Trevor Jensen

Richard J. Kelly arrived in Mississippi in summer 1964, not long after three civil rights workers were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and buried in an earthen dam. An...

On any given weekday at Schurz High School, Susanne Conners went from teaching English to special education students, to helping foreign students with the language, to celebrating classic literature with...

Georgianna Schinagl, known to most as "George," ran a popular North Side tavern and restaurant on Granville Avenue and was active in Edgewater community affairs. An entrepreneur who also ran...

Squire Lance, a veteran political and community organizer, led efforts to improve schools and housing in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood in the 1960s, was a top adviser to Illinois Gov. Dan...

Robert A. Cleland's anti-nuclear activism dated to the early years of the atomic age, and was manifested across five decades in myriad marches, letters, vigils and speeches backing efforts to...

Carolyn M. Rodgers grappled with issues of African-American identity and culture with poems that took first flight during the vibrant Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s. A longtime educator...

Michael Slepcevich tended bar for 50 years at a nondescript place on Webster Avenue known as Mike's, where generations of police officers stopped after their shifts to unload. Through long...

Learning the foundry business from the furnace up after World War II, Richard E. Marks went on to become part owner of Sheffield Foundry on North Clybourn Avenue in Chicago,...

Dr. Hyman Hirshfield, a physician with a flair for poetry, was a lifelong peace and social justice activist who treated bloodied demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic Party convention and volunteered...