Resilience Stories

By:  Juan Ortiz, Host of Chicago Grit If you follow Angelo Perez on social media, you see a superhero. At 57 years old, he is tearing through life with a ferocity that puts men half his age to shame. In recent years, he has completed the Chicago Marathon, thrown himself out of a plane skydiving, and explored the ocean depths scuba diving in Mexico. My own kids have given him a nickname: "The Daredevil." It fits perfectly. He lives by a simple, thrill-seeking creed: "I always