When Jessica Allen, 34, and Will Layden, 32, began working for Barack Obama, neither one envisioned finding a life partner as a result.
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Chicago to Sydney and back, for love
When Mary Kate Marchesi and Chris Franz first met at work in late 2016, both were living in Chicago. Marchesi, 29 and Franz, 32, were each working for Morningstar, a […]
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Rescued offshore and saved for each other
When Megan Murnyak and Phil Winter decided to meet at Farmhouse in Evanston for their first date in the summer of 2021, his lack of hair struck Murnyak as endearing. […]
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A second chance at love and marriage
On May 31, 1981, Kim Hager and Chris Siavelis were married at the VFW in Hillside, Illinois. She was 18 and he was 19. One year later, they were divorced. […]
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Distance, and a medical emergency, made their hearts grow fonder
“Neither one of us was in a hurry to get married,” explained Robby Feldman. The couple met through mutual friends in 2015, at a Halloween party hosted by Feldman and […]
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They’re not do-si-dodos: These seniors have a lifetime of moves
Sandie Bryant, 72, makes the calls softly and clearly: extend the tag, switch the wave, pass the ocean, flip the diamond, ferris wheel, mini busy. It’s a language unto itself, […]
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They Do: Reunited (after three decades) and it feels so good
Allie Payne and Clement Bell first met decades ago, as young teenagers. “He was the younger brother of some friends of mine,” Payne said. Although Payne and Bell are the […]
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Dancing at the altar: ‘Easily the best day of my life!’
Although Katharine Friedrich and Christian Harkna grew up in the same Evanston neighborhood, went to the same high school and attended the same university, it wasn’t until after college that […]
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They do: From lab partners to life partners
Julia Freeman and Blaise Filippini met as juniors at Evanston Township High School, while they were both taking two of the same classes. But it was in Teresa Granito’s AP […]
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Celebration was nontraditionally traditional – and ‘comprehensively perfect’
When Evan McCarthy asked Emily Boylan out for their first date, her friends cautioned her against it. The two had met online, in what Boylan described as “the very modern […]