Good Morning Vietnam
Taking the Army’s offer of officer candidate school was an easy choice at the time for Michael Duffy. Now a Wilmette resident, then he was a draftee making less than…
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Lucy in the Sky
Forget any of the many goals Lucy Murray scored for New Trier High School’s girls lacrosse teams in four seasons. Forget any of her oodles of assists, too. For Trevians…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rachel Wills
Smiling and bright in a periwinkle blue T-shirt and jeans, Rachel Wills looks surprisingly fresh for someone who just finished the grueling 200-mile Dirty Kanza gravel bike race in Kansas…
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Pint-Sized Gardeners
It’s been raining all day, but inside the learning center upstairs at Chalet in Wilmette, a paper plate sunshine smiles down on a group of wiggly children. Gathered in a…
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The Case of the Missing Key
This caper opens like any other whodunit. Officer Engels has misplaced the key to the Gross Point jail cell. Whatever will he do? Find it, of course. But not without…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rick Sweitzer
The day before Wilmette-based PolarExplorers’s 100th polar expedition was to start, founder Rick Sweitzer was feeling the usual mix of anticipatory thrill and hyper-focused sobriety that always precedes his journeys….
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Hadley 2.0
When 55-year-old educator William A. Hadley lost his sight due to a detached retina in 1915, the challenges he faced were enormous. One by one, Hadley met them, teaching himself…
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Strolling Through Time
By the time the Louis Gillson family moved into the Colonial Revival house in east Wilmette that they would occupy for many years, they were already established as one of…
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Preview Pop
The Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital co-chairs are excited to be kicking off the third annual Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show this month. Held on Thursday, May…
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