Teresa Wilmot

Born and raised in Danville, Illinois, Teresa graduated from NIU in 1970, settling in Northern Illinois. After 7 years teaching English to 7^th graders in Forreston, she changed careers. She spent 39 years as an industrial buyer of carloads of flour, truckloads of steel, and containers of bandages, retiring as a “drug dealer” of prescription drugs for Mylan Institutional. A widow, she has one daughter, a Unitarian Universalist minister. Her primary hobby is music, having played viola with Rockford Symphony since 1972, but she also enjoys knitting and learning Spanish via DuoLingo.