MaryGrace King had just won a 25-yard back- stroke race when she started to sprint toward her orange beach towel. Mom Sandi was holding it for her six-year-old daughter. Mom…
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Warbling Rambler
Could you blame Jack Howard’s club volleyball teammates for their disruptive behavior in a theater during a musical last fall? The Vernon Hills-based Adversity Adidas 18 spikers had clustered themselves…
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Heart, health, Hansen drive FSG mission
All eyes were on a 23-year-old Bill Hansen, a first-year teacher on his first day of a summer Head Start program circa 1980.The wide orbs belonged to the preschool children…
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Soaring
Leia Spaniak’s first experience on a horse did not end well. She was four years old, on her aunt’s farm in Wisconsin. Little Leia fell off the animal. No serious…
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Coming up aces at Z Center
The condition of the three tennis courts dismayed Ali Barnett. She drove past them in New York, some 10 years ago. She was a sophomore in high school and already…
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OB Won
It was supposed to be a big day for a little guy atop his backyard ice rink. A pair of laced-up skates enveloped Eamon O’Brien’s feet for the first time….
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Fun & Names
A man named Lake Speed raced stock cars for a living. Gene Tenace (rhymes with “tennis”) played baseball for four Major League Baseball teams from 1969-1983, and Pete Rose (not…
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Curator’s palette holds healing power
Art and cancer. Cancer and art. The two have had a connection in the life of Caren Helene Rudman since she stared at a blank canvas in her art studio…
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Dandy Debut
Ilya Mondrowski had to pick a famous person and sketch him or her. That was the assignment last year for his art class at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park….
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Treys Bien
They could have passed for extras on a break from the movie Animal House. Or the flick Gladiator. Many of the Loyola Academy boys basket- ball student fans had donned…
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