The Spirit of 67
Traci Franksen was 8, maybe 9, when she started walking around her house in tiny Waterloo, Wisconsin, with a book in one hand and a classroom globe in the other….
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Cartoons
Blade Winner
Had Tom Gullen not attended Winnetka Hockey Club’s inaugural WarriorFest in late August, it would have been akin to Lollapalooza without music. Or an auto show without autos. The 63-year-old…
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Grand Gand
Decorated pastry chef and longtime Riverwoods resident Gale Gand could tell you stories about the time she made Carol Burnett laugh, about the time Aretha Franklin raved about her peach…
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Fresh Success
There’s Pat Fitzgerald, the former Northwestern University linebacker and current NU football coach, and there’s Patrick Fitzgerald, the creator and a co-owner of the online grocery delivery service Fresh Midwest….
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Hunger Game
Some nights, when a young Alice Moody was supposed to be sleeping at home in St. Louis but was reading a book under the covers instead, she’d have to release…
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Laser-Focused
It was Phillip Ross’s turn to move people, to bedazzle them, through his art. Finally. The year was 2014. Ross had essentially executed the visions of others, namely bosses and…
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Today’s Jon Sawyer
The compliment that changed Jonathon Sawyer’s life was as ringing as a dull thud. Sawyer was an engineering major at the University of Dayton, midway through his junior year, and…
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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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Sunday Breakfast: Dr. Jeremy Warner
As a precocious five-year-old in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeremy Warner wanted to learn to ski. His dad agreed, but on one condition. “I had to put my skis on…
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