Charles Larimer:  

June 30, 2018 After 43 years, we left Chicago to move to Denver, CO to be closer to my older son, his wife, and their two children (my wonderful grandkids.) My younger son will start high school in Denver in the fall. I loved Chicago, but time for something new. The hardest part was leaving my friends and bandmates in Radium Swing Band and Radium Isotope Band. After I get settled in Denver, I plan to make some new music friends and get in a band again. John Wimmer lives just west of Denver, and I hope we can do some jamming. I'm still working as an actuary, and plan to do so for a few more years. We are still unpacking, so I don't have Denver stories beyond that. April 2, 2017 I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1975 with a degree in math, and immediately moved to Chicago. I've lived in the Chicago area ever since. Career-wise, I have worked as an actuary, starting out at CNA Insurance located in downtown Chicago, then Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. I then was a partner at a small actuarial consulting firm Bob Gold & Associates for about 15 years, before we sold our practice to E&Y. I then took some time off, then worked at a couple of other places at an actuary. I set up my own firm C F Larimer Consulting, LLC in 2007. My office was originally in an old factory building in Chicago, converted to office space. A true luxury in Chicago: my commute was only a 15 minute walk to my office. (In December 2015 we moved to the South Loop of Chicago, and my office is now in the attic of our townhouse.) My older son Eric, born in 1981, is married to Amelia and living in Golden, CO. My granddaughter Anita was born in April 2015. I married Suzanne in 2000, and we have a son born in 2004. Jake attends the British School of Chicago. His teachers are all British. For seven years I rode on Ragbrai, and spent part of that time traveling with Dave Lundblad and Dirk Lohry (old friends from Sioux City). I've kept up my musical work from Sioux City -quirk - I met a guy in Chicago whose parents ran "Sioux City Music and Dance" in the Commerce Building where I took piano and guitar lessons as a kid. My main instrument now is mandolin. I play in a few bands, including the Radium Swing Band and Radium Isotope Band, where we play mostly gypsy jazz, but also New Orleans music and Bossas. We have a website at and a Facebook page (search "Radium Swing Band" on Facebook, and on Google for our web site.) Notable accomplishment: I edited a book of Civil War letters between my great great grandparents titled "Love & Valor - The Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emel...Expand for more