Connie Payton here to stay Ex-Bear's wife to attend Walter's Run Saturday.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2006 | by Ahern, Sheila

Byline: Sheila Ahern Daily Herald Staff Writer Chicago Bears great Walter Payton will always belong to the city of Chicago. His family, though, will always belong to the suburbs. Payton's wife, Connie, and their children, Brittney and Jarrett, have lived in Arlington Heights and South Barrington.

Today, with the kids out of the house, Connie is living in Inverness. Brittney just started another year at DePaul University and Jarrett is following his own professional football dream. Since Walter's death, Connie Payton has raised millions of dollars for cancer research and has pushed for organ donation throughout the state. "I can't imagine really leaving the area," she said about the Chicago suburbs. "We have a history here." The Paytons first moved...