Joan Giangrasse Kates

Mattie Smith Colin, a reporter for the Chicago Defender, was dispatched to a Chicago train station in 1955 to cover the return of Emmett Till's body. A deeply moving experience,...

For many visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden, Karen Zaworski's handwritten, chalk-on-blackboard musings, known as ephemeral signs, were as much a part of the experience as the hugely popular corpse...

From the very young to the very old, Barbara Gilbert spent a lifetime helping others. She began volunteering in the early 1950s with a position at the Chicago Club for...

Trudy "Casey" Stryganek toured the country with her twin sister for three years as a featured act in the Ice Follies. During the finale of a closing night in Madison...

When Elwood "Woody" Hasemann headed his first International Manufacturing Technology Show in 1982, about 97,000 individuals attended, with 1,000 exhibitors filling 900,000 square feet at McCormick Place and at the...

John G. Johnson, who worked as a north suburban installation and repair manager for Illinois Bell in 1973, was headed home from work one evening when he saw two cars...

As a carpenter at the Art Institute of Chicago, Stephen Zarr built displays for both temporary and permanent exhibits and figured out ways to showcase and secure priceless works of...

As chair of the theater department at Lewis University in Romeoville, and later as head of the Performing Arts Centre at St. Patrick High School on the Northwest Side, Chester...

The Fish Keg has stood like a beacon on Howard Street in West Rogers Park for more than six decades, attracting a loyal clientele drawn by the shop's fried fish,...