Kiran Deol needed two surgeries after being hit in the face with a bottle in a racist attack outside a 7-Eleven in December. Now, mostly recovered from her injuries, Deol has turned her experience into a stand-up act playing Thursday at Zanies Comedy Club in Rosemont.
At 17, Aditya Gupta of Rolling Meadows has earned a distinction few teens have achieved. The junior at William Fremd High School in Palatine is among only five high school students in the nation to receive the 2023 Scholar-Chessplayer Award from the U.S. Chess Federation awarded only twice to an Illinois student.