Rotary Club of Wilmette member Don Olson’s vivid memories of Prince Philip’s visit to the Chicago area 39 years ago range from the Duke of Edinburgh’s tiny Scotland Yard security…
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Punt, Pass, And Kick In
To Julie Williams, who grew up in the tiny downstate village of Fisher, near Champaign, a Friday home football game under the lights was never just another high school event….
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Hooked On Architecture
The late Norman Fisher had no problem with his daughter Julie’s plea to wear GUESS jeans in the 1980s. “Go get them,” he’d tell the youngest of his two daughters….
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Hope Springs Eternal
To Muncie, Indiana, native Nick Swan, Mr. Dingledine was more than a Muncie Symphony Orchestra oboist and middle school band director with an alliterative surname. Much more. “He taught me…
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Dutch Treat
Their love story began in a German III class at Loyola Academy in the 1970s. Pete was a junior at the private, Catholic college preparatory school in Wilmette. Ellen was…
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Corks For A Cause
Bill Bucklew needed help earlier this year. The Wilmette resident and tireless advocate for Parkinson’s disease research and awareness was struggling to come up with a local fundraising event for…
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Ameteur Elite
In 2015, while on summer vacation in Neenah, Wisconsin, Steve Worth awoke on a postcard day and decided to run three miles. The Lake Forest resident and tech company executive…
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What Drives Drivas
Nick Drivas might own the distinction for being the youngest busboy ever. He was 5—perhaps fresh off learning the difference between a triangle and a rectangle in kindergarten—when he first…
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Angel In The Details
Dina Lewis’s daughter, Hannah, was 5 when she stood ankle-deep in the Atlantic Ocean during a vacation in Bermuda several years ago. The child clutched her long hair and wrung…
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Mother’s Way
A young Amy Newman was shopping in a department store with her mother, Pam, when Pam and a salesclerk engaged in a lengthy conversation decades ago. The friendly chat ended….
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