Chicago Magazine – September 2019

76 CHICAGO | SEPTEMBER 2019 He is a neat freak to the extreme. The man actually folds his dirty laundry. “I’m kind of OCD,” he s ...

SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 77 PH O TO G RA PH Y: (G A LA )^ C H RI S^ SW ED A /C H IC AG O T RI BU N E; (O TH ER S) C O U RT ES Y^ ...

DO TR A triple transplant — heart, liver, kidney — is an incredibly rare procedure. Then, over a 48-hour stretch, UChicago Medic ...

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80 CHICAGO | SEPTEMBER 2019 cells that infiltrate and all but shut down organs — in Daru’s case, the heart, liver, and kidneys. ...

SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 81 The transplant surgeons (from left): Yolanda Becker (kidney), Talia Baker (liver), and Valluvan Jeev ...

82 CHICAGO | SEPTEMBER 2019 PH O TO G RA PH Y: (T O P^ RI G H T) C O U R TE SY O F^ SA RA H M CP H A RL IN ;^ ( A LL O TH ER S) ...

SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 83 The attending physician for both, Smith had hoped they’d find each other. They would be uniquely abl ...

84 CHICAGO | SEPTEMBER 2019 Immediately the procurement team begins making arrangements to retrieve the organ — book- ing slots ...

SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 85 After scrubbing in, Jeevanandam’s team began prepping for the first leg of the marathon surgery that ...

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PH O TO G RA PH :^ ( C C R) C O U RT ES Y^ O F^ FA N TA SY R EC O RD S A CENTURY OF SEEING GREEN 1920 EDDIE CANTOR’S “GREEN RIVE ...

Green River branches out into other flavored sodas: grape, cream, orange, and three more. (The sister lines don’t last more than ...

“This hasn’t been a honeymoon,” says Jackson, here at Wendell Phillips Academy in Bronzeville. Opposite page: Scenes from a July ...

The high-profile chief of Chicago Public Schools inherited a system in crisis. Now she’s learning just how hard it is to fix it. ...

Clockwise from above: As a student teacher at Morgan Park High School in 1999; with her husband, stepson, and daughter on a fami ...

At a 2018 Chicago Board of Education meeting addressing revelations of rampant sexual assault and abuse of students SEPTEMBER 20 ...

94 CHICAGO | SEPTEMBER 2019 while continuing to work as a principal. “In her admissions material, Janice wrote that her long-ter ...

(Continued on page 134) SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 95 and “countless stakeholder meetings,” the CEO “felt comfortable entrusting h ...