IF IT’S RAINING LETTERS—as in written letters, tucked inside envelopes—it must be either field hockey season or girls lacrosse season at Lake Forest High School. Cat Catanzaro coaches both varsity…
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Jared The Gem
A TYPICAL SOPHOMORE in high school crams for geometry tests, begs for a one-hour-later curfew, and smiles at a DMV camera for the first time. Perhaps Jared Zenni, while attending…
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Moving Off The Mat
A REFEREE GRABS a wrestler’s right hand and raises it. A round of applause rings out in the arena, giving the victor his immediate, audible “medal.” “There aren’t many things…
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Sailing Through Life
THE MOST INTERESTING MAN in Lake Forest has to be Robert Biddle V—and not just because the highly competitive 48-year-old father of four whacks two-handed forehands and two-handed backhands…
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Award-Winning Construction
KARL SPEKTOR’S 21-year-old company, MOD Construction, and 11-year-old son, Brooklyn, have something in common: Both are “batting” 1.000. “Brooklyn,” Spektor insists, “has never had a bad day in his…
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Chase Banks On Patience
HAD A FOOTBALL BUDDY not convinced Chase Bahr to eat a salad outside Foodstuffs in Lake Forest one day last summer, Bahr wouldn’t have enjoyed a chance meeting with a…
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Wildlife Fearless Life
PETER CRAWFORD unleashes another infectious laugh in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the 2017 Lake Forest High School graduate is a senior at Eckerd College. A journalist calling from Illinois has…
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Picture Perfect
AN ASSIGNMENT in the second grade was an easy one for Valerie Gonzalez decades ago. Too easy. The task: take home a piece a paper and draw what you want…
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Buoyed With Perspective
IN MID-DECEMBER, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High School…
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Amateur Elite
IN 2015, WHILE ON summer vacation in Neenah, Wisconsin, Steve Worth awoke on a postcard day and decided to run three miles. The Lake Forest resident and tech company executive…
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