Bill McLean

Fillies Fantastic

Barrington High School girls’ basketball coach Babbi Barreiro raised eyebrows and elicited more than a few perplexed looks when she presented team t-shirts to her Fillies for the 2021-2022 season. The motto “Be For Each Other” didn’t adorn the front of the shirt. Nor did it stretch across the back as a nameplate does. Barreiro

Still Sparkling

Brad Gamss must have heard a chuckle or two when he opened Rahl Jewelers in Hanover Park on, of all dates, April 1, 1982. That same store—which moved to its current 3,000-square-foot location in Hoffman Estates in 2007—turned 40 on the first day of April this year. No foolin.’ “Still going strong,” says the amiable

Board Willing

THE ANNUAL Baby Alumni Party for infants born at Lake Forest Hospital drew 50 attendees in its first year, 1948, two years after the hospital’s Women’s Board—the event’s host—was born. More than 2,000 people who had been a part of a blessed event at the hospital showed up at the annual bash in 1997. Parents/former

Fine Results At Refined

Parents have encouraged their kids to do it. Personal trainers often remind their clients to do it. And dogs, desperate to go out for a walk, would bark the same four words to their owners—if only they had the ability to pronounce them. The plea? “Get off the couch.” But Eric Smoot Hemphill—co-owner of Wilmette’s

Family Matters

IT HAS NEVER BEEN difficult for former record-setting Deer Path Middle School wrestler Brian Dacy to pin down exactly what’s allimportant to him. Family, pure and simple. As a son. Or as a sibling. Or as a husband and a father. Or even as the co-founder/CEO of Life Tech, a leading provider of high-tech home

Golfer Par (And Birdie) Excellence

Andrew Vitt was 12 and golfing by himself when he carded his first hole-in-one at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Hole No. 8 swallowed the youngster’s tee shot whole. “I was celebrating near the tee box, all while hoping, at the same time, that someone had seen my ball go in,” Vitt, a Kenilworth

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