It’s probably safe to assume no one learned how to sail like a 9-year-old Karen Curtiss did on a lake in Michigan decades ago—all by herself, on a Sunfish, with a Sailing 101 book.
And Karen’s mother, Margaret, fully endorsed…
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It’s not exactly a beauty pageant, but potential buyers in this summer’s hot real estate market on the North Shore need to dress up their offers. This week, The North…
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Remember your first sip of coffee?
Nick Yehle certainly does, and he bets that he scrunched up his face more than you did.
“I was a freshman in high school,”…
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A thing is the sum of its parts. If the parts are stellar, the whole can be a beautiful thing. Take Seven Layer Salad, for example. An American creation of…
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Mike McIntyre was in a business class at the University of Indiana when the professor assigned each student to come up with a six-word life motto.
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When Frank Windes, Winnetka Village Engineer from 1898 to 1940, helped found the Winnetka Historical Society in 1932, he probably didn’t imagine the village would become something of a… -
Fashionable Chicagoans (and a few mobsters, according to local history books) have been packing their steamer trunks and taking the Milwaukee and Northern Railroad railway north to this little respite…
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Since the late 19th century, sophisticated Chicagoans and North Shore residents have been retreating to the pristine, Mediterranean-blue waters of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for much-needed fresh air, breathtaking natural beauty,…
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Had you been near Watts Park’s Bronco Field in Glencoe and closed your eyes earlier this month, you would’ve sworn you had stumbled upon a fireworks show.
Intermittent waves of…
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Nothing says Spring more brightly than fresh asparagus. And giving the vegetable exotic flair, the flavors in this salad add even more vibrancy. The recipe inspiration is all Yotam Ottolenghi,…
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Had Tom Gullen not attended Winnetka Hockey Club’s inaugural WarriorFest in late August, it would have been akin to Lollapalooza without music.
Or an auto show without autos.
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The coach who guided New Trier Township High School’s boys tennis team to another state championship last month—32 years after he won the state singles title as a Trevians junior…
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You’ve probably seen them on the road—they often travel in packs, clad in brightly colored Lycra—zipping along in formation, some closely paired, others in looser proximity, but all heading in…
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Had you been near Watts Park’s Bronco Field in Glencoe and closed your eyes earlier this month, you would’ve sworn you had stumbled upon a fireworks show.
Intermittent waves of…
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Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
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Alexandre Cotard, The Racquet Club of Lake Bluff ’s (RCLB) Junior Program Director and Head Tennis Professional, coaches young athletes with a focus on character-building, care, and self-esteem.
“For me,…
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Connor Clark got cut from the Lake Forest High School freshman boys basketball team in 2016.
“I’d anticipated making it,” Clark, now a senior, recalls.
But the Lake Bluff resident…
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Northwestern University women’s lacrosse midfielder Brennan Dwyer left her painting of a pink castle out to dry in the Dwyer house in Winnetka last month.
Her father, Loyola Academy girls…
