John kirk biography evanston il
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk for a decade has told the story of how he nearly drowned when he was 16 while sailboating on Lake Michigan and how his rescue by the Coast Guard inspired him to pursue a career in public service.
The story is sprinkled with attention-grabbing details, but there are inconsistencies in Kirk&#;s statements that suggest parts of his real-life drama have been embellished, a Tribune review has found.
In the most recent instance, the year-old North Shore congressman told a boating magazine that he stood on his overturned sailboat and watched the sun set, when in fact he was rescued in midafternoon on June 15,
Kirk also has said he swam up to a mile in degree water and that he was rescued with his body temperature hovering two degrees from death. Those declarations are questionable, based on interviews with an eyewitness and medical experts.
Basic elements of Kirk&#;s story are not in dispute. He did capsize his boat, was pulled from the water by the Coast Guard and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. He said any inconsistencies in news accounts or his own words are minor and do not diminish the significance of the traumatic, life-changing experience.
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By J. L. Lee
And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.
&#; Nora Roberts
&#;There? You lived there?&#; My son looked at me in disbelief and then looked again at the photos of the year-old home in Evanston, Illinois.
&#;I did&#;for a very bad few months,&#; I answered. As I looked at the photos of that old home, the genealogist in me wondered about its former residents.
Why now?
I blame this week&#;s 52 Ancestors prompt: Earliest. Thanks to that word, the memories of my first weeks at Northwestern University were suddenly screaming for attention. I guess it makes sense, in a way. Out of all the places I&#;ve lived, that house was built at the earliest time. I knew it might have some issues before I moved in, but nothing could have prepared me for the first time I saw it.
Seriously&#;not one single thing.
It was moving day, and I was beyond excited. I was starting graduate school at my dream university! It was a huge day, to be sure.
That house, though. The walls couldn&#;t talk, but the landlord could. Early that afternoon, tequila sunrise firmly in hand, he approached my dad and told him that he was the first parent ever who didn&#;t
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