For the October 30, 2020, episode of ESPN’s Around the Horn sports roundtable show, regular panelist Sarah Spain—a 1998 Lake Forest High School graduate and an ESPN reporter since 2009—got…
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Post Perfect
A teenager with disabilities gets invited to hit up the mall with her new friends for the first time. The teen and her mother arrive at the mall. The new…
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Trev Forever
The coach who guided New Trier Township High School’s boys tennis team to another state championship last month—32 years after he won the state singles title as a Trevians junior…
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“Trey” Magnifique
Robert (Bob) O’Connell’s path to the purchase of his first work of art—and, ultimately, a fascinating career as an international art detective—began with a $20 bill and an order from…
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More Than A Name
Peyton Merrill needed two items and her husband, Topher, to come up with a catchy name for her first boutique in 2020. She sat in the couple’s Winnetka home, with…
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Red, White and Crew
Four words, uttered calmly by her grandfather, turned a terrifying moment on board a boat into an exhilarating one for Maggie Shea. “I was young, sailing on Lake Michigan, and…
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Gut Feeling
Space was available on Heidi Henderson’s desk at work one day in 2017. So the J.P. Morgan wealth management associate used it—as a makeshift pillow. “I had to put my…
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Sailing Through Life
The most interesting man in Lake Forest has to be Robert Biddle V—and not just because the highly competitive 48-year-old father of four whacks two-handed forehands and two-handed backhands in…
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Jay Talking
Jay Townsend turned red in a hurry at his wedding reception. His younger brother, a microphone-toting Jack, had just started reading a love letter that Jay wrote to his future…
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Seismic Shift
Imagine someone refereeing the Super Bowl one day and then jumping at the chance to head a crew of officials in a youth flag football game shortly thereafter. Christopher Kennedy…
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