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Vol. 7 No. 10
PHOTOS By LAURA KATAUSKAS/STAFF REPORTER
Top and clockwise: •The Special Spaces team and family gather in Kendall’s room. • Kendall explores her new room. • Mom Terra and Kendall share some cuddle time in their new room. • Kelly Knox who created the Chicagoland chapter of Special Spaces, hugs Terra.
Bent on a mission to create a special space for children suffering unimaginable obstacles, a team of volunteers created a dream bedroom for 4-year-old Kendall Atkinson
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olingbrook residents, the Atkinson family, mom and dad,Terra and Ben, Karissa, Kealey, Kayley, and Kendall, who suffers from a host of medical problems, came home to an unfamiliar, but wonderful change.The Special Spaces Chicagoland crew had made their mark on the Atkinson home, completing not only
a bedroom makeover for Kendall, but also two other bedrooms for her unknowing sisters, transforming spaces for the girls, hoping to create an oasis away from the constant medial worries of everyday. Kelly Knox of Naperville began the Special Spaces Chicagoland Chapter, after a little soul searching, taking her business of making drapes to a whole new level. Interested in finding out more information See SPACE, page 3