Sandra Pesmen - Pesmen graduated from the University of ILL, Urbana , Journalism College in 1952 and is a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame and the U of I Media Hall of Fame. Other honors include a Peter Lisagor Award, an IL State Medical Journalism Award and the Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Stick o’ Type award. She was a features writer and reporter for Lerner Newspapers, then for The Chicago Daily News, and was first features editor of Crain's Chicago Business. Pesmen then became Crain's Corporate Features Editor. She wrote the Executive Woman column for North Shore magazine for 20 years. Her “retirement” consists of hosting the blog www.widowslist.com, a Web Site she developed after the death of her husband, Harold W. Pesmen, a graduate of De Witt Clinton Elementary and Nicholas Senn High Schools.