BLOOMINGTON – In the late 1980s, while he attended Notre Dame law school, Kevin Warren often noted a Sears and Roebuck building he could see from the highway driving west toward Chicago.
Years later, driving by it with his family, he’d remember fondly the excitement he and his siblings felt when their parents would pull out a Sears catalogue and ask the children to pick their birthday presents. But as years passed, Sears contracted, franchises closed and buildings like the one Warren remembered were abandoned, it became in the future Big Ten commissioner’s mind a metaphor:
Change touches everything, even that which you love.