Dream Dies, but Will Success? Star-Studded Motivation Seminar Tries to Shed Its Failed Predecessor

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Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer

If full-page newspaper ads and direct mail fliers for Peter Lowe's Success 1998 give you a sense of deja vu, it is because its highly touted imitator American Dream 1998 failed earlier this year.

Local investors in American Dream 1998 grafted much of the format of Floridian Peter Lowe's star-studded motivational and spiritual seminars.

But the American Dream's April 23 date at the Rosemont Horizon was canceled as investors cited an investor dispute and low ticket sales.

Peter Lowe, a master's candidate in theological studies at Wheaton College, is bringing his Success 1998 to the United Center on …