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An Urban Oasis and Why it Matters to McHenry County

Written on October 17, 2012.

I want to share an inspiring story that I heard earlier this week: Some years back, Michael Howard, Director of the Fuller Park Community Development Organization in Chicago, learned that his neighborhood had the third highest...

Snowflakes and Wilson Bentley

Written on January 31, 2012.

When first married, my husband and I moved to Vermont from Chicago, motivated by our image of that state as a beautiful, rural paradise – the antithesis of gritty Chicago where our car got broken into every few weeks. We thought...