Shout Out: Alyssa Kaewwilai, interned at NASA
For Morton Grove native Alyssa J. Kaewwilai, 21, spending the summer working with NASA's satellite data and making it available to the public was a dream opportunity. From June to...
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Shout Out: Amy Maglio helps save women from female genital mutilation
Amy Maglio, 49, of Oak Park is the founder of Oak Park-based nonprofit Women's Global Education Project, which recently launched a campaign called Movement Makers. WGEP works to help girls...
Shout Out: Peter Kahn, English and spoken word educator at OPRF
A handful of Oak Park students were recently honored at the 2019 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards. More than 260 submissions were received for the contest, which was open to...
River Forest Library renovation starts
Construction started this week on a renovation project at the River Forest Public Library. As the lobby and staff offices of the library, 735 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, undergo renovations,...
Shout Out: Kara Jackson, 19, National Youth Poet Laureate
Having been named both the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate and the National Youth Poet Laureate, Kara Jackson, 19, of Oak Park will read from her recently published chapbook, "Bloodstone Cowboy,"...
Shoutout: Lucian O’Leary plays with Youth Symphony
Lucian O'Leary, 13, of Oak Park, who's been playing violin for about a decade, recently spent two weeks at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Door County, Wis. There, he...
Ethan Baehrend, 18, moving 3D printer company to Texas, pitching $2 million in funding
After graduating from Fenwick High School this spring, Ethan Baehrend, 18, of River Forest is growing his 3D printer company, Creative 3D Technologies, and moving operations to Austin, Texas, later...
Shout Out: Samantha Phelan, valedictorian
River Forest native Samantha Phelan, 22, recently graduated as valedictorian of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of San Francisco. Phelan, who graduated from Oak Park and...
Shout Out: Jill Salzman, creator of The Founding Moms
Since Jill Salzman, 40, launched The Founding Moms in 2010 in Oak Park, it's grown to offer twice-monthly roundtables for female entrepreneurs in more than 60 cities in 12 countries,...
Shout Out: Ellen Farrar, new children’s museum director
Ellen Farrar, 48, is the new executive director of Wonder Works Children's Museum, 6445 W. North Ave., in Oak Park. She succeeds Rachel Rettberg, who left earlier this year to...