Friendships? We came close to friends in this job, but never too close. Friends couldn't get fired from your life, but in the union movement, especially representing three shifts a day, your job was your life....

The Initiation: street poetry...

"Life is so precious, and sometimes when we are in good health we take it for granted. We don't appreciate our life until we are forced to." By Steven Ponton At age 9 Journal entry...

OUR PRACTICE: Workers Compensation Medical Malpractice Personal Injury The Illinois Workers Compensation Act...

"The Infant Welfare Society's first patients were immigrants coming to the new world in 1911. Our first caregivers wore petticoats and shawls. These women worked out of storefronts in poor neighborhoods to offer clean, safe milk, and education to mothers and babies. "Our patients today are immigrants as well, but...

"After 20 years in America, Salvador had struck the perfect balance of work, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. As a waiter at various Italian restaurants around Chicago, he could make $200 a day, enough to pay the rent and cover his habits. Salvador was often too tired and hung over...

"There once was a man who dreamed of being a theater performer. He memorized Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches and could perform them on the spot. He earned his Associate of Arts degree in Chicago and eventually landed in New York City where he earned his Bachelor's degree from...