FORMER MILLIKIN University basketball sharpshooter Joe Guin netted nine feathery three-pointers— in 10 attempts—in his 35-point game against Wabash College in 1986. It still stands as a Big Blue program…
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LARGER THAN LIFE
THE LAKE FOREST SHOP celebrated its 100th anniversary in dazzling fashion last September. It was an occasion for owner Ellen Stirling to thank her long-time customers, and an opportunity for…
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WELL DONE, BALLYHOO
IT’S A MONDAY or a Tuesday in Lake Forest. Casually dressed diners enter Sophia Steak on Laurel Avenue at night, glance at the surroundings, and are immediately struck by the…
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POSITIVITY PERSONIFIED
CHRIS BRENNAN’S wheelchair sits in a corner of his garage in Lake Forest. It hasn’t rolled an inch in three years. “You could call that a victory,” a smiling Brennan,…
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Get Your Scottish Up
IF A MASSIVE assemblage of bagpipers, shrilling the hymn “Amazing Grace” atop a vast expanse of grassland after a moment of silence at sunset, doesn’t give you head-to-toe chills, check…
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Rourke All Revved Up on Life
ROB ROURKE would spray perfume and deliver immediate compliments to his suddenly aromatic customers as a fragrance counter salesman in his college summer days along the East Coast. Rourke—now 54…
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Bases Covered
WIFFLE BALL PITCHES have defied physics, confounded and tantalized and frozen batters, and often elicited bouts of laughter from all but the bewildered one wielding a plastic bat at the…
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Golden Times – Past And Present
THE HISTORY CENTER is turning 50 and several golden opportunities to share local history are underway. Landscape designers working in Lake Forest in the 1920s were more than artists plying their…
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Board Willing
THE ANNUAL Baby Alumni Party for infants born at Lake Forest Hospital drew 50 attendees in its first year, 1948, two years after the hospital’s Women’s Board—the event’s host—was born….
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Family Matters
IT HAS NEVER BEEN difficult for former record-setting Deer Path Middle School wrestler Brian Dacy to pin down exactly what’s allimportant to him. Family, pure and simple. As a son….
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