Bill McLean

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TWO PHONE CALLS, separated by about 24 years, stunned Susan Garrett. Maybe she said, “Who? Me?” each time. Perhaps she thought, “Really? Why me?” each time. Garrett was all set to eat dinner with her family in Lake Forest when she fielded the first call. On the other end was a voice representing the Democratic

The Coming-Of-Age Classic Returns

The late filmmaker and Lake Forest resident John Hughes chose to shoot a movie along the North Shore every other month in the 1980s. Or so it seemed. Sixteen Candles. The Breakfast Club. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. And so on and so on, an assembly line of hits that made popcorn-gobbling teens nod and laugh,

Letter Perfect

IF IT’S RAINING LETTERS—as in written letters, tucked inside envelopes—it must be either field hockey season or girls lacrosse season at Lake Forest High School. Cat Catanzaro coaches both varsity teams. On the eve of each game, following a team huddle, Catanzaro tosses the paperwork skyward and walks away. A drop-themic moment, without a shred

Bullish on Bourbon

Scottie Pippen’s rich baritone is the envy of any DJ looking to land a gig at a smooth jazz radio station. But Pippen didn’t need his deep voice to personify smoothness on basketball courts worldwide during a highly decorated career, gliding his lean, chiseled 6-foot-8 frame as a six-time NBA champion forward for the Chicago

Ace Of Art

All it took for Barrington artist Matt Gabler to return to painting was the itch one day to alter one of his old pieces, the one he created at age 17. The best way to describe the hand painting? “A green blob,” Gabler, now 23, says. Gabler had taken a break from art, in part

Jared The Gem

A TYPICAL SOPHOMORE in high school crams for geometry tests, begs for a one-hour-later curfew, and smiles at a DMV camera for the first time. Perhaps Jared Zenni, while attending Lake Forest High School, experienced all of the above nine years ago. But he pulled off something unusual, something singular, shortly after blowing out 16

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