By White Castle

White Castle, the beloved fast-food hamburger chain and consumer-packaged goods business, inducted 13 loyal fans into its Cravers Hall of Fame during a virtual ceremony Wednesday night. The 13 inductees, from cities across the country, were chosen from hundreds of entries that all showed just how far some people will go to satisfy their White Castle Crave.
Adam Richman, renowned TV host, actor, author and culinarian, was also inducted as a “Craver in Extremis.” Richman, a long-time fan of White Castle, earlier this year hosted an episode of The History Channel’s Modern Marvels that featured White Castle.
White Castle created the Cravers Hall of Fame in 2001 as an exclusive club to recognize its most passionate and zealous fans, affectionately referred to as Cravers. Each year, hundreds of Cravers submit their White Castle stories in hopes of being chosen for the Cravers Hall of Fame. While some of the stories are funny, some are poignant and some are remarkable, all of them are very personal, heartfelt testaments to the ways in which White Castle has touched lives and created lasting memories.

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Posted on August 26, 2021

By Landmarks Illinois

Landmarks Illinois has published an online database, Women Who Built Illinois, which includes information on over 100 female architects, engineers, developers, designers, builders, landscape architects, interior designers and clients and their projects between 1879 and 1979.
The first-of-its-kind database is the result of an in-depth survey of women in architecture, real estate and design-related fields that Landmarks Illinois publicly launched in 2020 – a year that marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, upholding a U.S. citizen’s right to vote regardless of sex.

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Posted on August 18, 2021

By David Rutter

Things I know about Judaism and learned at funerals. I know Kaddish.
You must understand humility to know Kaddish. You must understand trust.
Having dabbled without lasting effect in many religions, I know that Christianity is an operator’s manual for a machine you’d just as soon ignore.
Judaism is poetry, and no example more profound than the Kaddish. It is a yearning call from deep in the soul for God’s comfort after catastrophe. Judaism knows how souls must manage death with elegance. It is spoken in Aramaic, the oldest of Jewish languages employed because the prayer was first spoken in that language.
Jews figure with some authority that God understood those words clearly 2,500 years ago and understands them now.

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Posted on August 10, 2021