Professional baseball fans in the 1990s knew all about Hal Morris.
A first baseman in the decade, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds, the left-handed-hitting Morris helped the Reds capture the 1990 World Series championship in his first season with the…
Professional baseball fans in the 1990s knew all about Hal Morris.
A first baseman in the decade, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds, the left-handed-hitting Morris helped the Reds capture the…
The best way to shop is to shop local, and this holiday season that’s truer than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting small businesses since March—forcing some to close for…
LAKE FOREST/LAKE BLUFF
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Chamber “Holiday Stroll” in Market Square
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“It’s A Wonderful Life,” downtown Lake Bluff lflbchamber.com
HIGHLAND PARK
DECEMBER 3
“Keep the Cheer Here!” Holiday Celebration…
Tom Cruise’s character in the 1983 movie Risky Business, Joel Goodsen, ate fries in a scene shot at Shelton’s Ravinia Grill in Highland Park. The diner closed in 1993.
An…
As supergroups go, it’s hard to imagine one cooler or better suited for that title than the Chicago quintet known as The Flat Five. Consisting of longtime Evanston resident Nora…
When artist Jaclyn Mednicov makes art, she seeks to stop time. From nature and changing seasons to special keepsakes or everyday objects, it is the concept of movement and transitions…
As a once middle school social studies teacher, Gerry Lekas used to spend a lot of time in the library looking at books. He always thought it would be cool…
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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,…
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…
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…
My feet hurt. My mind churns.
Behold a new regular walker’s reality in this nascent COVID-19 Age. Painful and blissful, with every step.
I approach a neighbor walking a dog…
Fish need water.
Sports journalists need insightful thoughts and reactions from athletes and coaches and admin- istrators.
We never thank them enough for helping us enliven our pages. Thank you,…
How fine were the feats of The North Shore Weekend-area athletes in 2019?
North Shore Country Day School’s boys soccer team finished fourth at the Class 1A state tournament—and just…
Sneakers squeak-squeak-squeak atop the hardwood. A basketball bounces. A referee’s whistle chirps. A basketball clangs off the rim.
It’s not the sweetest combination of sounds, but it’s the haphazard symphony…
Emmett Burnside paced New Trier High School’s boys basketball team in a trio of statistics in a home game last week.
Two were conventional. The 6-foot-7 senior pulled down nine…
That mad-about-basketball math department at Lake Forest was “sum”thing else last winter.
A good chunk of its faculty members—about half, according to math teacher Kyle Wilhelm — showed up faithfully…
