Landmark Education News About Landmark Forum Graduates

 For the first time Genesis At the Crossroads is bringing together Arab, Jewish and Persian musicians to share the same stage in a series of concerts around the world.  Wendy Sternberg of Chicago created the project in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program in 1999 as a way of use art to bring the Arab […]

Quilt communicates–One Peace at a Time
From: Sun Times News Group
December 4, 2006
By FELICIA DECHTER Staff Writer
The seventh-grade class from Nettelhorst School was as diverse and patchwork as the peace quilts its students were meticulously creating colorful, cotton squares for.The kids were participating in the humanitarian project, One Peace at a Time, which will ship bright […]

In 2002 Penny Beatty had an idea to create a resource fair that specifically addressed the needs and interests of women. 5 years and 25 events later, this project is still going strong.
From: Suburban Woman North Shore
The spirit of community was a key factor for many of us who
decided to be part of the […]

Really big chill: Polar Plunge’s top fund-raiser has warm heart
From: the Chicago Sun-Times
by Rummana Hussain
On Sunday morning, Jennifer Kramer will throw on a Dopey costume and run into the frigid waters of Lake Michigan.
Some of her girlfriends, dressed as the remaining Seven Dwarfs, will follow close behind.
“We tried to recruit a male Snow White but […]

Olympic ambitions for lots
From: The Booster Wicker Park
January 24, 2007
By ANITRA ROWE Staff Writer
Sean Parnell of Wrigleyville is doing his part to get Chicago ready for its 2016 Olympic bid.
Parnell doesn’t have millions for a new temporary stadium. But he does have a plan to turn abandoned Chicago properties into points of community pride.
And Parnell […]