Profusion of Inclusion
Three-year-old Chloe Stolman asked the question in the presence of her siblings, 9-year-old Ari and 6-year-old Brooke. “Why can’t Uncle Ira talk?” Chloe queried. The older children each jumped at…
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by Bill McLean •
Three-year-old Chloe Stolman asked the question in the presence of her siblings, 9-year-old Ari and 6-year-old Brooke. “Why can’t Uncle Ira talk?” Chloe queried. The older children each jumped at…
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by Bill McLean •
Did you hear the one about the Civil War veteran from Wilmette who headed to work one day, lunch pail in hand, and went missing for more than 20 years?…
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by Mitch Hurst •
There’s a reason journalists often go on to have successful careers as fiction writers. Both require curiosity, attention to detail, and a desire to spin a good yarn. It helps…
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by Bill McLean •
Julia Watkins was hungry, circa 2000. A Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa at the time, she couldn’t exactly order an entrée at a steakhouse or motor to a drive-thru…
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by Morgan Hogerty •
Fourteen years ago, Nancy and Scott Santi were invited by a Winnetka neighbor to explore an organization they had never heard of—LEARN Charter School Network. The years following that meeting…
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by Bill McLean •
Garrison Keillor got lost in Lake Forest in February 2020. The author, singer, humorist, radio personality, and engaging storyteller couldn’t find his way—on foot—from the Deer Path Inn to the…
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by Jake Jarvi •
With this month’s passing of Ivan Reitman, the director of Ghostbusters, and the recent release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the afternoon I got…
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by Bill McLean •
Avid fisherman Eudell Watts IV has quite a tale for you—but it’s a true one. And it has nothing to do with the length and weight of a largemouth bass….
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by Monica Kass Rogers •
Among the important skills teens gain while in school, learning how to ask is a big one. Not for the car on Saturday night, or a new dress or video…
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by Bill McLean •
Renee Baldwin sits in a squishy, comfortable couch at Libertyville-based Upscale Rummage, the nonprofit re-sale shop she launched at the Montessori School of Lake Forest in 1999. The white couch…
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