Joan Giangrasse Kates

Dr. Luba Babich-Jaksic struggled to launch her North Side medical practice in the late 1960s after emigrating from Serbia. "She spoke fluent English, but there weren't many female family practitioners...

In more than 40 years of teaching at the Music Institute of Chicago, cellist Gilda Barston earned a reputation as an impeccable mentor and leader whose insistence on the highest...

Alex Vickas was 10 years old when he and his family fled a war-ravaged Greece at the end of World War II and settled on Chicago's Northwest Side. "They came...

When Elizabeth "Betty" Butler became a professor in the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration in 1959, she was already an astute observer of the role of race...

Mary Sawers had been a volunteer nurse with the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Program for just two years when Hurricane Marilyn slammed the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in...

Art Griesbaum Jr. was luckier than many on that April day in 1945 when the ship he served on in World War II, the USS Colhoun, was sunk by Japanese...

For nearly a half century, Loretta Grzetich and her husband owned and operated Sonny's Inn, a restaurant and bar housed in an old train depot along the Illinois Central railroad...

Santina "Sonny" Litturi was one of just two women in her dental school's graduating class in the late 1940s and became the first female appointed to the Illinois State Board...