The Belushi Benches
I grew up in Wheaton, Illinois - a Western suburb of Chicago. We moved into a new house on Plamondon Court when I was five months old. Wheaton has few claims to fame. It is the home of Wheaton College, a Christian school so conservative that dancing was banned at campus events - unless it was square dancing. This ban was lifted in 2003, with the statement that dancing was allowed, "as long as students use caution and good judgment and avoid any behavior which may be immodest, sinfully erotic, or harmfully violent." So... there's that. Wheaton Central, or Wheaton Community High School as it was known before more high schools were built, has at least four famous alumni: Edwin Hubble, Red Grange, Bob Woodward*, and John Belushi. That list may provide some balance to the college. John graduated in 1967, appeared in the first airing of Saturday Night on October 11, 1975, and married his high school sweetheart, Judy Ja...