Go Fighting Illini!!! Congratulations to the Illinois Men’s Basketball team and to coach Brad Underwood on making it to the NCAA tournament! I was never a big fan of sports until 4 years ago, but now I have more orange and blue clothing than any other colors in my closet! […]
About Jennifer: I grew up in New Lenox, Illinois. I graduated from the Kennedy-King College/UIC Dental Hygiene program in 1999, and am a Registered Dental Hygienist. I met my husband, Nezar Kassem, at UIC when we were both in our last year of school. In 2002, we moved from Naperville, […]
By Zainab Susi Happy Lunar New Year and welcome to the Year of the Ox!!! Last year was extremely difficult dealing with the pandemic along with many other sad and devastating events. Now Asian-Americans are getting attacked. How sad and shameful, especially around the special celebration of Lunar New Year. […]
About Tricia Kassem I’m originally from Lorain, Ohio. I got my BA in Psychology and Sociology from Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio in 1994. Specialist in School Psychology from Western Illinois University in 1997. I’ve been married for almost 26 years. Amin, my husband is the Chief Information Officer […]
About Rebecca Richardson Rebecca grew up in Paris, IL and attended the University of Illinois where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and went on to complete her Masters Degree in Education and Organizational Leadership. She taught public school briefly, but found her niche in continuing […]
By Zainab Susi One month ago, near the end of 2020, many of us were excited and looking forward to the beginnings the New Year would bring. We were hopeful that things would change for the better. Today is February 8 2021. According to the World Health Organization, there have […]
About Diana! I grew up in Illinois and earned a BA in English Studies at Illinois State University. I met my husband, Jason Blackman, at college and we moved to Washington, DC where we lived for more than a decade. While there I worked for a number of political and […]
If you could change one thing about the last year what would you change? Compassion, too many people didn’t take time to form their responses to situations. Is there anything new you tried last year? How was your experience? Not new, but new again, we started doing revivals again, both […]
By Zainab Susi The entire world witnessed what happened on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at the Capitol of the United States of America. I moved to the States more than thirty years ago, but this horrible event took me back to my childhood growing up in Karachi, Pakistan. Not in […]
About Stacey I grew up in the Peoria area, but allowed the military and college to drag me from Arizona to Washington D.C. and eventually Heidelberg, Germany. Upon returning to the states and after leaving the military, I lived in Philadelphia before marrying Julie and moving to Chicago. Julie and […]
