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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Dandy Delaney
In her varsity basketball debut as a freshman at Lake Forest High School in 2013, Delaney Williams—with the ball in her possession—took four steps on the court. One problem: The…
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Ring Leader
Decades ago, the homecoming theme of “Holiday” stirred the creative students at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. One of the students was Jeffrey Meeuwsen, now 48…
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Ground Ball
Lake Forest Lacrosse Association (LFLA) boys surrounded Wes Janeck on a field last spring. The LFLA alumnus and 2015 Lake Forest High School graduate had returned to his roots —…
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Wyatt’s Chirp
It might go down as one of the more unusual rallying cries in sports. But Lake Forest High School senior swimmer Wyatt Foss chose it—“April showers bring May flowers”—and exhorted…
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Standing Tall
A football lands in Christian Braun’s hands on October 21, 2016. Players around the Lake Forest High School senior linebacker stop, unsure if Braun had cleanly intercepted the pass from…
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Icing on the Career
It is an early November afternoon, and Lake Forest High School (LFHS) senior Meghan McGrail enters her home in Lake Bluff after school, suddenly realizing she is a former competitive…
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