Bill McLean

When Christina Lepri-Stringer was 9 and the only child actor in the Steppenwolf Theatre production The Wolf Lullaby, she had to learn to speak with an Australian accent. Years later, as a Boston College Theater/ English double major, the Chicago native interned at the Theatre Royal in Bath, England, where she worked with actors in

A professional baseball scout arrives at a high school game and focuses his attention on the home team’s star pitcher but becomes smitten with the shortstop instead. Jason Cannon, a native of Visalia, California, experienced a similar shift in the literary field as he researched Orval Overall, a Visalia High School graduate who helped the

As a New Trier Township High School (NTHS) freshman in 1979, Stephanie Nykaza, nee Allans, made the junior varsity girls’ tennis team. That was no small feat in sneakers. A JV netter at NTHS—packed perennially with ace players, then and now—could rout varsity members of tennis teams at most other schools. “I liked tennis,” Nykaza,

Virtually every day from July 2021 to July 2022, Lake Bluff author/speaker/possibility thinker Kathryn Haydon visited an outdoor house of worship. Her sandy pew was a spot on the edge of Lake Michigan. This vast body of water served as the daily, delightfully changeable celebrant—minus the vestments. “We who sit, a soundless congregation; the lake,