Laura A. Jibben, executive director of the Regional Transportation Authority-an agency with an annual operating and capital budget of $1.6 billion-was named Woman of the Year by the Women`s Transportation Seminar, an organization of transportation professionals. Jibben, who has been with the RTA since 1986, was named to her post last September.
Chicagoan Lucia Woods-Lindley, Sophia Fund founder, was one of six
”women of vision” honored by the Ms. Foundation in New York. Woods-Lindley is sole donor of the Fund, which since 1983 has contributed $1.6 million to educational, advocacy and policy programs for women. The Fund now will be distributed by the Ms. Foundation and the Chicago Foundation for Women. Awards dinner co-chairs were Olympia Dukakis and Marlo Thomas, actresses; Jessye Norman, opera singer, and Elizabeth Rohatyn, a New York philanthropist and social activist.
![Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ctc-VHR5442_183545767.jpg?w=525 "Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]")
