Last year in February, Sue Surane was supposed to be celebrating her retirement, spending long days with her grandkids and husband after 45 years as an emergency room nurse. Instead, the COVID-19 virus appeared in Illinois. Days that were scheduled for retirement were instead spent ensuring that her colleagues at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove knew how to don and doff .
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Downers Grove Village Commissioner Rich Kulovany talks about his COVID-19 ordeal, which included 99 days in hospitals and being intubated on a ventilator and put in a medically induced coma.
Posted5/10/2021 5:30 AM
On Feb. 7, Naperville paramedics responded to the home of 67-year-old Marsha Slaboch to find her unresponsive, not breathing and without a pulse.
Her husband, Randy, watched helplessly as they performed advanced cardiac resuscitation measures, fearing she wasn t going to make it. But on the way to the hospital, the crew was able to revive Slaboch, who was awake and alert the next day.
There s absolutely no doubt in my mind they saved her life, her husband said.
Nearly three months later, Naperville medics returned to the Slaboch household to perform another potentially lifesaving act: administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
Addison man remembered for giving inspiration to teens via performances A memorial has been established at the place where Jonathan Chambers-Green died in a crash last week in Addison. courtesy of Ray Moffitt
Updated 5/4/2021 10:54 AM
Editor s note: A previous version had an incorrect town for the founder of the MWAH! troupe.
Former members of a teen performance troupe dedicated to giving inspirational messages and support are mourning the death of a peer.
Jonathan Chambers-Green, 19, of Addison died in a motorcycle crash April 27, according to Addison police.
Chambers-Green spent four years as a member of MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe. MWAH stands for Messages Which Are Hopeful.