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Ruth C. Nissen
Ruth C. Nissen was 16 years old when she graduated from high school in Chicago. Two years later she earned a degree at Wright Junior College (now Wilbur Wright College) in Chicago. She would spend the...
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Constance Goldsmith Addington
Art was a constant in Constance Goldsmith Addington’s life. An avid painter and supporter of the Art Institute of Chicago, Addington died peacefully at her home in Lake Forest on July 31. She was 84....
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Marcia McConnell Nolan
Marcia McConnell Nolan Talented pianist and former Lake Forest High School prom queen Marcia McConnell Nolan, a lifelong Lake Forest resident and a parishioner at Church of St. Mary in her hometown,...
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Honoring a Local Legend
John H. Bryan Jr. In Chicago and throughout the country, former Sara Lee Corporation CEO John H. Bryan Jr. is being remembered for an enduring legacy as a philanthropist and patron to the arts. The...
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Mary Cashen Metcalf
Mary Cashen Metcalf Mary Cashen Metcalf (nee McKinney), of Lake Forest, a former business teacher at Lake Forest High School and business manager at elementary schools in North Chicago and Evanston,...
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Eugene “Gene” Frank Sikorovsky
Eugene “Gene” Frank Sikorovsky Eugene “Gene” Frank Sikorovsky, a retired general counsel, accomplished violinist and supporter of many non-profit and community endeavors, died at his home in Lake...
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Alison Courtney Buck
Alison Courtney Buck Alison Courtney Buck, a talented and creative Lake Forest Country Day School graduate, died recently at the age of 44. The daughter of Raymond and Barbara Buck, Alison was born in...
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Lake Forest resident Carl Thomas Sommers, who served as CEO of Ruprecht Company for 50 years before retiring, died on August 21. He was 79. Born to Thomas and Irene (nee Dyzinski) Sommers in Chicago,...
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Harold Marshall Morrison
Harold Marshall Morrison Harold Marshall Morrison, was born on February 21, 1932, in Alice Home in Lake Forest and passed away peacefully at home in Lake Forest on November 11, 2018. Harold spent his...
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Maureen Jagier Skinner
Maureen Jagier Skinner, with daughters Shannon and Meghan. Photo: Nan Stein Maureen Jagier Skinner—an accomplished news anchor-reporter in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for many years before returning to...
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Former TV Anchor Skinner Lifted Spirits with Her …
Maureen Jagier Skinner It was a Maureen Skinner thing. A radio station would play an Elton John song. She’d turn the volume up on the car radio. She’d then sing along, at the top of her lungs, while...
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Peter Roy Carney
Peter Roy Carney Former Lake Forest Academy Board Member and Superior Graphite Company Chairman Peter Roy Carney died on January 11, in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 87. Peter was born in Chicago on July...
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Former commodities trader and longtime Lake Forest resident Thomas Henry Ritter died on January 23, after living with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 74. Mr. Ritter was a husband, dad and pop-pop...
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A Bank Officer and a Gentleman
Philip W.K. Sweet Jr. Mr. Philip W. K. Sweet Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northern Trust Corp., who was a longtime leader in civic affairs in Chicago, passed away...
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Remembering Nancy Hughes
Nancy Hughes in front of the John & Nancy Hughes Theater. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR Beloved longtime Lake Forest resident, mother, grandmother, and friend to many Nancy L. Hughes died on...
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May We Never Forget
Fritzie Fritzshall. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS STRONG Holocaust survivor and social activist Fritzie Fritzshall died June 19 at the age of 91. Frtizshall survived the death camps to become a leading voice...
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An Enduring Legacy
Dr. Joanne Smith continued to serve as President and CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab while also undergoing cancer treatment. She died last week. She changed lives. She changed the definition of...
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Remembering Geoffrey Atkins
BY DAVID A. F. SWEET An unbeatable racquets champion who held the world title for 18 years straight, Geoffrey Willoughby Thomas Atkins—who died last month at 94—was the Roger Federer of the sport:...
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A Lawyer’s Lawyer, Bar None
Remembering the life of Highland Park attorney Donald Lubin. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR Dentons Senior Counsel Linda Chaplik Harris hoped for one thing whenever she’d drive esteemed colleague Donald G....
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