Bill McLean

HITS GALORE

Terence Blanchard had a pair of audacious dreams while growing up in New Orleans. He’d be a hard-hitting linebacker in the National Football League and a serial hitmaker in the field of jazz. He’d recover fumbles and run in for scores in the fall and winter months and compose scores for movies in the offseason.

TOUCHDOWN, GOOD CITIZENS!

A year after Barrington High School (BHS) opened its doors for the first time in 1949, parents of the school’s football players huddled and formed the BHS Quarterback Club (BHS QB Club). The club sought to capture and build on the enthusiasm and interest in high school football and to get the community behind the

BUCKS IN A ROW

If you grew up in Iowa in the 80’s, you practically knew all about walking beans before you knew anything about crawling between a beanbag and a sturdier piece of den furniture. Ann Rieder was born in Ames, Iowa, and grew up on a Hawkeye State farm 50 miles due west in Scranton. “Most farm

COAL MINER’S SON—AND GRANDSON

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. “It shaped my personality,” the 85-year-old Crawford says of his peripatetic childhood. Crawford’s personality is a delightfully large

PRICELESS MULA

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

BEHIND THE CANVAS

Katie Brickman of Lake Forest is an artist and mother of Louise and Powell, with husband Joe. A native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Brickman—who once worked for the iconic Kate Spade—paints primarily with acrylic on a whitewashed wood board. Here are a few of her favorite things: ALL-TIME FAVORITE ARTISTEllsworth Kelly. NORTH SHORE RESTAURANTAlex’s Washington

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