John Hughes and the Soundtracks to Our Lives

August 7, 2009 – John Hughes, who passed away on Thursday at age 59, graduated Glenbrook North High School in suburban Illinois in the spring of 1968.I graduated high school in 1988.He should not have known what it was really like for people like me to walk those tricky halls and hang out in those polarized parking lots two decades and half a country away from his "Shermer" (really, Northbrook), Illinois. But he knew. …
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