Preschooler beats the odds of fatal liver disease

To the outside eye, Jack Benjamin is a typical 3½-year-old towhead. His pants display traces of preschool paint and a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. A display of knights and a dragon at Evanston Public Library fascinates him. Although Jack now enjoys a normal childhood, when he was …Read More

• Retired Evanston firefighter in right place to save another

  Dennis “Magoo” McGuigan retired last year as an Evanston firefighter. Seems he wasn’t quite done helping people out of trouble. As a fireman and paramedic for 30 years, he received two honorary awards for helping children in life-threatening emergencies. At 10:30 a.m. Friday, he did …Read More

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