A Spirited Collaboration
Between the ages of 10 and 18, Jenny Solberg often climbed trees in her neighbors’ yards in the fall months and shook, shook, shook the limbs. The now 34-year-old Jenny…
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by Bill McLean •
Between the ages of 10 and 18, Jenny Solberg often climbed trees in her neighbors’ yards in the fall months and shook, shook, shook the limbs. The now 34-year-old Jenny…
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by Bill McLean •
Nigeria native Tamuriat Olabode spent her first night in America shivering in a cousin’s Chicago basement that doubled as her bedroom. The Muslim immigrant was 15, owned only the clothes…
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by Mitch Hurst •
Four years ago, it was challenging for young Davin Lee to adapt to his new environment on the North Shore when his family moved here from New Jersey. In 4th…
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by Bill McLean •
Stephen King, Wes Craven … Jake Jarvi. I can hear a giggling Jarvi, humble and stunned, now: My name, next to those names? Please. You’re kidding! Why? Because it’s warranted….
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by Mitch Hurst •
Eighteen years ago, Diane Deemer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Deemer had been a marathoner and triathlete, and while she’s had to give up some of those pursuits since her…
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by Allison Duncan •
Brigitte Nettesheim was just the third student from her high school—in Warsaw, a small West Central Illinois town—to be accepted to West Point, the United States Military Academy. Her guidance…
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by Bill McLean •
Brandon Myers was 6 when his family had to cut short a vacation in Hawaii. His maternal grandfather had died of a heart attack in Tennessee some 30 years ago….
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by Mitch Hurst •
He is a man of a million stories. You tend to collect a lot of them when you’re Derrick “Suede” Stout and you’ve been in the music business for nearly…
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by Bill McLean •
Josh Wolff and his big brother, Ben, found themselves transfixed by Saturday Night Live sketches as youngsters growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Especially any that starred either Dana…
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by Mitch Hurst •
It’s something of a coincidence that both Rebecca Halpern and Charlie Trotter grew up on the North Shore—Halpern in Winnetka, and Trotter in Wilmette. While decades apart in age (Halpern…
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