Bill McLean

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

Moving Off The Mat

A REFEREE GRABS a wrestler’s right hand and raises it. A round of applause rings out in the arena, giving the victor his immediate, audible “medal.” “There aren’t many things better than that in wrestling,” says Bennett Duggan, a 2021 Lake Forest High School graduate who experienced the raised hand 33 times in 35 matches

With Equal Pleasure

As a teen living in Winnetka, Ryan O’Donnell practically pulled a hamstring muscle each time his mother/cooking instructor, Beth, started to welcome eight cooking students into the O’Donnell household for a French culinary class. “I made sure I was out of there before Mom began teaching,” a chuckling O’Donnell recalls. “When she taught, I golfed.”

Family Flanagan

A North Shore homeowner seeks to sell and move to the city. Another sets out to pull up stakes in Chicago and relocate to, say, Winnetka. An ideal first step for each would be to contact The Flanagan Group, a concierge-level service @properties outfit based in Winnetka. Brokers Annie and Maddie Flanagan—Annie is Maddie’s

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