Pursuits
Harvard Suicide Expert, Chicago Architect in ‘Genius’ Group
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Jeanne Gang, a Chicago architect; Cuba-born percussionist Dafnis Prieto and cellist Alisa Weilerstein are among the artists in this year’s crop of 22 MacArthur Foundation “geniuses.”
They will each receive $500,000, paid out quarterly over five years by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. John D. MacArthur owned and developed Bankers Life & Casualty Co. (now a unit of CNO Financial Group Inc.) and had numerous real estate holdings in New York and Florida. His wife Catherine (1909-1981) served as a director of the foundation and held positions in many of his companies.