Elburn resident Jen Hall served in the U.S. Air Force as an air traffic controller and flew F16 fighter jets at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

After spending four years in the Marines, Shannon Moose has now made a name at St. Charles North as the head athletic trainer.

While serving during the evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021, U.S. Navy Reserve Corpsman Brooke Christenson helped a woman deliver a placenta that was stuck following childbirth – on an airplane – ultimately saving the woman’s life.

Sycamore resident and U.S. Army veteran Nate Johnson is the assistant superintendent of the Kane County Veterans Assistance Commission, where he finds peace in helping his fellow veterans.

Jamie Dunlap became a business teacher at Geneva High School because of a boring accounting instructor – and she took a circuitous road to get there.

Celebrating Neil Currie's legacy at St. Charles East: A beloved voice in local sports, and history teacher.

Cailla Swanson is in her third year of teaching special ed at Geneva High School.

Chad Clarey became a teacher and a coach because teachers and coaches mentored him.

Unlike K-12 classroom teachers, LaTart also works with a wide age-range of students, and he doesn’t like to use age as a metric for responsibility.