Remember pay phones? Bruce “Buzzy” Bertucci, 74, certainly does, and one of his favorite Highwood stories features the one that stood across the street from the restaurant Sandy’s, a man…
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Lady of the Dance
Bridget McGovern’s posture is ramrod straight, straighter than a wooden ruler positioned vertically in a student’s backpack. The fifth grader from Lake Forest also exudes composure, with an air of…
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Mozart of Madras
Ravinia Festival President and CEO Jeffrey Haydon has seen the 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire twice. The number of times he’s listened to tracks from the film, including the vigorous “Jai…
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Pickle Me Kauri
Pickleball continues to sweep the nation, and perhaps no one enjoys hanging on to one of the “bristles” more than Kauri McKendry. “It’s incredible, the number of people signing up…
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Bears Care
The Chicago Bears and a Glencoe woman have something wonderful in common. Both care about the Highland Park community as it heals in the aftermath of the mass shooting at…
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Viva Andrew Hotz
Andrew Hotz looked at his tablemates under the Memphis sky one night this year and couldn’t believe his good fortune. A Winnetkan since 2020 and a part-time resident of Los…
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A Scholar And A Gentleman
The golf bug bit Tom Kearney at Beverly Country Club in Chicago more than six decades ago. He was 11 and a first-year caddie, making $3.75 per loop. Or about…
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Notably Ellie
The compliment could have qualified as the understatement of the year. It ended up doubling as a career launcher. “You’re good at this,” a woman told ellie Nottoli, after Nottoli,…
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Feels Like Home
He stood outside his New York office on Sundays, greeting people for up to six hours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—a Russian-Empire-born…
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A Lawyer’s Lawyer, Bar None
Dentons Senior Counsel Linda Chaplik Harris hoped for one thing whenever she’d drive esteemed colleague Donald G. Lubin from their law office in Chicago to his home in Highland Park….
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