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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Well ‘Red’
WALTER WILDMAN drove an American Red Cross ambulance in France during World War I. He was a Quaker. Quakers are to wars what trees are to loggers. They stand in…
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Feeling the Churn
PAIGE NEWHOUSE WAS CONFUSED. She also felt tired after sleeping for 16 to 17 hours, when she should have felt wide awake. Ten years ago, after returning home to Lake…
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Ultra Goal-Setter
TWO YEARS AGO, Erich Loacker’s knee-jerk reaction to his wife’s seemingly audacious goal came from his mouth. He laughed. The exchange took place in their Lake Forest kitchen. “My husband…
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En Pointe & On Point
LAKE FOREST Dance Academy alumna Hannah Franzen took her first dance class at the age of 11. That is not late to the party—that is showing up for a centennial…
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Big Cat’s Wildcat
THE LAST THING former Chicago Bears offensive tackle James “Big Cat” Williams wanted to be along a high school football sideline last fall was a distraction. That’s akin to Paul…
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Selling Time
The svelte iteration of Norm from the television sitcom Cheers, a regular at Teddy O’Brian’s in Highwood is a huge fan of the game show Jeopardy! He watches it regularly…
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Pivot 101
The puck was supposed to drop at the start of a men’s hockey playoff game at Lake Forest College in mid-March. It never left a referee’s hand. Foresters junior runner,…
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Sweet Tale
Nancy Sweet had never been far from a book. Her husband, Phil Sweet, read three newspapers every day. Their son David, during his formative years in Lake Forest, often welcomed…
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Crusader Jack
Only kids and the milk man knocked on the back door at the Schuler house in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. So when Paul Humke—Whitefish Bay High School freshman algebra teacher “Mr….
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