Business
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From passion to place
Champaign County natives Annie Murray Easterday (ACES ’07) and Lauren Murray Miller (ACES ’06) built Pear Tree Estate as a place where dreams come true and, in the process, manifested a dream of their own.
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Eat this.
Joanne Lee Molinaro (LAS ’00) is known to millions as The Korean Vegan, whose storytelling and plant-forward Korean recipes have sparked a global following. Her James Beard Foundation award-winning cookbooks blend heritage, history, and heart, offering readers more than meals: They offer connection.
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Leading authentically
Brooke Elliott, dean of the Gies College of Business, answers the Proust Questionnaire
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Yard Show
English professor Janice N. Harrington’s recently published book of poetry, “Yard Work,” was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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A step ahead
Shawn Sorsby (FAA ’05, ’11, GIES ’11) is the founder and CEO of A Step Ahead Chess, a youth-focused nonprofit leveling the playing field in chess and life.
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Tea for two
Fifteen years ago, two college kids walked into a tea house in Prague. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is the moment that changed Dan Klein’s (Gies ‘10) and Patrick Tannous’ lives. They’ve been living loose, their company motto, ever since.
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Built on coal
We visited Gillespie, Illinois to get a feel for what happens to a town when the mines close and the plants shut down.
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Farming in the Windy City
From rooftops to abandoned lots, urban gardening in Chicago is thriving.
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Savoring a Chicago classic
Steffie Drucker (MEDIA ’17), granddaughter of Superdawg’s founders, reflects on the family legacy.