If there were a board game created to map Ray Kracik’s life, his playing piece would most certainly be a 1930 Model A Ford—one with snappy, red-and-black striped upholstery.
“Ha!” laughs Kracik. “That car has certainly been with me for…
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Emma Weaver, with a soccer ball at her feet, stopped abruptly in a home match last weekend in chilly Northfield. The New Trier High School junior forward/midfielder then cut sharply,…
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If there were a board game created to map Ray Kracik’s life, his playing piece would most certainly be a 1930 Model A Ford—one with snappy, red-and-black striped upholstery.
“Ha!”…
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Highwood’s evening gourmet market is not your ordinary farmer’s market. For the past 11 years, the Wednesday festival has brought together live music, restaurants, food trucks, and vendors of many…
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When 55-year-old educator William A. Hadley lost his sight due to a detached retina in 1915, the challenges he faced were enormous. One by one, Hadley met them, teaching himself…
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Oleksyi Vyshyvanyuk knows exactly what to say when a teacher looks at his surname on the first day of classes and stammers while attempting to pronounce it during roll call….
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Just days before the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Gurnee home for her Loverly Cottage boutique, Juliet Abeille is a blur of happy motion. “This will be the main…
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Sometimes, the less you know about the inner workings of a hotel restaurant the better. Over the years, I’ve peppered hotel servers with questions about the provenance of some of…
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By the time the Louis Gillson family moved into the Colonial Revival house in east Wilmette that they would occupy for many years, they were already established as one of…
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Emma Weaver, with a soccer ball at her feet, stopped abruptly in a home match last weekend in chilly Northfield. The New Trier High School junior forward/midfielder then cut sharply,…
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Oleksyi Vyshyvanyuk knows exactly what to say when a teacher looks at his surname on the first day of classes and stammers while attempting to pronounce it during roll call….
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A golf ball resting in a favorable position on a golf course is deemed a good lie.
Jamie Fischer could relate to the ball. She sat near driving ranges and…
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Colin Heath’s holiday gift to his grandmother Mary last winter did not need to be wrapped.
A card from the New Trier High School junior volleyball player did not accompany…
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One of the sharpest shooters in men’s basketball history at the University of Chicago helped an organization deter a different kind of shooter two summers ago.
Noah Karras—a University of…
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MaryGrace King had just won a 25-yard back- stroke race when she started to sprint toward her orange beach towel. Mom Sandi was holding it for her six-year-old daughter.
Mom…
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Could you blame Jack Howard’s club volleyball teammates for their disruptive behavior in a theater during a musical last fall?
The Vernon Hills-based Adversity Adidas 18 spikers had clustered themselves…
