Bill McLean

A Star Was Born-And Died Too Young

ROSS AND NANCY Friedman don’t just think about their late son, Gregory Paul Friedman, every day. “I think about him every minute,” Ross says. “Every second,” Nancy insists. Time will never heal the Lake Forest couple’s grief, after Greg, 27, died a week after taking a seemingly adulterated dose of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA)/Molly that was

Sweet, Not Sour

Erika Hlavacek was 5 when her eyes tripled in size during an impromptu visit to the cockpit before a flight to Disney World. “I was overwhelmed and thrilled,” recalls Hlavacek, who lives in Wilmette with her husband, Jeff, and their children, Francesca, 13, and Antonio, 12. “Right after entering, I asked the three uniformed men

Spotlight on Kindness

PICTURE A LIGHTHOUSE. There it stands, a tower of strength and comfort, tall and firm and reliable. See it? Good. Need a light, be it atop calm waters or troubled waters? It’ll deliver, unwaveringly. “A lighthouse,” Lake Forest author Steve Pemberton says, “is the most selfless structure, one that has never needed technology. It’s there

Road Warrior

The most impactful words a young Pat McKillen ever heard from his mother, Diane, at home in Tower Lakes weren’t, “Go to your room.” Nor were they, “Eat your vegetables.” They were, “Did you hear that?” “My mom liked to listen to music in our house when I was growing up,” recalls McKillen, a 2006

Earnest Abe

Abe “A.J.” Goldsmith has never been a fan of making a New Year’s resolution. His sound thinking for having such an indifference to the annual promise: Why wait until the first day of each year to resolve to do something when today—or any day—would be as good as, or even better than, January 1? Good

Hawyard and Upward

Rock star. Wimbledon champion. Lawyer. Transactional lawyer, specifically. Bob Hayward, the youngster, envisioned all kinds of careers while growing up in Barrington Hills and playing three years of varsity tennis at Barrington High School (Class of 1990). But the vocation that ended up luring him more than the others was the one that required, more

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