By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 46 years old, Susan Burton didn’t have a lot going for her. It was 1997. She was fresh out of jail, and not for the first time. On her way out the prison guard said, “I’ll see you back in a little while.” It wasn’t unlikely. Years before, Burton’s 5-year-old son...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
On Sept 11, 2001, Lorraine Decker and her husband, Ken, were ready to fly to the Middle East to teach financial, tax and estate planning workshops across the region. It was supposed to be a routine trip for them, both financial consultants who had brought their...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A news story about a 5-month-old boy living in foster care who’d been kidnapped right out of his crib – never to be found – shook Judy Cockerton. She thought about all the other kids in foster care, the ones no one hears about until something awful happens. Soon...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After decades heading up a health clinic in Altgeld Gardens, an impoverished community of 3,500 in Chicago, Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon decided that the children she saw as patients needed much more than traditional health care to succeed in life. So in 2004, at age 67,...
