Social worker and nonprofit manager Laura Franz, MSW ’89, leads an agency dedicated to war veterans’ needs.

Every year, the University of Illinois Alumni Association honors recipients of the University of Illinois Alumni Achievement and Distinguished Service Awards. Here is the 2016 class.

1980: Pinball machine sound effects fill the air in Chicago Circle Center’s Bowling Alley as students play coin-operated games such as Meteor, Star Trek, Stars and Galaxy.

Post-UIC, Trish Charbonneau, ’98 CADA, joins the Chicago Force, a women’s tackle football team

Escape to the sun-kissed paradise of the Caribbean aboard one of the world’s largest and tallest sailing vessels, the Royal Clipper (March 4-11). Combine that trip with the March 11-18 Windward Islands trip for a fabulous 14-day adventure!