As Game 6 of the World Series approaches, Frankfort's Jeff Modjeski has found a relative sense of calm. A Cubs fan for roughly half the time the team has had...
I blame the Cubs for the failure I am about to describe to you. When I received the "gift," I accepted it, because it came with a sleeve of Titleist...
Everybody wants the slogan. But let's get this straight: Tinley Park dropped $85,000 on Roger Brook's company not for help with a slogan, but help with a brand. A brand...
After the ugliest weekend ever in American politics, perhaps there is one thing on which we all — Democrat, Republican, undecided, future Canadian citizens — can agree. We need a...
In the fall of 2005, a serenity the likes of which I'd not previously seen in his 40-something oft-irritated years on the planet settled over my brother. With a beatific...
Richard Schickel, who grew up in Thornton and graduated from Thornwood High School, retired not quite three years ago after 33 years with the Internal Revenue Service. Since then, he's...
Occasionally, former Mount Greenwood resident Jim McCormick feels badly for the women he discovers staring longingly at his seat. On his recumbent tricycle. "I always feel guilty when I'm so...
Twenty-five minutes before the scheduled kickoff of his team's Saturday game with Chicago Vocational, Rich East Athletic Director Mike Laneve stood in the school's music room listening to the national...
Just past 6:30 on a recent weekday morning, Mike DiStefano heard a familiar thud outside the back door of his Burbank restaurant, the Dugout. "Can you excuse me?" he said,...
Though he'd fastidiously tended the grounds at the University Golf Club and Conference Center for most of the previous 12 years, when Marty Smith returned to the course eight weeks...