Bill McLean

Don’t take work home. Failing to heed such advice could be hazardous to your health or impede those seeking a balanced life. Near the end of his 1991 to 1998 run portraying Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Goodman Theatre in Chicago, playwright/ actor/director Tom Mula often hauled his work home unwittingly. “Getting to play

In 1972, at age 9, Lake Forest native David Sweet nearly drowned—inside an Atlanta Braves bat-boy uniform. Picture a slim boy wearing a pop-up tent tucked inside a pair of billowy baseball pants. “The uniform was at least three sizes too big,” recalls a smiling Sweet, who was told his late parents, Philip and Nancy,

Rich Cohen’s one-on-one basketball battles with his father, Herb, atop the family’s Glencoe driveway in the mid-1980s rarely ended well for Rich. Future author Rich was 17 in 1985. Herb was in his early 50s. In his new book, When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season (Random House, 232 pages), Rich Cohen, now

Annie McAveeney often asks acquaintances to imagine. It’s a highly effective visual exercise. It’s also jolting and harrowing, given the subject matter that concerns McAveeney every day. “Imagine being a couch-hopping child staying in a garage in the middle of the winter and then waking up with no access to a shower,” she says. “Imagine,”

Stephanie Knight served as the primary organizer of the T-Rex Sue unveiling at the Field Museum in 2000. Sue—who was named after explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, not by a mama and papa dinosaur—was hatched 67 million years ago, give or take a few centuries. The focal point of the event for which Knight