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ALL REVVED UP CONSUMMATE FAMILY MAN AND DIEHARD CAR BUFF ROB ROURKE—A LAKE FOREST RESIDENT SINCE 2006 AND A LONGTIME BUSINESS CONSULTANT— THRIVES AS AN EVER-POSITIVE, FULL-SPEED-AHEAD MAN. BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Rob Rourke would spray perfume and deliver immediate compliments to his suddenly aromatic customers as a fragrance counter salesman in his college summer days along the East Coast. Rourke—now 54 years old, a Lake Forest resident since 2006, a father of three sons, and in his 26th year with L.E.K. Consulting—got paid to flash a blinding smile above his resplendent threads and make shoppers feel, and smell, like a million bucks. Rourke, these days, regularly finds himself on the receiving end of compliments, thanks in part to his immaculate, headyanking, bright-blue car, a 1967 Firebird/ Royal Bobcat, a vehicle he’d bought for $2,600 at the age of … 13. It has been restored twice, the second time professionally, and it has rolled for 79,000-plus miles. “I was returning to my car after shopping at Heinen’s Grocery Store in Lake Bluff one day, when I noticed a note on my Firebird’s windshield,” Rourke recalls. Continued on PG 5
Rob Rourke at his home in Lake Forest. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES GUSTIN
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