PALMER — The City of Palmer recognized several community members for their dedication to making the area a better place to live during the annual Celebrate Palmer public picnic and
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Cameron Krutwig came into our lives with a Final Four roar, a baby-faced Loyola freshman who with his dancing-bear post moves and boyish exuberance became perhaps the most magnetic and lovable thing about the Ramblers’ improbable 2018 glory. Soon-to-be centenarian nuns not included, of course. ‘‘The highest of the high, man,’’ he recalled Tuesday. ‘‘We played in front of 60,000 people, 70,000 people. There’s nothing like it.’’ Three years later, Krutwig, a 22-year-old senior, is going out with the deafening silence of an empty gym. ‘‘It’s obviously not the same,’’ he said. Krutwig isn’t the best college player to lace ’em up in Chicago, but not many have seen and done more. He has gone from being a part of one of the great Cinderella stories of all time to amid the challenges of a pandemic leading the Ramblers (15-3) to their best record through 18 games in 55 years. By the time he’s finish