Bill McLean

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.

FRONT AND CENTER

Bob Apter was a pass-first, shoot-second hockey center when his adult league team needed him to be a shoot-often skater in a game decades ago. So, he acquiesced, pummeling the puck past a goaltender seven times. The score stood Apter 7, Opposing Team 3 when Apter, a true-to-his-word guy, exited the rink in the middle

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

Longtime Lake Forest resident Bob Crawford is downright engaging for a reason. Make that, 17 reasons. That was the number of times he and his family moved before he graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia. Seventeen. And he was a minority—a white lad attending predominantly Black and Hispanic schools—at many of his academic stops.

O’ER THE PEN

We asked Lake Bluff author/speaker/possibility thinker Kathryn Haydon—who grew up in Wilmette and Wheaton and majored in Spanish and Latin American Literature at Northwestern University—to look back at 2023 with one eye and look ahead to 2024 with the other. We then let her focus, with both eyes, on things in the present. Haydon’s latest

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