A teenage boy wakes up and sees the first Valentine’s Day card he’d ever received hanging on the wall in his room. He’d put it there. Maybe he was a…
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Screen Savor
Mila Furman was 11 years old, maybe 12, when she first watched the Food Network show “Essence of Emeril” with her mother, Dora. Mila and Mom kicked back at home…
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Buoyed With Perspective
Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
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Indefatigable Determination
Perseverance personified? Look no further than Lisa Chrisopoulos. In mid-2019, her reputable family business in Wilmette, Heritage Trail Mall (now Heritage Trail Mercantile in Northfield) got hit with a harsh…
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From Iraq To The North Shore: A Circuitous Route
Good thing the taxicab driver that smuggled Dr. Rami Taha out of war-torn Iraq stashed Taha’s duffel bag near the cab’s engine. Had the hired smuggler simply placed the luggage…
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He Writes! He Scores!
Euphoria lifted Rich Cohen to cirruscloud heights when his beloved Chicago Bears thumped the New England Patriots 46-10 in the Super Bowl nearly 35 years ago. Nothing in a sports…
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Teen Krex
A dinner in the Krex household in Glenview typically doubles as a business meeting. All three family members—Parker Krex and his parents, Steve and Erin—have a stake in the Deerfield-based…
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Remembering Jim Tilmon
Kids play with model airplanes at home. Jim Tilmon—a longtime meteorologist at several Chicago television stations and a former Highland Park Presbyterian Church parishioner—occasionally brought his toy planes to work….
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The Dad Gene
Gene Hara has held several titles in his lengthy and highly successful career at Banner Plumbing Supplies Inc.—from bookkeeper only two days after graduating from the University of Kansas in…
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Getting Warmer
Back in his New Trier East High School days in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Glenn Wall attended classes and performed in a band. “I wish I had taken…
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