The 8-year-old boy reached the top of the Banner Day Camp climbing wall and rang the wall’s bell a few summers ago. His reaction, 24 feet above a crowd of…
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Fired Up
How did Tony DeRose roll in high school? As a tire boy for his father’s Libertyville-based company, Berry Tire & Auto, that’s how. For years he’d deliver tires and change…
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United They Stand
Decades ago, when Ted Stewart was a toddler, all things in his family’s house in New Hampshire had a shaky shelf life. Little Teddy was a bootieswearing bowling ball. Everything…
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Fashionably Great
Twin sisters Brie and Tyler Stolberg thought outside the Lemonade Stand when they came up with their summer business venture in early July. Way outside. The 10-year-old Highland Park residents…
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Lyon’s Den
Lake Forest native and former Northridge Prep High School golf captain Will Lyon has zero interest in shooting for a green jacket at the Masters. He’s been too busy succeeding…
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Tibbles ‘N (News) Bits
Longtime television newsman and Highland Park resident Kevin Tibbles covered Princess Diana’s funeral in London and marveled at flowers across streets and sidewalks stretching as wide as the Mediterranean. He…
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Selling Time
The clock behind the bar at Teddy O’Brian’s in Highwood is always 20 minutes, at least, ahead of the real time. “Bar time,” people in the industry call it. “It’s…
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King Of Hope
Shortly before Grandma Eleanor, an avid fisherman, died and received her license to fish for halos atop the heavenly waters above, she opened an eye as her grandson, Chris Tarzon,…
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Thanks A Lot
The minnow version of the American business reality television series Shark Tank darted and foraged for the first time last year, right here along the North Shore. Winnetka children’s author…
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Doses Of Success
Dr. Patrick Birmingham’s father, John, was essentially Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor in a pharmacist’s white coat for decades. He’d work every day but Christmas as an independent pharmacist in Connecticut…
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