School, a Chicago Public School, and Whitney Young Magnet High School, a selective-enrollment public magnet high school in Chicago's Near West Side. While attending Truman College, Brendan was managing editor of All-Chicago City News. After Truman, Brendan went to Howard University in Washington, D.C. For two years starting in February, 1997 Brendan edited StreetWise, a street newspaper sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago. In 2003, Brendan graduated first in his class from John Marshall Law School and currently works as a lawyer representing criminal defendants and police misconduct plaintiffs. One of Shiller's granddaughters is the published poet Britteney Black Rose Kapri. Shiller is now a professional poker player. Helen Shiller and her long-time staff member Maggie Marystone were interviewed in separate chapters in Hope Dies Last, a collection of oral histories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Uptown resident Studs Terkel. Publications Shiller,Helen (2022), Daring To Struggle, Daring to Win Further reading References External links Chicago City Council members Jewish American people in Illinois politics University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni DePaul University alumni Illinois Democrats Jews and Judaism in Chicago Living people 1947 births American people of Latvian-Jewish descent Women city councillors in Illinois 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women