Bill McLean

RICHARD THE LIGHTHEARTED

Nothing would thrill Grammy Award-winning songwriter and former Lake Bluffian Richard Marx more than learning the bulk of the audience at his March 1 concert at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre had lost most of their voice (from singing along and screaming joyfully) and suffered a sore oblique muscle (from guffawing too hard, too often). “As they

NIFTY NONAGENARIAN

Ever met Italian-born Lidia Lattanzi Ragusi, the 90-year-old woman who started volunteering at the Winnetka Thrift Shop around the time the movie Rocky hit the theaters in the mid-1970s? You should. The longtime Winnetkan is part treasure, part comedian, part storyteller extraordinaire, and all kinds of fun. She’s not as sharp as a tack; she’s

SIGNED, SEALED, AND … DETERMINED

SOON AFTER KNOWING he wanted to serve as a Navy SEAL, Corbin Cornelison watched a documentary about the special operations force and got his hands on a SEALs book at the local bookstore. He also rented the movie Navy SEALs, starring Charlie Sheen, and figured he’d better start getting in tip-top shape, so he grabbed

HORSES ABOUND

From 2015 to 2021, the figurative hole in Ashlee LeCompte Lazic’s heart grew larger with each year. A horse had been the comforting constant for the Barrington Hills native, beginning with her first pony, Bonnie, and later with Trixie, an off the track thoroughbred mare who lived to 31 and had joined Lazic at Michigan’s

GEORGIA—AND READERS—ON HER MIND

Columnist and Wilmette resident Georgia Garvey likened an interminable respiratory infection to a drawn-out Allman Brothers song. She also transported her readers to summery days when the trill of an ice cream truck meant anybody with working taste buds turned into Olympic sprinters dashing to a sound. And, in another column, written near Thanksgiving 2020,

CHEF’S LIS

Vanderbilt University English degree holder Lis Settimi became an entrepreneur— and a geometrician of sorts—in 2020. That was the year, after all, when her path in the food industry had come full circle. Settimi served as a bakery assistant at a specialty grocery store back in her days at Brookfield East High School in Wisconsin.

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