One Small Step: Aon Step Up Challenge Raises $300,000 for Lurie Children’s

Patient champion Mary Cate Lynch and her family.

By Kathleen McAuliffe “Ready, set, go!” With a smile, Mary Cate Lynch, a Beverly six-year-old with Apert Syndrome, sent participants scrambling up 80 flights of stairs, to the top of the Aon Center, as part of the company’s Aon Step Up for Kids challenge. More than 3000 people raised over $300,000 for the Family Services […]

Surging Northwestern breaks into AP Top 25

By Eric Burgher Northwestern is in uncharted territory. The Wildcats placed 25th in the Associated Press rankings Monday, the first time they have ever been ranked this late in the season. The Wildcats have only been ranked four other times in the school’s history and have not been in the AP poll this late in […]

Voices of the Women’s March on Washington

Marchers in Washington dressed in “pussyhats”

By Jane Bodmer While much of America was transfixed by last weekend’s pictures of women marching and chanting for human rights across the world, if you looked closer, you saw something perhaps even more extraordinary—men, millions of them, arm in arm and demanding equality.

Time to Begin: Rebuild Renews Optimism Among Sox Fans

Sox fans gathered at Sox Fest on Jan. 27 in Downtown Chicago

By Kathleen McAuliffe The new guys typically do not attract as many cheers as the veterans. But when they were introduced before fans at the White Sox Fest on Fri. Jan 27, the team’s MLB.com top-30 prospects elicited thunderous applause that rivaled Jose Quintana and Todd Frazier. So, too, did General Manager Rich Hahn, the […]