Mike Vorel began life in second place.
Lauren elbowed past her younger brother and emerged first. Mike arrived two minutes later, and Alyssa arrived two minutes after that.
The Vorels lived in Homer Glen, and passed to their youngest son a love of Chicago sports teams, particularly the Bears, Bulls and White Sox. They were agnostic about college football — or at least about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish — so Mike was considered “kind of weird or different” for latching onto the team after seeing “Rudy” at an impressionable age.
Mike Vorel had found a passion.