PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Every now and then we have the privileged experience to discover special people and Mary Ann Mitchell was one such person. They are not the ordinary folk doing ordinary things, but people who have that which sets them apart from the ordinary and they…well, make things happen on a large scale perspective with quality and timeliness in mind concurrently “raising the bar” for whatever mission they are pursuing. We are allured by their “magic ... .and linger to share their space... .for a time.

After less than a day of deliberations by a Chicago jury, Robert Sylvester Kelly, internationally known as the Grammy award-winning artist R. Kelly, dodged a 15-year prison sentence because the panel acquitted the singer on all counts of child pornography.