So Happy Together
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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People
A Banker And A Gentleman
Mr. Philip W. K. Sweet Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northern Trust Corp., who was a longtime leader in civic affairs in Chicago, passed…
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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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In Memorium
Barry Joseph Carroll, 74, of Lake Forest, and East Chop, Martha’s Vineyard, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 23, 2018, after a brief illness. Born on January 22, 1944, in…
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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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Love Story
She was just 14, and he was 18, when they met and began a love story that might have ended when legendary dancer and actor Patrick Swayze died at age…
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Pageant Power
When the 25 or so contestants take the stage to perform various talents late this summer at the fifth annual “I Am Me” special needs pageant, the young woman in…
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Need For Speed
Steve McQueen had his Mustang, Burt Reynolds his Trans Am, and Bond is back with his Aston Martin. And in his own way Lake Forrest Ferrari dealer Rick Mancuso has…
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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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Safety First
Five years ago, Lake Forest’s Kristin Wildman was brainstorming with Gorton Community Center’s former executive director Brenda Dick about how to keep the young children, who visited the beloved Drop-In…
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