(Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via Associaied Press)Yes, but what exactly is this Loyola University Chicago? It’s that if you walk through a silent gumdrop of a gym, 22-year-old Joseph J. Gentile Arena, you might yearn to take a bleacher seat for a game night no matter how it impacted your spine. Joseph J. Gentile (1923-2011), the arena namesake, earned a wealth of descriptions from his widow, Carol, all of them vivid. Carol used to ask him jokingly if he ran “the Joseph J. Gentile Chrysler dealership, or the Joseph J. Gentile charitable organization.” Each year, he took a batch of students from his beloved high school, St. Ignatius, to Wrigley Field for the Cubs. “Oh my gosh,” Carol Gentile said.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2018 20:48 UTC