Margaret Ramirez

Chicago city planner and urban designer Tom A. Cokins dreamed big. He envisioned transforming the South Loop into a bustling neighborhood and creating a lakeside museum campus. As a city...

Dorothy Walker Runner refused to let the injustice of segregation diminish her goals or weaken her spirit. When West Virginia colleges barred blacks in the 1940s, Mrs. Runner moved to...

Dorothy Walker Runner refused to let the injustice of segregation diminish her goals or weaken her spirit. When West Virginia colleges barred blacks in the 1940s, Mrs. Runner moved to...

As a small-town family doctor in Antioch in the late 1960s, Dr. Edward R. Abderholden was concerned over the many deaths occurring while patients were transported over long country roads...

Edward "Ted" Ledder, a pharmaceuticals executive who guided Abbott Laboratories through a recall of intravenous solutions, was known to his colleagues as a great American success story. In 1971, the...

Growing up on a farm in southern Illinois, Thomas N. Phillips dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. Soon after graduating from veterinary school, Dr. Phillips turned his car into a travelling...

Morton Steinberg was known for the stacked corned beef sandwiches and homemade soups he served with a heaping side of affection at his Loop delicatessen. During the 13 years that...

Frank Tachau devoted his scholarly life to Middle East studies, raising its status from an obscure, regional specialty to a respected, academic field for students, world leaders, and an interested...

Andrew J. Nielo blazed through several vastly different pursuits in his life: Service as a Marine during World War II, a long career as a bank executive, and ministry as...