One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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A Woman for All Seasons (440)
Kathy Dietz must have played hide-and-seek as a child. Every child did, right? But she also was asked to seek things for her mother, Dorothy, when Dorothy wanted to enhance…
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Former TV Anchor Skinner Lifted Spirits with Her …
It was a Maureen Skinner thing. A radio station would play an Elton John song. She’d turn the volume up on the car radio. She’d then sing along, at the…
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‘Sunday’ Best
We ate and talked. We laughed and listened and cried. And I — one grateful journalist — learned all about fascinating people with ties to the North Shore. Here are…
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Drama King
Zach Demet hears it all the time. A stranger sees his 6-foot-2, 260-pound frame, makes an immediate assumption and blurts, “You play football, right?” The gregarious-to-the-bone Demet usually smiles and…
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Ford Blooming, Stigma Wilting
The eight floral arrangements on the Ford family’s kitchen island in Lake Forest make Tom Ford stop on an August morning in 2017. The beauty had stunned Katie Ford’s husband….
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Legend in Our Midst
Marian Phelps Pawlick, sitting in her magnificent Lake Bluff home near Crab Tree Farm on an August afternoon, glances at a list of past Local Legends honorees. It had been…
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State Golfers Rise After Snowfall
Entering last weekend’s Class 3A boys state golf tournament in Bloomington, Lake Forest High School’s Scouts had won a sectional, a regional, the North Suburban Conference Meet, the New Trier…
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‘Channel’-ing Her Endurance
Marcia Cleveland’s parents, Bob and Carolyn, had a watertight reason for teaching a nearly 2-year-old Marcia how to swim. They got tired of retrieving their curious, fearless tot at the…
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‘Kos’ and Effect
The tucked white towel hangs from the back of Carson Kosanovich’s football pants. The New Trier High School senior cornerback/wideout wears white gloves on Game Days, too. Before most snaps,…
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