The laugh, the gentleness, the calm- throughout our interview, he would erupt into the best, the deepest belly laugh I’ve ever heard; as if joy were welling up so powerfully deep inside that it just had to be released. He laughed a lot and spoke with great wisdom.
“Both of my parents were born in the Chicago area. I was born at Passavant Hospital, (now Northwestern Hospital). When I was little, we lived in the Rogers Park area, and when I was four, we moved to Highland Park, where I was brought