She Can Dance-And Teach And Inspire
The Wondrous Whirlwind from Winnetka, also known as Jenny Oelerich, has to sit still, finally. It’s a recent midafternoon at the Community House in Winnetka, where the Winnetka native and…
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Sunday Breakfast
Hope Of Joe
Joe Torgerson was born in Hong Kong, moved to Taiwan at the age of 12, attended colleges in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Deerfield, worked and studied in Missouri, returned to…
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Firsel and Foremost
When Karen Firsel was an associate producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, she came up with an idea that she hoped would punctuate the latter part of the…
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A Real Corky
Charles “Corky” Leighton was a strapping lad while growing up in Toledo, Ohio. He had reached the height of six feet before the end of seventh grade, a veritable Gulliver…
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No One-Hit Wonder
Glen Roberts sits inside a Starbucks in his hometown of Barrington. It’s mid-afternoon. Earlier, in Rosemont, the former AbbVie director of international distribution had practiced with members of his senior…
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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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Mr. Wilmette
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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Simply Watkins
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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Gorton’s Go-To
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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Beaming With Pride
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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