Trevor Jensen

Jack Meltzer played a role in shaping Hyde Park as an urban planner who crafted blueprints for the demolition and rebuilding of large swaths of the South Side Chicago neighborhood...

James Z. Higa invented an artistic form involving folded paper that he called "Krimpart." Using a tool of his own design that consisted of two plastic tubes, Mr. Higa folded...

Thanks to Frederick H. Cohen, poor children in Illinois have a better shot at quality medical care than they did just a few years ago. As a corporate attorney working...

Virginia M. Ohlson helped resurrect the nursing profession and establish public health principles in Japan after World War II, and she was part of a team that studied the effects...

Theodore Noose's road to Tinseltown started on State Street in the Loop, where he was discovered while directing traffic in the mid-1960s. An advertising executive at Leo Burnett thought the...

Tall and ever-elegant in one of his many tuxedos, maitre d' Arturo Petterino led diners to their tables at some of the swankiest restaurants in the country, trailed by an...

Louis Cainkar won work as attorney for his hometown of Evergreen Park in 1951, establishing a specialty that made him for many years the pre-eminent municipal attorney in the southwest...

Ask a group of boys what they want to be when they grow up, and the answers might read something like Jerry Lawrence's resume. He was a Chicago police officer...

As a girl transplanted to Chicago from rural Kentucky, Shelby Jean Davis made a splash on radio singing as "The Little Mountain Sweetheart." She later sang under the name Shelby...

Robert E. Powell brought progressive management techniques and a straightforward approach to a long career at Inland Steel, where over 34 years he held a number of top sales and...