Rick Stadel (left) waits at Midway Airport with siblings Kathy Brooks and Carmen Andrea for their newfound sister, Lois Baumann, to arrive on a flight from Florida. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Rick Stadel and his newfound sister Lois Baumann share an emotional embrace at Midway Airport on Saturday. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Rick Stadel (left) and his newfound sister Lois Baumann rush to greet each other at Midway Airport. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Lois Baumann (facing camera) smiles with joy as she sees her siblings for the first time as she comes off of the concourse at Midway Airport. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Rick Stadel answers his cell phone to hear the voice of his sister Lois Baumann calling from the airliner to say that she has landed at Midway Airport. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Rick Stadel is overcome with emotion after hugging his newfound sister Lois Baumann (left). | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Four of the five newly united siblings get acquainted at Midway Airport on Saturday. From left are Carmen Andrea, Lois Baumann, Kathy Brooks and Rick Stadel. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Siblings Lois Baumann and Rick Stadel walk hand in hand as do Carmen Andrea and Kathy Brooks as they leave Midway Airport for a celebration at the Stadel home in Boulder Hill. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Newly united siblings (from left) Carmen Andrea, Kathy Brooks, Lois Baumann and Rick Stadel pose for a portrait in the parking garage at Midway Airport before leaving for the Stadel home in Boulder Hill. | Jon Cunningham~For Sun-Times Media
Rick Stadel is a Baby Boomer in a unique situation. While the rest of us graying Americans are facing the prospect of losing siblings, this Montgomery man is finding them. Lots of them — thanks, most recently, to the new state law that allows adult …
