Bill McLean

Q IS FOR QUEST

Clients at Quest Performance Training (Quest) in Lake Bluff have no choice but to exercise mere seconds after entering the facility. But only if you believe that receiving a high five is a form of exercise. Quest owner Quone “Coach Q” Edmonds delivers the emphatic greeting to one and all. The elevated slap usually triggers

THE THORN WORDS

Independent bookstores were faced with challenges in 2013, with the increased use of Kindle and at the ravenous feet of Amazon. Or so it seemed. Assyrian-American and Lake Bluff resident Eleanor Thorn— the bookkeeper at the Lake Forest Book Store for a year and a half before buying it from Sue Boucher nearly 10 years

’81 SKI-DUDE

Barrington native Mark Zito spent each summer in high school on a boat in Wisconsin. He vacationed and worked in the Badger State, with the boat doubling as his seasonal home. His late father, Jack Zito, had bought a Door County marina in 1968. “I’d return to Barrington, in time for the start of school

TEAMING UP

FORMER MILLIKIN University basketball sharpshooter Joe Guin netted nine feathery three-pointers— in 10 attempts—in his 35-point game against Wabash College in 1986. It still stands as a Big Blue program record. Now a co-founder of Compass Financial Partners (CFP), a Northwestern Mutual private client group that moved from Vernon Hills to Lake Forest in December,

LARGER THAN LIFE

THE LAKE FOREST SHOP celebrated its 100th anniversary in dazzling fashion last September. It was an occasion for owner Ellen Stirling to thank her long-time customers, and an opportunity for the community to show its appreciation to the woman who had ushered this iconic institution into its next century. Sadly, Stirling passed away after a

RISING AND SHINING AND CARING

After working for more than 30 years in the field of physical therapy— as a clinician, a researcher, and a professor—longtime Highland Park resident Gayatri Mathur felt it was time for a career change. She needed to do something, that would turn each of her rise-and-shine moments into an exercise in vitality. “I wanted to

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