Phyllis Klein and I meet on a winter day, early afternoon, in Deerfield. An invitation had been extended to chat over breakfast at a restaurant, anywhere along the North Shore….
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Post-er Boys
They walked toward an exit, in silence, in a hallway at Glenbrook North High School, their basketball season now history after only two playoff games. New Trier High School’s boy…
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Weisberg paces Keshet’s drive for …
Abbie Weisberg hits the treadmill at her Evanston home and runs. It’s another day in the life of the Keshet executive director/CEO, another chance to clear her mind. She likes…
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So Happy Together
Ella Joy Won can’t stop laughing in the video. Eight years old at the time and playing Heads Up!—the game that Ellen DeGeneres plays on her TV show—Ella Joy had…
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Why so serious?
Graham Ambrose was 3, maybe 4, when he joined his grandmother Catherine to see Ratatouille in a movie theater. He can’t remember a movie experience before then. His most vivid…
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The Maurer the merrier
The gosh-golly geniality in Luke Maurer is genuine, disarming, pleasing. It’s a side the mod- est-to-the-marrow Loyola Academy junior trotted out last weekend at the boys swimming and diving state…
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Feb Four
An Associated Press panel of Illinois sportswriters ranks high school girls basketball teams throughout each season. It publishes the top-10 vote getters each time, plus others receiving votes. Where was…
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Beaming
A gymnast’s routine on the balance beam usually lasts 90 seconds. People typically spend more time than that brushing their teeth in the morning. New Trier High School senior gymnast…
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Performing arts a SNAP for Fox
A 7-year-old Pamela Fox sifts through albums left behind by Grandma Ida, who had moved to California. She sits in the basement at her home in Cincinnati, checking out a…
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Ageless camp counselor
He runs around and around at one end of a soccer pitch before every New Trier High School varsity girls soccer match in the springtime, camping under corner kicks, jumping…
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