By Heather Shannon, MS, CNM, NP, MPH When you think of “Reproductive Health Clinic” what are your first thoughts? Unwelcoming? Low quality? Busy? Understaffed? Uncomfortable? Cheap? Not for me? Well, it’s time to get a better look! Let me...
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COVER STORY: Rob Bick, advocate
PHOTOS BY ALICE G. PATTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY If you ask Rob Bick, his late wife, Ann Marie, was practically a superhero. “She had an extraordinary intellect, an extraordinary curiosity, a razor sharp sense of humor and a monumental sense of...
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What makes a good man? The answer to that question has evolved in the last few years (and it’s about time). Yes, a good man should be kind, and honest, and fair, and good with plants. But that’s not enough....
FOR A GOOD CAUSE: Al-Amin Muhammad, We Rise Above the Streets
Photos by Maureen Tricase/Capture Your Moments Photography Tell me about yourself. How did you end up on the streets? I am the son of Haitian immigrants. My parents moved from Haiti and settled in Chicago. They were both very hardworking people and...
INSPIRE: Lisa Alford
By Jessica Collins Lisa Alford’s favorite poem is Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata.” “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,” Ehrmann wrote in the 1927 poem, “and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender,...