Ella Joy Won can’t stop laughing in the video. Eight years old at the time and playing Heads Up!—the game that Ellen DeGeneres plays on her TV show—Ella Joy had…
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Engendering Respect
Zoe Crecos enters the room. She sees boys everywhere, more than two dozen. She also sees a male coach here, a male coach there. Not one other girl in sight….
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Moving Mountains
One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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Hear Their Names
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County CEO Cesilie Price has been a “second mother” to a girl for nearly a decade. Price receives a “Happy Mother’s Day!” text message…
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Jet Set
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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