Jim Lovell will forever be associated with his travels to space, but his impact on Earth – notably in his adopted hometown of Lake Forest – is eliciting many positive memories from his friends and

Jim Lovell died Friday at the age of 97, but for years he called north suburban Lake Forest home and forged a deep connection to Chicago's Adler Planetarium.

Astronaut Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 fame died at 97; his leadership is celebrated for averting a lunar mission disaster, marking an end to an era of early US space exploration.