By Mike Isaacs Inside her cozy Skokie living room, Gail Schechter takes her clarinet from its case and plays a few harmonious notes from it before packing it away again. She wants to have more time to play music, she says, but that is not the real reason she is

By Tim Moran Gail Schechter, executive director of Open Communities, a Winnetka-based non-profit which advocates for fairness in housing and social justice, will step down in January after 22 years at the helm of the organization. She is leaving “to pursue new opportunities to advocate for social justice,” according to

After 22 years as the Executive Director of Open Communities, Gail Schechter is leaving the agency in mid-January to pursue new opportunities to advocate for social justice. While we are sad that our visionary leader and mentor is moving on, we are so grateful that she has put in place