Matthew Broderick was ailing. The actor who portrayed the titular character in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was in no shape to perform in a scene, set in…
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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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Vital Gathering
Kevin Joseph Smith Burke’s life ended tragically at the age of 23 in the summer of 2017, but the Wilmette native’s memory lives on through a local blood drive held…
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The Year of Swimming Expeditiously
The year 1979 will be on the minds of Highland Park High School’s boys swimming and diving team members at this weekend’s sectional in the home water. That was when…
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Hallmark of Hope
Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) of Illinois Chairman Jamie Baisley stood in a back yard in Evanston not too long ago, observing sheer joy emanating from teenagers and their proud…
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Scott great! Giller family greater
The distance between the Giller home in Wilmette and Fonseca Martial Arts in Wilmette is shorter than a mile. Scott Giller walked it one day with daughter Jillian, his eldest…
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GLASA more than half full
Jacque Rogers rapped a pair of inflatable thundersticks repeatedly against a portion of the glass at one end of Lake Forest College’s ice arena last month. Many of Rogers’ LFC…
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Daring to Go: Diver John Ervin
Some of the older guys on New Trier High School’s swimming and diving team call freshman diver John Ervin “Diver”.Or “The Good Freshman” (no relation to The Good Wife, the…
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Geo Joe
It is safe to assume a mountain isn’t Joe Remus’s favorite landform. The Deer Path Middle School sixth-grader suffered a broken left leg while skiing down Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin…
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Business Teacher Bullish on Theater
The Schaumburg High School senior gymnast wanted to hit the stage in the late 1970s, not the mats. He aimed to land his first role, not a dismount off the…
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