One of interior designer Frank Ponterio’s clients is an avid golf fan. The client bought a used private jet, a Cessna Citation CJ2+, earlier this year, with the hope of…
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The Good News Bears
Chicago Bears tight end Zach Miller and his wife, Kristen, share a chair in their living room in Lincolnshire. They are cuddling for a camera during a photo shoot, a…
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Legends In Our Midst
Marian Phelps Pawlick, sitting in her magnificent Lake Bluff home near Crab Tree Farm on an August afternoon, glances at a list of past Local Legends honorees. It had been…
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High Hoops
Lake Forest High School girls basketball coach Kyle Wilhelm recently had some super news to share with one of his seniors, captain Audrey Kaus. It’s after the regular season this…
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Puppy Love
A small mixed-breed dog named Gabriella cries next to an abandoned building in Chicago on a Halloween night. A neighbor calls 311, triggering a response from Chicago Animal Care and…
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Birth Of A Philanthropist
An 8-year-old Richard J Stephenson is confused. He and other members of his family in Sheridan, Indiana, are at a Presbyterian church for an event to raise funds. The parish…
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Ace Reporter
Peter Elliott was going to be an NFL wide receiver. Hands down. Nobody in the fourth grade caught as many passes as he did during recesses at Everett Elementary in…
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Court Appeal
Geese honked above the tennis courts. A train’s horn blared, drowning out the clattering it had made to announce its arrival. Catchy pop music—serving as entertainment for spectators and players…
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Fine Ryne
That didn’t take very long. The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society named Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandberg its “Local Legend” in 2017—only a year after the Major League Baseball Hall…
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Run, Isabella, Run!
Isabella Marsico was 2 years old when a virus attacked her lungs. It meant a one-month stay in the intensive care unit at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago—and it wasn’t…
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