The Rev. Kevin O’Rourke was a leading Roman Catholic scholar on ethics in health care whose stands were sometimes controversial but always, he believed, rooted … Read more ›

James D. Wigglesworth Jr. was 10 when he picked up a badminton racquet for the first time and launched a shuttlecock. It was love at … Read more ›

At Ferrara Pan, he invented some of the company’s well-known brands and built the company into a pillar of the Chicago area’s long-standing candy tradition, … Read more ›

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:  Nello Ferrara was a singer who liked to serenade people. But to snackers with a sweet tooth, he was better known … Read more ›

Rose Marie Economou always used the contacts she made over a storied career in broadcasting to help aspiring Columbia College Chicago students create a career … Read more ›

As a village trustee in Oak Park during the 1970s, Shirley Klem promoted progressive housing practices and encouraged racial diversity. At times the only woman … Read more ›