Bill McLean

Buoyed With Perspective

IN MID-DECEMBER, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High School senior Andrew Clemmensen had not let the pandemic discourage him in the least. Thoughts of a brave water boy from another generation— his late grandfather

A Faithful Leader

Whenever Kenneth A. Mines is anywhere near his grandsons Chase, 13, and Dylan, 11, the former civil rights attorney and forever civil rights leader must think, “Life does not get much better than this.” Their presence brings pure joy to the 91-year-old Mines, a Highland Park resident since 1972, and a man who has vivid

Amateur Elite

IN 2015, WHILE ON summer vacation in Neenah, Wisconsin, Steve Worth awoke on a postcard day and decided to run three miles. The Lake Forest resident and tech company executive completed the jog. “Barely,” recalls Worth, now 50. “That was the year of my half-hearted attempts to get healthier and in better shape. That was

A Circuitous Route from Iraq to Illinois

Good thing the taxicab driver that smuggled Dr. Rami Taha out of war-torn Iraq stashed Taha’s duffel bag near the cab’s engine. Had the hired smuggler simply placed the luggage in the trunk, Baghdad-born Taha—now a Lake Forest resident and infectious disease physician with practicing privileges at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville—would have been

Taste of Argyle

Bill O’Donnell’s heaven on earth is a cozy porch seat at his Blue Ash Farm cabin in Argyle, Wisconsin. It’s where the former longtime Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader and current Deer Park denizen likes to sip coffee early in the morning, view nature, and hear its inhabitants produce their soothing choruses. “That,” the 56-year-old

Well ‘Red’

WALTER WILDMAN drove an American Red Cross ambulance in France during World War I. He was a Quaker. Quakers are to wars what trees are to loggers. They stand in opposition. “But he wanted to serve his country,” says Walter’s grandson Jamie Wildman. “So that’s what he did.” Grandpa Walter died in 1974. Jamie Wildman,

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