Press & News Archive

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), visited Second Act Mastectomy Boutique in Chicago, where she heard personal stories from breast cancer survivors.

For the liberal Pritzker dynasty, Jennifer’s politics were the problem, never her identity. But the former lieutenant colonel says she’s had enough of the president’s hate. “I don’t want to see my life, and the life of people like me, become a political poker chip.”...

Rob Havers, 51, joined the Pritzker Military Museum & Library as CEO on Feb. 4. Born in London, he comes to the museum from the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Va., where he was president for four years.

A collection of new luxury row homes graces Chestnut Street on the Near North Side, but you have to look closely to find them. They blend effortlessly with nearby mansions and homes that have stood for generations.

When media-shy Republican billionaire and retired Army Col. Jennifer Pritzker writes an open letter rebuking the GOP’s policies, people take notice.

To me, restrictions on transgender military service are personal. I am a transgender woman. Before my transition, I served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. I am proud of the value I provided the military during my 27-year career.

Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), received the Bicentennial HONOR 200 award as part of Illinois’ official 200th birthday celebration at Navy Pier on Dec. 3, 2018. The Bicentennial Birthday Party showcased the people, places and things that have made Illinois proud over the last 200 years.

After more than four years in the making, the collection of seven Italianate style residences known as the Chestnut Row Homes is ready to welcome its first tenants to the southwest corner of Clark and Chestnut Streets.

Crossing the intersection of Chestnut and Clark, it’s near impossible to miss the whir of construction in the area. The neighborhood is just one of many downtown witnessing a dramatic uptick in new housing, typically in the form of tall, slender towers packed with small units.

Across the country, institutions of higher education are responding to proposed changes in the federal definition of gender under Title IX. If implemented, gender would be defined as male or female, unchangeable,  and determined by an individual’s sex assigned at birth.