Kim Bosse’s hand went straight up. She was a fourth grader at the time, attending a school in Northbrook, when her teacher had asked the class if anyone would like…
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Pen & Gerry
Gerry Lekas and his wife, Noreen, enter a movie theater in 1982. Night Shift, directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Henry Winkler, and Shelley Long, is about to…
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Sunday Best
Interesting and unique insights—along with occasional funny comments—never get old. Our “Sunday Breakfast” subjects spoke volumes in 2021. We learned. We contemplated. We laughed. It’s a good time to revisit…
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Stick-To-Itiveness
Field hockey’s pull was too strong to resist for Ellie Bisceglia. Even in the face of a seemingly mightier force—the pandemic. It was the summer before the start at the…
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A Christmas Story
Holiday movies have come a long way since the days of Miracle on 34th Street and It’s A Wonderful Life. While they seem to be as plentiful as holiday sales…
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Adventurous To The Gills
Ed Stein, Man of a Thousand Adventures and a fly-fishing aficionado, sits in the spacious, immaculate basement of his home in Highland Park, regaling a first-time visitor with details of…
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Bloch Hearty
Dr. Steven Bloch, the plastic surgeon, is a lot like Steven Bloch, the garden aficionado. But not only because they’re the same person. “I like things to be beautiful,” he…
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Shuttle Rock
Right around the time 90-year-old William Shatner was aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft for a suborbital spaceflight in mid- October, Highland Park High School graduate (Class of 1976) and…
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Oklahoman Better Than Ok
The wooden floor in Aaron Umsted’s bedroom in Oklahoma never had a chance. Especially around Tony Awards time. As a teen growing up in Durant, Oklahoma, Umsted would plop in…
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Organizer Extraordinaire
There’s likely at least one pile, of something, sitting around your home. Thinking of adding a piece of paper, or an item of clothing, or a dish, to it? Be…
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