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A Place for Grief

Wind phone installed at Canal Shores golf course in memory of Oliver Brown Leopold. Photo courtesy of Mary Leopold

Finding ways to honor and connect with loved ones who have passed Fact checked by Shannon Sparks   Oliver Brown Leopold had a robust life. As a teenager, he created apps for other students at Evanston Township High School and for the city’s fire department, where he had participated in their youth fire patrol program. During […]

Grief During the Pandemic

Finding one’s way through mourning and loss Carisa Urban was quite literally at the end of her rope. Working tirelessly as a nurse in a Covid-19 intensive care unit at a busy Chicagoland hospital, the Bolingbrook resident had her hands full.  She found herself not only treating an onslaught of severely ill patients, but also personally dealing […]