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Last Kiss: A widower's essay becomes his daughter's short film
By Donald Westlake
Apr 20, 2018 10:16 AM - Donald Westlake of Wheaton shares his thoughts on surviving the death of his spouse... "Part of my process of getting through the pain was writing an essay entitled 'Through the Pane.' My daughter, Dawn Westlake, a filmmaker, produced a seven-minute, award-winning film based on my essay that has been shown in more than 40 film festivals all over the world."
Constable: Poet from Rolling Meadows making waves

Apr 19, 2018 12:11 PM - Even as a Rolling Meadows teenager writing poems at Fremd High School in the 1990s, Faisal Mohyuddin took on subjects far beyond his suburban world. Now, the teacher and poet is compiling prestigious awards and has a book-signing Sunday for his first collection, "The Displaced Children of Displaced Children."
Embracing a widower's grief: I reread her letters, I played her favorite songs
By Dennis F. Depcik
Apr 20, 2018 10:21 AM - In his first-person account of coping with the death of his wife, Dennis Depcik of Buffalo Grove says: It's easy to run away from grief, but to stop hurting, I needed to embrace it.
A Buffalo Grove widower's cry: Just Let Me Talk
By Dennis F. Depcik
Apr 20, 2018 10:20 AM - In the fourth installment of the Last Kiss series on coping with the death of a spouse, widower Dennis Depcik provides a first-person account: "I know I've been guilty of this myself, but it doesn't stop me from feeling the way I do, it doesn't stop me from feeling abandoned when someone doesn't ask me how I'm doing."
Last Kiss: A barber, his widow and their life of passions
By John Lampinen
Apr 20, 2018 10:19 AM - The second Last Kiss installment of the story of Patty & Corey Hindes, the Arlington Heights barber killed in a motorcycle crash 19 month ago: "Their love story was torrid and wholehearted. He found in her acceptance, a beautiful and smart woman who shared his sense of humor and sentimentality. She found in him thrills and confidence, someone who could break her out of her misgivings and uncertainty."
Constable: Computer mandate means Amita doctor who's delivered thousands must stop

Apr 14, 2018 8:01 PM - At 75, Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson of Hoffman Estates figures he's delivered more babies in the Northwest suburbs than any other obstetrician. But his lack of computer skills is putting an end to that.
This 3-year-old has 'a sparkle' in her heart: The world's smallest mechanical heart valve
Lindsey Bever
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 AM - Sadie Rutenberg was born with a gaping hole between the two sides of her heart. The groundbreaking Masters HP 15-mm mechanical heart valve saved her.
A beautiful day, a motorcycle crash, and a barber's wife becomes a widow
By John Lampinen
Apr 20, 2018 9:09 AM - Last Kiss: On a beautiful September day in 2016, Patty Hindes watched her husband, Arlington Heights barber Corey Hindes, drive off for an afternoon motorcycle ride just as he had countless times before. Seven minutes later, he was in a crash that ended his life. And forever changed hers. She had been a wife. Suddenly she became a widow. This is the first of four parts of the story of the rest of her life, the first of an eight-day series of reports on how we heal from the death of a spouse.
California to Florida: Wheeling resident bikes to support fellow veterans
By Chacour Koop
Apr 12, 2018 6:15 AM - Despite suffering from epilepsy, a Navy veteran from Wheeling is bicycling across the country to support fellow veterans.
How does a church carry on without its founder?
By Lauren Rohr
Apr 11, 2018 8:21 PM - Losing a founding pastor is tough for any church, but it's even more challenging when the timing is unexpected like at Willow Creek Community Church, whose founding pastor Bill Hybels stepped down Tuesday amid allegations of misconduct.

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