All Topics in Chicago
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How to Focus on the Business of Profits
John Y. Lafferty, Founder, CFO-Pro
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
John will provide information that will help CEOs and entrepreneurs to discover and understand financial issues in their businesses. When leaders gain this knowledge, profits improve and the business has a much longer life.
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How to Create Resilient Equitable Communities in a COVID-19 World
Kelwin Harris, Urban Planning, Race, Civic Engagement Speaker
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Our cities face serious threats; growth is uneven; neighborhoods are struggling; and streets are erupting in protest as COVID-19 has made existing inequalities worse. Now more than ever, we must address racial equity and provide strategies for prosperity for the good of everyone. Drawing from his experience as a community leader on the South Side of Chicago and as an urban planner, Kelwin Harris uses an equity lens to discuss multiple facets of systemic racism that persist and offers strategies and interventions for the road ahead. MORE >
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How the Illinois Foreclosure Process Works
Bryan Sims, President, Sims Law Firm, Ltd.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Bryan presents information on the foreclosure process in Illinois, including typical timelines and what one can expect during a foreclosure action.
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How Tax Planning Changes Through Four Stages of Retirement
Ted Buckley, Mooney Lyons Financial Services
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Do you know how tax planning changes through different stages of retirement? In retirement, your tax rate may vary widely over the years based on the timing and order in which you use different sources of money to pay for expenses. It is important to apply the tax code in an organized and efficient way. Learn how to create a retirement tax strategy. MORE >
You will learn:
• The critical tax questions to answer before retirement.
• The surprises that often make retirement more expensive.
• The four stages of retirement and important tax actions in each stage, including tricky IRA challenges.
• Mistakes to avoid when it comes to investments, health care, and estate planning. -
How I Became a Climate Advocate.
Mark Ailes, Climate Advocate, Citizens Climate Education
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
My climate story. A brief tour of how as an active bicyclist I became an advocate for national action on climate change. In particular how an effective nonpartisan solution became a large focus of my retired life. Followed by a question and answer session focused on the interests and concerns of the audience about solving the climate problem. (30 minutes to 1 hour) MORE >
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How Did We Get into this Mess?
Paco Aramburu, Broker, Touchstone Group Real Estate
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Paco will present a brief synopsis of the market factors that almost lead to the collapse of the entire banking system.
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How Antioxidants can Lead You to a Higher Quality of Life.
Gregg S. Kuhnen, Health Consultant, Circle of Well Being, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Learn about the way food works to give the body what it needs to keep it healthy, shown from a raw food chef perspective with research to back it all up.
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Hope Cometh: Breast Cancer Talks with Dr. Funmi
Dr. Funmi Apantaku-Onayemi, Breast Cancer Talks, Hope Cometh
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Dr. Funmi Apantaku Onayemi inspires women to overcome the fear of breast cancer based on her three decades of leadership in the field as a researcher, community networks’ operative and survivor. She demystifies the beliefs and misconceptions that have fueled paralyzing fear about the disease – paralyzing fear that has caused alarming rates of avoidable deaths. MORE >
She shares encouraging news with staggering statistics of breast cancer survivorship. Women will release the fear as they are enlightened and assured that hope has come. -
Home Access for Everyone
Lea Ann Skogsberg, Founder, Dollars and Sense
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
The number one desire of people as we age is to remain in our own homes. Yet many of us are one mobility impairment away from not even being able to enter or exit our homes. This challenge for society will continue to grow as Baby Boomers age. Most needs are short-term yet most commercial answers require permanent changes to a property making them undesirable to homeowners and impossible for renters. MORE >
There is a community-based solution to address this growing need to make home accessibility affordable for everyone. If you ever carried anyone into your home for a Holiday meal or experienced even "minor" surgery that affected mobility, you'll know why this is such an important topic.Ramps provide access for people with both temporary and long-term mobility issues. Yet while Medicare and Medicaid as well as private insurance programs underwrite the wheelchairs, walkers and assistive devices individuals require for mobility—except in some cases for veterans—there is no standard way to acquire and/or pay for the ramps. This concept, a community-based inventory of modular ramps, seeks to establish a pilot project to demonstrate the value of borrowing (rather than owning) home access products. Rentals respond to occasional as well as temporary needs for residential ramps. Except for the screws, each component is reusable; the units are American made.
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History and current importance of drainage for a healthy and sustainable Chicago Region
Richard Lanyon, Consultant, Retired Executive Director, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Richard will discuss how the flow in the Calumet and Chicago Rivers was reversed, why this is still important today to protect public health, and how current water infrastructure reduces flood damages, provides recreation, recovers resources and protects Lake Michigan as a clean and safe source of water. Richard’s topics can be tailored to your local interests. MORE >