Flying Under the Radar: Memories spark massive response for fish and chips
So I just shelved what I was going to write about this week in favor of a developing story. No, this is much bigger than the Blackhawks winning the Stanley...
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Flying under the radar: A cross-border confession
I have a deep, personal secret that I'd like to finally reveal. For the last couple of years I have kept this to myself and shared it only with immediate...
Flying under the radar: Stevenson’s 50th year continues to be golden
Since the odds of another Illinois high school winning state championships in football, boys basketball, girls tennis doubles, mathematics, Science Olympiad, girls water polo and boys gymnastics in the same...
Flying under the radar: Hollywood treasure discovered at local HS boosts fame factor
So there was a great story posted on ChicagoTribune.com recently about the original screenplay for one of the most memorable movies from the 1980s turning up during on office move...
Flying under the radar: Tough acts to follow in Stevenson’s culture of success
You'd have to think that one of the toughest local jobs to have right now is head coach and manager of Stevenson High School's varsity baseball team. Talk about pressure...
Flying under the radar: acting ‘Sooner’ than later in campus outrage response
Nine seconds of video – that's the short length of a now infamous recording that has rocked a major college campus, sparked a response from the White House press secretary...
Flying Under the Radar: Marshall Fields and the Sting, a perfect Chicago throwback combo
Without even knowing it, I was riding the nostalgia train a couple of times last weekend – stopping in places offering visual reminders of things that I as well as...
Flying Under the Radar: ‘Beast Mode’ approach to better snow removal
Snow blowers droning, metal shovels scraping icy pavement, tires spinning on slick streets – sounds like the post-blizzard fun of 2015 hasn't quite leveled-off yet since Super Bowl Sunday (I...
Flying Under the Radar: The clock is ticking on end-of-year giving
It was a strange number ringing my cell phone a couple months ago that I hadn't seen before. As I was loading my youth soccer player and his backpack full...
Flying Under the Radar: The show won’t go on, but everyone’s talking about it
There's an expression that goes, "there's no such thing as bad publicity." The thinking is, even if people are talking about something because of a bad reason, that's a good...