband George became the gift that keeps on giving for hundreds of people over the last decade. Sandona, 67, said...

Jaselyn Putman saw "things that need to be done" in the community where she works, she said, and she decided to make a difference. Promoted earlier this year to manager...

Always a musician at heart, Jon Pierre, 33, abandoned his engineering studies at the University of Illinois in 2001 to pursue a career in music composition. His most recent achievement...

Doing what he loves on a "global stage" will be a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Mokena resident Bob Reczek said. Recently selected as a basketball referee for the 2015 Special Olympics World...

To ease the concerns of working parents whose seventh- or eighth-graders get a weeklong Thanksgiving break from school, The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park will expand its hours next...

Marilyn Aspan thinks there may be a couple of things that set her apart from other volunteers at The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park. "Probably (I'm) one of the...